SF News Like Airbnb Before It, City Is Coming After Short-Term Rental Site HomeAway The city of San Francisco will be going to court to make sure that homeowners renting units on HomeAway, a short-term rental listing company that also owns Airbnb competitor VRBO, are paying their
SF News Half Of City Hall, Gavin Newsom, And Academy Of Art's Elisa Stephens Show Up To Celebrate Rose Pak's Return As noted Monday, the scheduled return of Rose Pak to San Francisco following an extended medical stay in China was expected to draw a crowd of at least 100 well-wishers and a bus
SF News City Suing Academy Of Art Over Their Problematic Real Estate Empire Perhaps spurred to action by last summer's exhaustive reporting by Forbes on the for-profit school's allegedly shady real estate dealings, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera today filed a lawsuit against the Academy
SF News HA! That Big Verizon Wrap Ad At Embarcadero Center Is Illegal, City Demands Its Removal You know how Verizon and Super Bowl 50 were doing that huge wrap of Four Embarcadero Center over the last two weeks the one that ran into a humorous snafu last week? Some
SF News SF City Attorney Goes After Notorious Landlord Anne Kihagi With Fresh Injunction City Attorney Dennis Herrera has finally had enough with notorious San Francisco landlord Anne Kihagi, filing a motion yesterday for a preliminary injunction against Kihagi in an effort to put an end to
SF News Police Crack Down (Again) On Cocaine-Fueled Excelsior Gambling Clubs It seems like only yesterday that the City Attorney's office announced it would be closing down illegal gambling cafés in the Excelsior. The sweepstakes cafés, which have operated under a legal loophole in
SF News Nevada To Cough Up $400K For Dumping Its Mentally Ill Patients On Us A case that was brought back in 2013 by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, complaining that a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital had systematically put mentally ill people on Greyhound busses to Los Angeles and
SF News Sangiacomo And Trinity Properties Subpeonaed By City In Allegedly Shady Rentals Case Following on a lawsuit filed in August by City Attorney Dennis Herrera against Trinity Properties, Herrera has now subpeonaed documents from Trinity and its leaseholder Lumi Worldwide concerning a block of 16 units
SF News Below-Market Units At Massive Trinity Place Complex Allegedly Being Rented Airbnb-Style The massive Trinity Place development was pushed through the city's bureaucracy over many years, through many fights, by 90-year-old local powerhouse developer Angelo Sangiacomo. When complete it will ultimately contain 1900 units of
SF News SF To Pay Woman Who Was Struck By Muni $11 Million After a City Attorney's office assessment determined that San Francisco had little to no chance of winning a court case against a woman who was permanently disabled after she was struck by a
SF News City Attorney Now Suing Evil Landlord Who's Been Forcing Out Rent-Controlled Tenants A real estate investor who for the last two years has been hellbent on kicking out tenants paying below-market rents in order to re-rent units for more money is now facing a lawsuit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McDonald's At Haight And Stanyan In Big Trouble Over Drug Activity The city attorney is threatening to sue McDonald's over the constant and apparently unchecked drug activity that occurs on the premises and around the restaurant's location at Haight and Stanyan. Per a letter
SF News Landlords Who Evicted Tenants To Make Tourist Lodgings Hit With $276,000 Fine When landlords Darren and Valerie Lee evicted the tenants of 3073-3075 Clay Street nearly a decade ago and decided to turn the units into swanky tourist lodgings, they likely expected to rake in
SF News City Sues Bernal Heights' Kingston Shack 'Gambling Den' City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who last year successfully shuttered underground Excelsior gambling establishment Next Stop Business Center, is once again in crackdown mode. As the Weekly notes, this time his target is Kingston
SF News Ellis Act Payout Law Heads To Ninth Circuit For Appeal City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced late Wednesday that his office would be appealing a federal judge's ruling that struck down the recent San Francisco ordinance requiring large lump-sum payouts to tenants evicted under
SF News Ellis Act Tenant Payouts Ruled Illegal A federal judge has struck down San Francisco's progressive legislation that counteracts the increased use of the Ellis Act to evict longterm tenants, as the Chron and others are reporting. In a ruling
SF News Young MonkeyParking Founder Comes To S.F. To Fight For His Annoying App Last week we were talking about that cease-and-desist order from the City Attorney against those egregious parking apps that allow assholes to auction their public parking spots to other assholes for cash. Well,
SF News San Francisco's Elected Officials Get Raises In July, Here's What They'll Be Making This summer, several of San Francisco's elected officials will get a 2.6 percent raise! Here's what some of the folks you see in the news will be making starting July 1, in
SF News City Attorney Makes Examples Of Two Greedy, Eviction-Happy Landlords Just as that compromise legislation regarding short-term rentals like Airbnb makes its way through Board of Supervisors approvals, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is taking two landlords to task for doing something the new
SF News Illegal Gambling Spot In Excelsior To Close For Good As promised a couple months ago, City Attorney Dennis Herrera has succeeded in shutting down an illegal gambling parlor that accounted for "a hundred-fold increase in police calls" to the Excelsior neighborhood in
SF News Judge, City Attorney Give City College A Break Judge Curtis Karnow of San Francisco Superior Court issued an order Thursday blocking the disaccreditation of City College of San Francisco, which was ordered last July. City Attorney Dennis Herrera has been fighting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants That Bilked Employees Will Pay $2M In Delinquent Healthy SF Surcharges The final tally is in for the dozens of local restaurants being investigated for withholding money earmarked for employee health care. Under City Attorney Dennis Herrera's special enforcement plan, which offered 50 percent
SF News City Attorney May Investigate Twin Peaks Home Collapse On Tuesday we told you about the mysterious, apparently spontaneous collapse of a home at 125 Crown Terrace on Twin Peaks belonging to former Building Inspection Commissioner Mel Murphy, who now serves on
SF News City Attorney To Close Illegal Gambling Cafes In Excelsior City Attorney Dennis Herrera plans on shutting down a reportedly most unsavory Internet Cafe in the Excelsior. Why? Because it's an alleged hotbed of illegal gambling. According to reports, Net Stop is at
SF News City Attorney, Tenant Advocates Fight U.S. Postal Service Over Delivery Rules for SROs Under current U.S. Postal Service procedure, mail carriers aren't obligated to sort and deliver mail to individual occupants in single-room occupancy hotels, using instead a bulk delivery point like a desk clerk.
