SF News Tenants Set to Be Evicted En Masse at Potrero Hill Housing Complex Where Manager Was Illegally Collecting Rent Even though they’d been paying rent, tenants of some 40 units at Potrero Terrace-Annex are facing eviction proceedings, because they’d been paying rent to a rogue manager who was allegedly just pocketing the money.
SF News [Update] 94-Year-Old Woman Won't Be Evicted From Mission District Apartment After a local media stir, a 94-year-old woman who’s lived at her Mission District apartment since the 1940s will not be evicted as a landlord had initially proposed.
SF News Sausalito Apartment Complex Trying to Evict Tenants From All 39 Units, Including 93-Year-Old Woman The owner of a 39-unit apartment building in Sausalito is evicting literally everyone in order to renovate the place and jack up the rents, even giving a 93-year-old woman notice that she has to be out in two months.
SF News [Update] 81-Year-Old Woman Being Evicted From Upper Haight Condo Hits Back With Lawsuit In a sad tale that combines predatory lending with the seeming financial abuse of an elder, an 81-year-old woman’s Upper Haight condo was auctioned at a fraction of its value, and the new buyer gave her a three-day notice on Friday. But now she’s suing.
SF News Supes Hold Hearing on Evictions of Formerly Homeless From SROs, Which Just Makes Them Homeless Again In a puzzling phenomenon, the city of San Francisco spends hundreds of millions of dollars to house the homeless population. But it also spends millions of dollars evicting some of those same people from the very housing they were placed in.
SF News Sup. Preston Pushing to Extend SF Eviction Moratorium Another 60 Days With the end of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency proclamation now in sight, Supervisor Dean Preston is proposing to tack an extra 60 days onto the city’s eviction moratorium that would otherwise end once the emergency proclamation ends.
SF News SF Taiko Dojo Being Evicted at End of the Month, May Be Forced to Disband With their rent being tripled effective September 1, the popular long-running Bay Area Japanese drumming group and cultural collective San Francisco Taiko Dojo is looking at eviction, and may have already had their last performance.
SF News Developer Evicts More Than a Dozen Mostly Senior Citizen Houseboat Residents from South San Francisco Marina The 14 "liveaboard" residents of the South San Francisco Oyster Cove Marina were offered a $10,000 relocation fee — but only if they agreed to leave within two weeks.
SF News Photos: Hundreds Gather in Castro in Support of Cleve Jones, Other Tenants Facing Displacement Around 250 people convened at SF's Harvey Milk Plaza Sunday to stand in solidarity with Cleve Jones — the celebrated 67-year-old gay rights activist — as he called attention to his own displacement and others' in the neighborhood.
SF News Landlords Getting Nailed With Huge, Million-Dollar Settlements for Sham Owner Move-In Evictions Two record-setting settlements of more than $2 million apiece in recent months, where the settlement cost more than the house itself, are putting a chill on the old owner move-in eviction runaround.
SF News Oakland Developer Evicting People Like Mad During Eviction Moratorium The owner of Vulcan Lofts and nearly two dozen other East Bay apartment complexes is singularly responsible for nearly a third of all Oakland eviction notices filed during the eviction moratorium.
SF News Oakland Landlords Evict Tenants, Allegedly Destroy Their Stuff, Hang Trump Banner Jahahara Alkebulan-Ma'at received an eviction notice from his Oakland apartment on Christmas Day 2016. The residence in question is a home near Lake Merritt that was converted into three separate apartments. Alkebulan-Ma'at went
SF News Rally Thursday For 81-Year-Old North Beach Poet Fighting Eviction Since 2013 Diego Deleo was first threatened with an Ellis Act eviction in 2013, a year after the death of his wife. He's been fighting ever since, and this week a rally in North Beach
Arts & Entertainment Community Bands Together To Save Iconic SoMa Gay Bar The Stud After New Owners Hike Rent 150% Our beloved clubhouse. The iconic STUD SF. Day of reckoning. A photo posted by Steve Fabus (@stevefabus) on Jul 3, 2016 at 12:31pm PDT Of all the iconic, legendary San Francisco institutions
SF News Threatened Eviction Of 97-Year-Old Woman Prompts Community Outpouring Marie Hatch is 97 years old, currently fighting cancer, and has lived in the same Burlingame home for 66 years after her original landlord and friend promised her a lifetime lease. Now, thanks
SF News Video: The Church Of Coltrane's (Possibly) Last Service In The Fillmore “Any special offerings today?” Archbishop Franzo King asked his congregation when passing the collection basket at Sunday’s service. “Did somebody come and bring $10,000?” The Archbishop’s congregation is that of
SF News 71% Of SF Homeless Once Had Homes In SF There's a lot to learn form the Homeless Point-In-Time Count & Survey Comprehensive Report of 2015, which is online in its entirety, but one detail to which Socketsite draws attention is the percent
SF News Eviction Reportedly Behind Tuesday Night Bernal Heights Arson More photos of #sffd & #sfpd at fire in #BernalHeights https://t.co/p8ufZQVzRd pic.twitter.com/qQk4A9eMuU— Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) January 27, 2016 A Bernal Heights man is in custody today, after
SF News [Update] Anti-Eviction Protesters Claim De Young Curator Is Evicting Longtime Artist Tenant It's one of those stories that makes you do a double take: art museum curator and newly minted landlord evicts a 34-year tenant, who just so happens to be an artist and woodworker
SF News Evicted Social Club Snaps Up Gingerbread House Property In Oakland A nonprofit sexy social club evicted from their Mission District space two years ago is doing the quintessential San Francisco thing — moving to Oakland. They've successfully rounded up a team of investors to
SF News Has The Pro-Tenant Law Regulating Buyouts Prompted More Evictions? A city law introduced by Supervisor David Campos and adopted last year by the Board of Supervisors to shed light on the practice of tenant buyouts might be having an unfortunate and unintended
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 Want To Know Which Tech Execs Are Also Eviction-Happy Landlords? Well, protest group the Anti Eviction Mapping Project sure does. On Thursday they released a "dirty dozen" list of executives in the tech sector who they claim have evicted or are in the
SF News Mission Sex Club Falls Victim To S.F. Eviction Crisis Now that the Mission has turned into a giant independently-owned beard oil boutique, soaring rent prices have driven local sex club Mission Control out. They (along with countless other evictees, presumably) need your
SF News New T-Shirt Draws Attention To The Mission's Eviction Crisis Mia Gonzalez, owner of Encantada Gallery in the Mission, received an eviction notice from the darling little store she's run for more than 16 years. She responded by designing this powerful shirt. Friend
