SF News Tenants At 1049 Market Win Again, Eviction Notices Revoked The saga of 1049 Market Street continues this week as those new eviction notices we discussed a few weeks ago have been revoked by the landlord, clearly under pressure from the city. Lawyers
SF News San Francisco Going After Airbnb Hosts Even as San Francisco works with Airbnb and other short-term rental services to extract the city's share of taxes, the city itself and local landlords are cracking down on laws that make it
SF News Landlord Once Again Intimidating, Evicting 1049 Market Tenants Landlord John Gall appears to be doing an end-run in order to empty his property at 1049 Market Street of all its tenants, despite there being dozens of legal, occupied residential units and
SF News SF Comedians Speak Out Against Evictions During Set At City Hall Back in the day, comedians were known to roam the city's landscape offering golden nuggets of wisdom in between fart jokes. Some comedians even made big-time names fir themselves. Luckily, buried like tulip
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 Mid-Market Tenants Win Another Reprieve From Eviction Last we heard about the embattled tenants of 1049 Market Street, the remaining group of them who have not moved of their own accord (it remains unclear just how many there are, but
SF News Law Firm Putting On Another Event To Better Teach Landlords How To Evict Here we go again. The Law Offices of Bornstein & Bornstein and Bay Property Group have invited you to learn the art of kicking out tenants. There's money to be made and those
SF News Mid-Market Tenants Suing Landlord To Counter Eviction Remember the case of 1049 Market, where about a hundred people faced eviction all because a percentage of the units were declared illegal and the landlord decided to convert to office? Well, a
SF News Anti-Eviction Protesters Block Google Bus In The Mission [Update] The revolution has begun, comrades. Over in the city's tony Mission District at 24th and Valencia, a group of protesters braved the chill to block a Google Bus from moving its merry band
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 Supervisor Campos To Introduce Anti-Eviction Legislation Supervisor David Campos revealed over the weekend that he plans to introduce some new legislation to counteract the eviction trend. He's hoping that a new law would provide "incentives against the Ellis Act"
SF News Protest Planned At Twitter Headquarters On IPO Day In an effort to "call attention to corporate tax breaks and the tech company’s role in the San Francisco eviction crisis," a protest will take place outside Twitter headquarters on Thursday to
SF News Mass Eviction On Mid-Market Put On Hold Pending Planning Review In a small victory for tenants' rights, a mass eviction of more than 100 people from 1049 Market Street has been put on hold as the Planning Department looks into the historic residential
SF News Jane Kim Steps In To Help Mid-Market Tenants Facing Eviction Following on yesterday's breaking news about the 100+ people getting evicted from two buildings on Market between 6th and 7th, Supervisor Jane Kim is hoping to get the word out to tenants that
SF News 100+ Artists And Students Getting Evicted From Large Mid-Market Building With 'Illegal' Units [Updated] A building that for almost fifteen years has provided affordable housing to artists, students, and others on a Mid-Market block is getting emptied of tenants in what's likely to be a high-profile mass
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
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Historic Preservation Commission Considers Gold Dust Lounge's Historic Status [Updated] In their latest attempt to keep the beloved watering hole open, the folks behind Save the Gold Dust Lounge, aka "The Little Engine That Could," will be speaking at the Historic Preservation Committee
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Save the Gold Dust Lounge' Press Conference/Daytime Drinking Event Planned For Thursday The campaign to save the Gold Dust Lounge will hold their first "official" event this Thursday (that's tomorrow!) at 4 p.m. The event, which the group posted on Facebook this afternoon, will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Campaign To Save Gold Dust Lounge Underway [Updated] Naturally, lots of folks are upset about the prospect of losing one of San Francisco's most historic drinking establishments, Gold Dust Lounge, since the news of its impending eviction broke last Friday. In
