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Saturday Links: 1,200 Anti-Trump Protests Nationwide, SF’s Civic Center Saturday

A huge protest will be at Civic Center today alongside 1,200 others nationwide; Concord landlords paid fake activists to wear "Repeal Rent Control" shirts to a city council meeting; and the 2025 Sunday Streets schedule has been announced.

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46-Year-Old Sushi Restaurant, Other Longtime Businesses Getting Evicted By Upper Fillmore Real Estate Investor

Welp, hopes that a real estate investor who has been quietly assembling multiple properties on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights has only good intentions to revitalize the area appear to be dashed.

Are Commercial Landlords and Ridiculous Rents to Blame for SF’s Retail and Restaurant Troubles?

Landlords expecting that another boom time is just around the corner, ignoring the fact that retail has been struggling since before the pandemic and that restaurants are struggling across the city, may shoulder much of the blame for the impossible economics of managing small businesses in SF.

Mega-Landlord Veritas Investments In Default on Loans, Could Lose a Third of Its Buildings

SF’s biggest residential landlord Veritas Investments has $1 billion in delinquent loans that the company is trying to sell off, and could lose about a third of its properties across town.

Supreme Court Rejects Oakland Couple's Case Opposing Tenant Payouts, In Win For Tenants' Rights

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied review for a case brought by an Oakland couple regarding their owner move-in eviction, in a blow to all landlords who want to legally challenge city requirements regarding tenant buyouts in no-fault evictions.

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’s ‘Cruelest Landlord’ Back in News, Tenants Win $2.7 Million Harassment Appeal

Notorious landlord Anne Kihagi lost all of her SF properties a couple years ago, but her long-suffering tenants are still in the courts with her, and she just lost an appeal of a seven-year-old harassment case.

SF Extends Eviction Moratorium Through December as City and State Work to Cover Tenants' Back Rent

Low-income tenants in San Francisco who were most impacted by economic shutdowns in the last year are getting another reprieve from the Board of Supervisors — and for those who owe back rent, it may be just a matter of weeks before their landlords get paid.

Bay Area Tenants and Landlords Can Now Apply for Grants to Cover Back Rent From 2020

A state application portal went live Monday for tenants and landlords seeking rental relief grants relating to pandemic hardship — part of a $2.6 billion federally funded aid program in California.

SF Supervisors Vote to Pay Up to 65% of Unpaid Back Rent to Landlords

Back rent is piling up under the eviction moratorium, so the Board voted Tuesday that the city would pay between 50-65% of it for qualifying tenants and landlords.

Pelosi Pushes Veritas Investments To Return $3.6M PPP Loan; They'll Now Repay Amount

Veritas Investments, SF's largest corporate landlord, was recently granted a $3.6M Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan by the U.S. government's Small Business Administration (SBA) — funds they plan on repaying, which will help bolster some of the city's most vulnerable small businesses.

City Sues Laundromat Owner Over 'Death Trap' Basement Apartment

Excelsior and Outer Mission residents were recently shocked to discover that a popular coin-op laundromat had a secret subterranean basement full of squalid illegal apartments, as reported in May. That laundromat, the Clean

SF Might Start Taxing Landlords Who Keep Apartments Vacant

It's a comment news orgs get on nearly every story about San Francisco's rent control laws — something like,"I'm a property owner, but I refuse to rent out my vacant apartment(s) because

[Update] Owner Move-In Evictions To Get A Few Degrees More Difficult

In an effort to crack down on fraudulent owner move-in evictions which are estimated to occur in about one in four of these types of evictions as greedy landlords citywide have sought to

Excelsior Laundromat Exposed As 'Death Trap' With Shoddy, Illegal Apartments

In a fairly shocking report even by contemporary SF slumlord standards, the Chron finds that a longtime popular laundromat in the Excelsior has secretly been serving for more than ten years as a

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

Bad Landlord Anne Kihagi Fined $2.4 Million By SF Court

Housing rights activists gather to protest landlord Anne Kihagi #protest #housing #eviction https://t.co/fYG1EdMi8S pic.twitter.com/uPN7u8noG2— Onpublico (@onpublico) January 31, 2015 It's a bad week for notoriously bad landlord

Noted Bad Landlord Anne Kihagi Thrown In Jail In Los Angeles

Notorious local landlord Anne Kihagi, who was sued by the SF city attorney two years ago after numerous reports about her shady eviction tactics and unfair treatment of tenants, has now been sentenced

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

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

To Get Tenants To Leave Rent-Controlled Apartments, East Palo Alto Landlord Allegedly Shot Their Cars With A BB Gun

John Small didn't think too much of it when his car was damaged last year in East Palo Alto in the parking garage of Stanford Garden Apartments, the complex where he's lived for

Major Landlords Now Want A Piece Of Their Tenants' Airbnb Action

Three of the largest landlords in the US, Equity Residential, AvalonBay Communities Inc., and Camden Property Trust, have discussed the possibility of formally allowing their tenants to market rooms through Airbnb — if they

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

Landlords Try To Gut Roommate Provision In New Tenant Law Via The Rent Board, Fail

The somewhat controversial provision in a new tenant-protection ordinance passed by the Board of Supervisors and sponsored by Jane Kim that allows tenants to add roommates in a unit up to those set

Infamous Lower Haight Landlord Continues Dirtbaggery, Demands 100% Increase On Rent-Controlled Unit

"This is Robert Shelton," former tenant Veronica Fauxton introduces us in a charming post to Youtube. "He owns the apartment building at 312 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA 94117. This was after I