SF News Mendocino Town of Point Arena Being Rocked By City Councilmember Buying Up Properties With LLCs A sort of “California Forever” type situation has been brewing in the small Mendocino County town of Point Arena, where a sitting member of city council has bought up about 20 properties through a web of LLCs and chased out long-term tenants.
SF News SF Supervisors Strengthen Legacy Business Protections, Hoping to Save La Mediterranee and Others After a billionaire bought up several Upper Fillmore buildings and legacy businesses there were given their walking papers, Supervisor Aaron Peskin just passed his bill adding protections to keep those businesses in place.
SF News Tenants Set to Be Evicted En Masse at Potrero Hill Housing Complex Where Manager Was Illegally Collecting Rent Even though they’d been paying rent, tenants of some 40 units at Potrero Terrace-Annex are facing eviction proceedings, because they’d been paying rent to a rogue manager who was allegedly just pocketing the money.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF News Eviction By Sheriff Near Castro Neighborhood Leads to Shots Fired, SWAT Situation A tense police standoff was unfolding Wednesday afternoon in Corona Heights, near Buena Vista Park, where an eviction was reportedly taking place by the SF Sheriff's Department and the tenant allegedly fired a gun.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar in the Former Home of The Uptown Delayed in Light of Owner’s ‘Serial Evictor’ Past There’s some community outrage over how the building owner whose rent increase did in Capp Street bar The Uptown is now himself opening a bar there, in what looks like an owner move-in eviction of a nightclub.
SF News Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy Shot While Serving Eviction In Union City, One Day After Similar Incident In Oakland Sheriff's deputies are facing violent pushback while serving eviction notices in the East Bay this week, and one was shot and wounded Wednesday afternoon in Union City.
SF News Sausalito Apartment Complex Trying to Evict Tenants From All 39 Units, Including 93-Year-Old Woman The owner of a 39-unit apartment building in Sausalito is evicting literally everyone in order to renovate the place and jack up the rents, even giving a 93-year-old woman notice that she has to be out in two months.
SF Politics Supervisors Approve 60-Day Extension of SF Eviction Moratorium The current San Francisco eviction moratorium will now have a 60-day “wind-down period” beyond the end of the local COVID-19 state of emergency, though it’s still unclear when SF’s state of emergency will actually end.
SF News Supes Hold Hearing on Evictions of Formerly Homeless From SROs, Which Just Makes Them Homeless Again In a puzzling phenomenon, the city of San Francisco spends hundreds of millions of dollars to house the homeless population. But it also spends millions of dollars evicting some of those same people from the very housing they were placed in.
SF News Famed LGBT Rights Icon Cleve Jones Facing Displacement After New Building Owner Doubles Rent It's a tale at least as old as the first dot-com boom in SF, as elderly renters face displacement or eviction due to the real estate pressures that make rent control precarious. And now one of the Castro's elder statesmen has fallen victim as well.
SF News Real Estate Firm That Owned 'Moms 4 Housing' House Hit With $3.5M Penalty From State Wedgewood, the real estate investment firm that is best known locally for their role in a standoff with a group of homeless Oakland mothers two years ago, has reportedly reached a $3.5 million settlement with the state of California over its eviction practices statewide.
SF News Oakland Developer Evicting People Like Mad During Eviction Moratorium The owner of Vulcan Lofts and nearly two dozen other East Bay apartment complexes is singularly responsible for nearly a third of all Oakland eviction notices filed during the eviction moratorium.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Extend Eviction Moratorium Indefinitely The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to extend the pandemic-related eviction moratorium for residential tenants in the city past the July sunset timeframe that was initially approved in March. And an SF lawmaker is introducing a similar statewide measure on Wednesday in Sacramento.
SF Politics Newsom Issues Statewide Order Barring Residential Evictions During COVID-19 Crisis Governor Newsom has expanded on what was already becoming policy in some cities around California, issuing an executive order Friday that bans landlords from evicting residential tenants for non-payment of rent through May 31.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Group Evicted and 3 Arrested In Dramatic Pre-Dawn Raid Perhaps this was the Alameda County Sheriff's Department's idea of ending things peacefully and without incident, but two of the homeless mothers who have been squatting at a West Oakland residence since November were met with a militaristic raid early Tuesday morning.
SF News Judge Orders West Oakland Moms Squatting In Vacant Home To Be Evicted The saga of Moms 4 Housing appears to be coming to a close as a judge on Friday ordered that the women who have been occupying a vacant property in West Oakland must leave or be removed by the Sheriff. The decision is very likely to draw more protest.
SF Politics Sup. Ronen Moves to Toughen Up Tenant Buyout Protections With the eviction crisis is still hitting the Mission District the hardest, Hillary Ronen wants to close loopholes that landlords use to lowball tenants on buyout offers.
SF News Daly City Landlords Line Up To Evict Tenants Ahead of New State Law Daly City is facing an apparent eviction crisis as landlords are hurrying to oust tenants ahead of a state law taking effect in January that bars no-fault evictions.
SF News Oakland Landlords Lose Case Over Paying Tenants $6,500 To Leave The first legal challenge to Oakland’s new tenant relocation payment law has been denied, but an appeal could undo San Francisco’s version of the measure.
Arts & Entertainment The Mission Loses Another Bit Of Cool: 20-Year-Old Vintage/Wig Shop Retro Fit Gets 30-Day Notice First we lost Clothes Contact. Then we lost Multikulti, and Thrift Town. And now yet another funky vestige of the Mission of the 90s is going away: Retro Fit. BrokeAss Stuart breaks the
SF News Eviction Of 1,800 Residents On Treasure Island Sounds Like A Real Mess It's getting closer to the time when Treasure Island is going to be largely demolished to make way for a massive redevelopment project that has been in the works for over a decade.
SF News Drag Queen Carnie Asada Didn't Know She Was Promoting Condos Made Available By Ellis Act Evictions A San Francisco real estate agent hired drag queen Carnie Asada to star in a video advertising Casa de Dolores, a set of fully renovated condominiums whose developer used the Ellis Act to
SF News [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
SF News 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
