SF News Video: Eviction Protesters Chase 'Google Grinch' Jack Halprin "Hit the road Jack," was the sung refrain this morning as protesters once again targeted, and chased, Google lawyer and local landlord Jack Halprin. At 6:30 a.m. according to reports from
SF News Another 'Unique' Eviction Situation Hits Tenants Of Van Ness Mixed Use Building You may recall the ongoing tale of 1049 Market Street where over 100 people were displaced or nearly displaced from over 75 "live-work" units that had become primary residences for students and other
SF News Four Longtime Tenants Vow To Fight Ellis Eviction From Rube Goldberg Building In Hayes Valley Four tenants in two units where the rents are $1,200 and $1,300 a month, at Gough and Oak Streets, are fighting to stay put as their landlord is attempting to evict
SF News Video: TechCrunch and AOL Commissioned This Housing Crisis Film Since when did AOL and TechCrunch inherit the mantle of the Bay Guardian? Just kidding, but they did commission this video from Stateless Media about San Francisco's housing crisis titled "You Can't Go
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 Grab The Popcorn: Eviction Protesters March On Ed Lee's House In a seriously ballsy move, affordable housing advocates flat-out stormed the front of Mayor Ed Lee’s house Saturday afternoon. Roughly 50 demonstrators gathered at a BART station and then marched to Mayor
SF News Video: Eviction Protesters Storm Hayes Valley Shoe Store To Call Out Bad Landlord Paolo Iantorno, Serial Evictor, Assaults 3 People, Tries to Smash My Camera 16 Oct 2014 from Peter Menchini on Vimeo. A protest went down yesterday in Hayes Valley at the popular shoe store
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owners Of Cuco's Give Up Eviction Fight, Will Close On Monday Three months after the news broke that Lower Haight standby Cuco's was getting evicted, it's finally, sadly happening. According to Hoodline, the beloved Mexican/Salvadoran joint will close on Monday, after almost 23
SF News Ellis Act Payout Foes Vow To Take Case To Supreme Court Lawyers representing a coalition of developers and small-time landlords were in court yesterday arguing this case we previously reported on regarding Ellis Act payouts to tenants. The lawsuit is challenging the City of
SF News Was It Useful To Protest Evictions At The TechCrunch Disrupt Conference? A group of protesters gathered Wednesday to disrupt, as it were, the final day of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Pier 48 and bring attention to the issues of eviction and gentrification that
SF News Have The New S.F. Tenant Protection Measures Done Any Good? It may be too soon to tell if any of the laws passed in the last two years protecting tenants and making evictions more expensive for landlords will ultimately have an impact on
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 20 Tenants Protest Eviction From Mission Building Where Shady Manager And Landlord Were Scheming A shady situation has come to light at a three-story apartment building at 3150-3154 26th Street where about 16 to 20 tenants are facing eviction amid what appears to be an ill-conceived plot
SF News Mayor Lee Launches Pilot Program To Help The Potentially Evicted Stay Put Photo: Dave Golden It may sound like a drop in the bucket (and it kind of is), but Mayor Ed Lee is rolling out a new program today, the first of its kind
SF News How Much Should You Get Paid If Your Landlord Wants To Buy You Out Of Your Rent-Controlled Apartment? There has been a notable increase in the last year or so probably among your friends in rent-controlled apartments, but also among people seeking counseling from the Tenants' Union of buyout offers by
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight's Beloved Cuco's Getting Evicted, Again Remember that utterly disreputable, monstrous Lower Haight landlord who circulated a letter to his tenants a couple months back saying there was a new requirement for tenants that they have a minimum annual
SF News 98-Year-Old Woman Still Fighting Eviction From Her Home Of 50 Years [Update] We first told you about the pending eviction of 98-year-old Mary Phillips (then 97) back in September. She remains in her home at 55 Dolores Street, where she's spent the last 50 years
SF News Ellis Act Reform Bill Killed For Real, Leno 'Profoundly Disappointed' State Senator Mark Leno's effort to prevent cases of real estate flips in Ellis Act evictions, after getting an 11th-hour save in the Senate a few weeks ago, has finally died in committee
SF News New Ballot Measure Would Unleash Vengeful Taxes On House Flippers Supervisor Eric Mar and a group of tenants activists proposed a new ballot measure yesterday that, if passed, would impose a hefty "antispeculation" tax of up to 24% on any budding real estate
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 Another Morning, Another Google Protest In The Mission [Update] Second verse, same as the first. Google employees trying to make their way to work today were slowed down by a group of protesters in the city's impossible Mission District. This time, though,
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.
