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Tenants

City Attorney sues Ingleside landlords for profiting off of unsafe units

June 30, 2022May 26, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Landlords allowed immigrant tenants to live in illegal and unsafe units

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

City Attorney sues Tenderloin SRO owner over deplorable living conditions

June 30, 2022May 20, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Landlords have neglected the property creating hazardous conditions for vulnerable residents

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

San Francisco files amicus brief urging federal court to uphold Seattle anti-discrimination law

June 30, 2022February 4, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Brief argues Seattle’s “fair chance” ordinance fights discrimination in rental housing and reduces recidivism

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Chiu and Ronen statement on court victory upholding San Francisco eviction protection law

June 30, 2022January 24, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Decision protects tenants from bad-faith rent increases and coerced evictions

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Herrera secures $245,000 settlement from Lem-Ray Properties for discriminating against low-income tenants

June 30, 2022November 1, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Lem-Ray and Chuck Post have been forced to halt their illegal practice of refusing to accept Section 8 vouchers

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

Herrera statement on California Supreme Court denying appeal by predatory landlord Anne Kihagi

June 30, 2022March 13, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
“The court forcefully affirmed San Francisco’s interest in protecting public health, and repeatedly emphasized the likelihood that the sugary soda lobby’s case would fall flat,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera said.
Herrera says  ‘residents will finally be able to live their lives in peace’

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, Kihagi, News, Tenants

Appellate court upholds $2.7 million judgment against notorious landlord Kihagi

June 30, 2022December 4, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Herrera calls decision a ‘victory for San Francisco tenants’

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

Herrera secures $2.25 million from scofflaw property owners over illegal Airbnb rentals

June 30, 2022November 5, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
“The court forcefully affirmed San Francisco’s interest in protecting public health, and repeatedly emphasized the likelihood that the sugary soda lobby’s case would fall flat,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera said.
Owners also barred from short-term rentals on any of their properties until May 2025

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

Herrera wins victory for low-income tenants

June 30, 2022April 12, 2018 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.
Appellate court upholds SF law that prevents discrimination against Section 8 renters; Lembi-affiliated landlord, real estate broker must accept federal housing vouchers

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

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 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
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