SF News Evictions Down By 21% Since Last Year In First Decrease Since 2010 From the beginning of March 2016 to the end of February 2017, a total of 1,881 evictions notices were filed with the Rent Board, a 21 percent decrease from last year’s
SF News Supervisors Propose Penalties For Wrongful Owner Move-In Evictions Landlords like the one who evicted Angelique Rochelle and her three children from a San Francisco apartment in 2014 under the false pretense of an owner move-in eviction — the landlord simply raised the
SF News Iris Canada, 100-Year-Old Evicted Last Month After Long Legal Fight, Has Died A longtime resident of 670 Page Street who was evicted last month after a drawn-out fight that catalyzed San Francisco tenant rights groups has died at age 100. Iris Canada was hospitalized shortly
SF News Artist Tenants In Bernal Heights Warehouse Take Eviction Fight To Rent Board A group of eight artists are facing eviction from a live-work warehouse in Bernal Heights, and last week they brought their case to the SF Rent Board, which will now have to decide
SF News Infamous Bernal Heights Landlord Who Quadrupled Tenant's Rent Now Must Pay Her $400,000 In March of 2015, Debra Follingstad's Facebook post went viral, a story that served as a "sign of the times" anecdote about the state of San Francisco eviction scares and housing horrors. In
SF News Squatter Horror Story Involving Berkeley Professor Has <i>Mother Jones</i> Wishing Evictions Were Easier Many #CALaws but 1 hasn't changed.A homeowner's worst nightmare: tenant not paying rent,refusing to leave. C u @8:30 pic.twitter.com/wsvAT3RlxK— Ella Sogomonian (@EllaSogomonian) January 2, 2017 A short-term
SF News Ousted Tenants Employing Private Investigators To Bust Illegal Airbnbs San Francisco Airbnb hosts not playing by the rules now face a new challenge: private investigators out to catch them in the short-term rental act. However, as Bloomberg reports, the latest salvo in
SF News 13,000 Sign Petition Asking For Fire Inspections That Lead To Artist Evictions To Stop An online petition, which as of Wednesday had garnered 10,000 signatures and is now up to 13,000, was delivered to San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection on Wednesday by 25-year-old SF
SF News One In Four Owner Move-In Evictions Could Be Fraudulent According To New Investigation Of the 16 grounds for eviction in San Francisco, among the murkiest is the scenario known as an owner move-in eviction. There, a landlord seeks to relocate themselves or a close relative into
SF News How Tenants Who Fight Evictions Can Land On Renter Blacklists (Even If They Win) If you, like Denise Barton and her young twin daughters, are evicted from an apartment in California, like they were from theirs in the Outer Richmond, you can fight... but she chose not
SF News Teacher Evicted In The Mission For Use Of Appliances In Illegal In-Law Reaches Settlement With Owners One of several recent, notable eviction cases to reach the media the case of local teacher Michelle Malliet who is being evicted by the new owners of her building in the Mission whose
SF News SF Man Hit With Massive Rent Increase Following Loss Of His Partner To Suicide These days it seems like each week brings with it another tragic story of someone being forced out of the apartment they call home, and today is no different. The Chronicle reports on
SF News Protesters Disrupt SoMa Office Of Man Evicting School Teacher If you're going to disrupt where we live, we're going to disrupt where you work. That seemed to be the message of protesters gathered outside the Bryant Street office of film company Mubi
SF News North Beach Tenant With Rent Hiked To $8000 Gets Help From Peskin Due to the world's obsession with San Francisco and its crazy rents, a story about one North Beach tenant's rent hike from $1,800 to $8,000 for a rent-controlled one-bedroom has made
SF News North Beach Tenant Facing Eviction After Rent Increase From $1,800 To $8,000 With rent increases and evictions all too commonplace in the Bay Area, it's now the most extreme examples — last year's massive rent hike on a Bernal Heights apartment, to name just one — that
SF News Report: San Francisco Rents To Skyrocket 10.5% By Year's End Despite word just last month that rents for one-bedrooms were basically flat, a new report from rental site RentCafe suggests things are about to take a turn for the (even more) pricey. The
SF News Judge: 99-Year-Old Woman Facing Eviction Can Stay, If She Pays $100K In Legal Fees Deal to allow 99 year old Iris Canada to stay in her SF home hits snag when landlord asks for courtroom apology. pic.twitter.com/ZsIGvqgF5v— Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) April 19, 2016
SF News Now Tony Robbins Is Stepping In To Help Evicted Roommate Of Deceased 97-Year-Old In Burlingame In a second high-profile philanthropic effort in a month, multimillionaire motivational speaker Tony Robbins has offered to pay for a long-term home for an 85-year-old woman who was being evicted from her home
SF News 99-Year-Old Western Addition Woman Granted One-Week Reprieve From Eviction From today's rally in solidarity for Iris Canada. 99 years strong. Eviction = Death. Let our seniors live in peace. pic.twitter.com/iro45ajyQf— Tina Cheung (@tinacheung) April 13, 2016 After a court hearing
SF News 'Bubble Real Estate' Is An Actual Company, And Its Founder Is A Serial Evictor a little on the nose, guys pic.twitter.com/n2sBcMhlOI— cat ferguson (@biocuriosity) April 12, 2016 If you're like me, you probably did a double take upon seeing the above photo. Depicting an
SF News Report: Ellis Act Filings Up 36% As Evictions Hit Six-Year High Evictions are up for the sixth year in a row according to a recently released report from the San Francisco Rent Board. At 2,134, the total number filed between March 1, 2015
SF News Extremely SF Startup Negotiates Buyouts On Rent-Controlled Units Landlords have been required to publicly disclose buyout agreements made with their tenants since 2014, finally giving us some numbers and transparency into what has previously been a shrouded subject last year. That
SF News Supervisors Move Forward With Eviction Protection For Teachers A San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee gave its seal of approval this week to legislation that would protect teachers, school employees, child caregivers, and their families from evictions during the academic year.
SF News 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 invoking the Ellis Act after all
SF News 97-Year-Old Woman Fighting Eviction In Burlingame Dies A story that broke two weeks ago about a 97-year-old woman in Burlingame who was getting evicted from her home of 66 years has come to a sad and sudden end. Marie Hatch
