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 Photo Du Jour: Sign Of The Times Spotted in Duboce Park at the foot of Steiner. No, we don't know what's happened here: All we have to go on is this striking image of a serene day and a clearly
SF News Campos Wants To Protect SF Teachers From Eviction Thanks to @DavidCamposSF and @HillaryRonen for introducing legislation to stop mid school year educator evictions! pic.twitter.com/BVUUPyLLn0— UESF (@UESF) February 2, 2016 Supervisor David Campos this morning introduced new legislation with
SF News Bayview Pastor Arrested In Home After Protesting Eviction #pastordorn Sheriff's Chaplain and community leader arrested for resisting #eviction #blackhomesmatter pic.twitter.com/w0VBEkYVAH— Save Midtown (@savemidtown) January 14, 2016 A Bayview pastor was arrested yesterday for refusing to leave the home
SF News Two Sunset Families May Lose Their Apartments Due To Shady Landlord Tactic Two separate groups of Sunset renters are at risk of losing their apartments after what appear to be some shady moves by the building's new owner. One of the renters has filed an
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 Landlord Trying To Evict Duboce Triangle Artist Says His Family Really Is Just Trying To Move In Despite skepticism from anti-eviction activists, the owner of the building at 53-55 Walter Street where longtime tenant David Brenkus is facing an Ellis Act eviction has reached out to SFist to explain that
SF News [Update] Should Living In An Apartment For 34 Years Give You The Right To Stay There? The story of artist David Brenkus, a Duboce Triangle resident since 1981, getting evicted by the family of deYoung Museum curator Emma Harshawat (née Acker) is obviously an irresistible one for both sides
SF News Now Mayor Lee May Be Vetoing Jane Kim's Tenant Protection Legislation Remember that new tenant-protection ordinance introduced by Jane Kim and passed by a majority of the Board of Supervisors that would make it easier to add new roommates and harder to get evicted?
SF News Day Around The Bay: Judge Strikes Down Eviction Payment Law, Again The 27-year-old woman, Sharinna Beoncia Grady, accused of stabbing a 10-year-old boy on Muni last week pleaded not guilty today. [CBS 5] Remember how the Board of Supervisors passed a new law last
SF News Adding Roommates Made Easier, Evictions Made Harder After Board Of Supervisors Vote The Board of Supervisors took an extra step in tenant protections at Tuesday's meeting, voting to approve new legislation that makes it more difficult for landlords to evict tenants for minor violations, or
SF News Do More Tech Shuttle Stops Lead Directly To Higher Rents And More Evictions? Tensions over tech shuttles live on, surprisingly or unsurprisingly depending on where you stand on the "San Francisco has been destroyed" vs. "all change is good change" spectrum. And now anti-shuttle and anti-eviction
SF News [Updated] Hayes Valley-Adjacent Section 8 Project Being Sold To Speculator, Flipped As Market-Rate With $7,000 Rents? We're getting word of a crazy story, without complete details, about a possible pending sale of a Section 8 housing project at 1049 Golden Gate Avenue, near Laguna, that was built with help
SF News Jack Halprin, 'Google Lawyer' And Target Of Anti-Eviction Protests, Dies Of Cancer At 46 Jack Halprin, head of eDiscovery at Google, has died according to the Examiner. According to an announcement from his brother on Facebook, Halprin "lost his short but difficult battle with cancer." He was
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 News Ugly Landlord-Tenant Dispute In Sunset May Just Be A Case Of A Terrible Tenant Today's "gotta hear both sides" landlord-tenant dispute comes from ABC 7, and the landlord's lawyers are presenting it as a "case study" that argues renters are afforded too many rights and resources. The
SF News Rube Goldberg House Gets Landmark Status, Potentially Foiling Eviction We learned back in November of the case of four tenants occupying two rent-controlled units on the second floor of 198 Gough, which is also home to 20th Century Cafe and was, historically,
SF News Bernal Heights Woman Who Was Given 400 Percent Rent Hike Moves Out Today Back in March, the story of Bernal Heights resident Deborah Follingstad getting pushed out of her home of ten years went viral around the Bay Area after she posted the notice from her
SF News Airbnb Violations Now Being Used More Often Than The Ellis Act In Evicting SF Tenants Many San Francisco renters, especially those living in rent-controlled units, have likely had to sign leases, or revised leases, with their landlords in recent years that specifically prohibit short-term rental of the unit
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Shame. 3 Women Evicted Today's photo was sent to us by SFist reader Casey Fisher, who says that this photo is "from Haight and Central. I think it's becoming a Ritual Coffee." While we can't confirm any
SF News [Update] Landlord Uses Loophole In Rent Control Law To Raise Woman's Rent To $8900 Via a Facebook post over the weekend that's been going locally viral, several tipsters have been alerting SFist to a story that is likely to frighten anyone who's been enjoying the protection of
SF News Notorious Landlord Accuses 70-Year-Old Grandmother Of Dealing Drugs In Mission Eviction Fight A 70-year-old woman who has enjoyed the same rent-controlled Mission apartment for four decades is now facing some newly aggressive tactics from a landlord who wants her out. As CBS 5 is reporting,
SF News 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 the offensive
SF News Amended Ellis Act Relocation Law Caps Landlord Payouts At $50K Supervisor David Campos has come back to the Board with a new, dialed back version of the Ellis Act payout legislation that was previously passed and took effect last summer only to be
SF News The 2nd Annual Crappy Awards Will Again Arrive In Protest Outside The Crunchies Just like they did last year, a group of anti-tech protesters will host a mock awards ceremony dubbed The Crappies outside the annual TechCrunch-hosted Crunchies, now in its eighth year. Both the Crunchies
