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Housing & Tenant Rights

Judge boosts penalties to $2.7 million in final ruling on ruthless landlord

June 30, 2022May 24, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
With final court decision, Anne Kihagi must immediately comply with a broad injunction that will transfer her property operations to a city-approved manager

Categories Affordable Housing, Housing & Tenant Rights, News

Herrera busts two affordable housing cheats

June 30, 2022May 11, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Groundbreaking enforcement to ensure affordable housing goes to those who need it

Categories Affordable Housing, Housing & Tenant Rights, News

Herrera to get evictions voided, win $2.4 million judgment against notorious landlord

June 30, 2022May 3, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Court rules against abusive landlord on every count in tentative decision; pending evictions to be cancelled, allowing those tenants to remain

Categories Affordable Housing, Housing & Tenant Rights, Kihagi, News, Tenants

Herrera repels legal challenge to short-term rental law, secures settlement with Airbnb and HomeAway

January 19, 2023May 1, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Deal protects homes, clears way for city enforcement, makes mandatory host registration easier

Categories Affordable Housing, Housing & Tenant Rights, News

Herrera secures landmark settlement valued at $60 million from Academy of Art University

June 30, 2022December 19, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Record code settlement requires academy to provide at least 160 units of affordable housing at no cost to the city, pay millions more to keep at-risk tenants in their homes

Categories Academy of Art University, Affordable Housing, Housing & Tenant Rights, News

Federal judge gives initial backing to SF law that holds online rental platform companies accountable for illegal rentals

June 30, 2022November 8, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Judge rejects arguments from online rental platforms. Herrera applauds ruling

Categories Affordable Housing, Housing & Tenant Rights, News

Herrera urges HUD to reconsider

June 30, 2022August 25, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Dennis Herrera has urged HUD Secretary Julián Castro to reverse its disapproval of of San Francisco's Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan.
S.F. City Attorney contends that the federal housing agency was “wrong as a matter of law and public policy” to reject San Francisco’s Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan

Categories Affordable Housing, Defending S.F. Laws, Housing & Tenant Rights, Land Use, Neighborhood Protection, News, Tenants

Amendments proposed to strengthen City’s short-term rental law against legal challenge

June 30, 2022July 12, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco Supervisor David Campos.
Campos and Herrera agree that modest revisions can both address platforms’ objections in federal lawsuit and fulfill the intent of a fair, enforceable ordinance

Categories Affordable Housing, Defending S.F. Laws, Housing & Tenant Rights, Land Use, News, Tenants

Herrera wins preliminary injunction in Section 8 housing discrimination case

June 30, 2022May 24, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Lembi-affiliated landlord, real estate broker must accept federal housing vouchers from low-income renters under local law, Superior Court Judge Quidachay rules

Categories Affordable Housing, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Herrera seeks injunction to halt discrimination over Section 8 housing vouchers

June 30, 2022April 20, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney calls vouchers ‘an essential tool for many San Franciscans to access affordable housing—especially in crisis like the one we are currently experiencing’

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Herrera’s Section 8 housing discrimination case clears key hurdle with Superior Court ruling

June 30, 2022March 22, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Deputy City Attorneys Sara Eisenberg and Brad Russi discuss litigation strategy after winning a key procedural ruling on March 22, 2016.
Judge denies bid by notorious Lembi landlord and real estate broker to dismiss suit, affirming San Francisco law prohibiting refusals to accept federal housing vouchers

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Court rejects Kihagi’s bid to derail Herrera’s lawsuit over evictions, code violations

June 30, 2022December 15, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Litigation against notoriously vicious landlord’s serial evictions of rent-controlled tenants, refusal to obey housing laws now proceeds to Jan. 12 injunction hearing

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, Illegal Businesses, Kihagi, Tenants

‘Ruthless predator’ Kihagi faces injunction bid by Herrera to halt evictions, code violations

June 30, 2022December 4, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Notorious landlord and real estate investor’s harassment of rent-controlled tenants, refusal to obey housing laws force City Attorney to seek extraordinary relief

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, Illegal Businesses, Kihagi, Neighborhood Protection, News, Tenants

Herrera subpoenas Trinity over rent-controlled apartments used as ‘SOMA Suites Hotel’

June 30, 2022September 8, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Herrera at a City Hall news conference with Deputy City Attorney Yvonne Meré, lead counsel in the Trinity Place investigation.
After request for cooperation is met ‘with obfuscation and deflection of responsibility,’ City Attorney moves to compel production of evidence in housing investigation

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, Land Use, News, Tenants, Trinity Place

Herrera demands answers from Trinity Place on tourist uses of rent-controlled dwellings

June 30, 2022August 6, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Deputy City Attorney Yvonne Meré, lead counsel in the Trinity Place investigation, with City Attorney Dennis Herrera at a neighborhood event.
Investigation finds evidence that nearly two-dozen residential apartments-including 16 rent-controlled units-were apparently leased to tourists as ‘SOMA Suites Hotel’

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, Land Use, News, Tenants, Trinity Place Tags Trinity Place

Herrera sues landlord Kihagi for harassing, displacing tenants from rent-controlled homes

June 30, 2022June 5, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Dennis Herrera
Calling defendant ‘among the most abusive and lawless landlords I’ve encountered,’ City Attorney cites ‘breathtaking cruelty’ for targeting elderly, disabled renters

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Herrera’s settlement with short-term rental scofflaws secures $276K penalties, injunction

June 30, 2022May 6, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Defiant landlords used the Ellis Act to evict long-term residents-including a disabled tenant-then marketed vacant flats as ‘vacation rentals’ for up to $595 per night

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Herrera statement on HomeAway’s challenge to short term rental ordinance

June 30, 2022November 3, 2014 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Federal lawsuit pushes ‘dubious legal theory’ that the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause prohibits local jurisdictions from making local land use decisions

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants Tags Dennis Herrera, HomeAway

Herrera files appeal to save S.F.’s tenant relocation assistance law

June 30, 2022October 22, 2014 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Stakes are significant not just for tenants facing Ellis Act evictions, but ‘for many laws that protect land use and our environment,’ City Attorney says

Categories Defending S.F. Laws, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants Tags David Campos, Ellis Act, Featured, Pacific Legal Foundation

Herrera, Campos confident in the face of legal challenges to tenant relocation assistance

June 30, 2022July 28, 2014 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Ordinance balances San Francisco’s ‘compelling public interest to protect renters from financial devastation’ with the property rights of landlords, City Attorney contends

Categories Defending S.F. Laws, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants
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