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Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Developer Buys Mostly Vacant Live-Work Building on Mid-Market

A Mid-Market building full of affordable studio units that was the subject of a protracted eviction fight in the last decade is now slated to become home to 400 sleeping pods, if a developer gets his way.

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Landlord Now Attempting Mass Ellis Act Eviction At 84-Unit Mid-Market Building

The two-and-a-half-year-old saga of 1049 Market Street continues this week as the landlord, at this point desperate to convert his half-empty residential property into office space, is

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The Latest Chapter In The 1049 Market Saga: New Eviction Notices, Subpeona For Jane Kim

The landlord of 1049 Market Street, the building filled with low-rent live-work units that some tenants have lived in over 15 years, appears to be getting desperate, and is going on

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Tenants At 1049 Market Win Again, Eviction Notices Revoked

The saga of 1049 Market Street continues this week as those new eviction notices we discussed a few weeks ago have been revoked by the landlord, clearly under pressure from the city. Lawyers

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Landlord Once Again Intimidating, Evicting 1049 Market Tenants

Landlord John Gall appears to be doing an end-run in order to empty his property at 1049 Market Street of all its tenants, despite there being dozens of legal, occupied residential units

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Mid-Market Tenants Win Another Reprieve From Eviction

Last we heard about the embattled tenants of 1049 Market Street, the remaining group of them who have not moved of their own accord (it remains unclear just how many there are, but

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Mid-Market Tenants Suing Landlord To Counter Eviction

Remember the case of 1049 Market, where about a hundred people faced eviction all because a percentage of the units were declared illegal and the landlord decided to convert to office? Well, a

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Mass Eviction On Mid-Market Put On Hold Pending Planning Review

In a small victory for tenants' rights, a mass eviction of more than 100 people from 1049 Market Street has been put on hold as the Planning Department looks into the historic

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Jane Kim Steps In To Help Mid-Market Tenants Facing Eviction

Following on yesterday's breaking news about the 100+ people getting evicted from two buildings on Market between 6th and 7th, Supervisor Jane Kim is hoping to get the word out to

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100+ Artists And Students Getting Evicted From Large Mid-Market Building With 'Illegal' Units [Updated]

A building that for almost fifteen years has provided affordable housing to artists, students, and others on a Mid-Market block is getting emptied of tenants in what's likely to be