SF News Evicted Tenants In Expensive Nob Hill TIC At Center Of Court Case Over New Ellis Act Law Remember when we talked about how 1100 Sacramento Street was set to become the city's most expensive TIC ever, and possibly its biggest? And remember how at the time there were apparently 10
SF News Landlord Advocates Sue City Over Ellis Act Legislation Tenant advocates scored a big win this year when a new local ordinance, sponsored by Supervisor David Campos, passed the Board of Supervisors with a veto-proof 9-2 vote, guaranteeing that tenants could no
SF News Last-Minute Negotiations Save Leno's Ellis Act Bill, Maybe As mentioned this morning, Senator Mark Leno hoped to keep his revisions to the 28-year-old Ellis Act alive, and as of late this afternoon it looks like he's done it. The bill that
SF News Realtors' Lobby Helps Quash Anti-Ellis Act Legislation It may not be dead yet, but Senator Mark Leno's bill in the California legislature, which would have required building owners to own a building for at least five years before invoking the
SF News Local Ellis Act Law Dissed By Mayor Lee As State Limits Move Forward A new statewide law that will prevent Ellis Act evictions by flip-happy real estate speculators passed a judiciary committee vote 5-2 and is expected to be heard on the full Senate floor next
SF News Ellis Act Evictions Will Now Cost Landlords A Whole Lot More, Thanks To David Campos The Board of Supervisors last night passed some new legislation, originally proposed by David Campos, that's going to make evicting a tenant under the Ellis Act way more expensive than it previously was.
SF News S.F. Evictions At Their Highest Point Since 2002 Between March 2013 and the end of February 2014, landlords in San Francisco filed 1,977 eviction notices — the most since Kozmo.com was still a thing in 2001. Meanwhile, use of the
SF News Tenant Claims He Was Evicted So Landlord Could Get Into AirBnB Racket Former Russian Hill resident and current Chronicle article subject Chris Butler claims his landlord gave him the boot after nearly ten years in his apartment, in order to rent out two units on
SF News Art Agnos: 'It's All But Over For The Poor In This City' We've said it several times, and now progressive former mayor Art Agnos chimes in for NPR in a national story about how shitty San Francisco's real estate market now is for the middle
SF News Campos Holds Hearing On Ellis Act Evictions; Mayor Ed Lee Gets On Board With Legislation We told you last week that Supervisor David Campos is pushing the City Attorney to draft legislation that would create a greater disincentive to landlords considering Ellis Act evictions. Yesterday Campos held a
SF News Mayor's Office Will Throw Some Cash At S.F. Eviction Prevention Mayor Ed Lee is acknowledging for the first time that there may be a problem with illegal Ellis Act evictions, and this week his office announced they would be tripling the funding for
SF News Latest Ellis Act Evictions Met With Protests, City Hall Support As San Francisco continues to hurt for available rental units and rising rents are pushing out many longtime residents, one family in Nob Hill became the face of the staggering number of Ellis
SF News Chinatown Is The Next Frontier For Ellis Act Evictions One of the last off-the-real-estate-agents-radar bastions of cheap housing in the city looks primed to be the next frontier in the gentrification wars, and that's Chinatown. A new piece in the Examiner highlights
SF News Behold, S.F.'s Most Expensive TIC Ever ... At $100 Million [Heavy sigh] We've got a new record high to share in S.F. evermore ridiculous real estate clusterfuck. It seems that a 33-unit building on Nob Hill is converting from rental to for-sale
SF News Oy, Evictions In S.F. Hit 12-Year High The number of evictions across the city have officially returned to dot-com boom levels not seen since 2001 according to new numbers released by the San Francisco Rent Board. During the period of
SF News Map: S.F. Ellis Act Evictions (1997-2013) Brian Whitty put together a map detailing Ellis Act evictions taking place from 1997 to 2013. The majority of the evictions, predictably, happened in the Castro, the Mission, the Marina, and Potrero Hill.
SF News Renters And TIC Owners Pitted Against Each Other In Current Real Estate Climate We are back, once again, to dot-com-boom levels of Ellis Act evictions, begging the question of whether rent control really exists in any real way. And is there a way to protect longtime
misc The Fake Tales Of San Francisco Contest Like the Arctic Monkeys say: . In honor of the soon-to-be-released JT LeRoy movie, "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things," we've got a new contest! "The Heart Is Deceitful" is based on JT
misc Political Junkie/Housing Bubbles: The Daly Show The Land Use Committee of the Board of Supervisors met yesterday, to discuss whether the city should put caps on the number of owner-occupied two-unit buildings that can be converted from tenancies in
