Supervisors Reject Condos With Evicted Seniors

Crucial vote sends a message that a building cleared by the Ellis Act will not get a lucrative permit to convert the units to condos.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors refused to allow the owners of a building where seniors were evicted to win a lucrative permit to convert their units to condominiums. The owners might already have their condo permits if Mayor London Breed had filled a vacancy on the Planning Commission in time. All three commissioners who were appointed by the mayor voted in favor of the conversion. All three members appointed by the supervisors voted against it. The seventh seat was vacant when this issue came up. And without four votes, the permit couldn’t be approved.

The episode shows a sharp disconnect between the policies of Mayor Breed (and we all know that she, like most mayors, lets her commissioners know how she wants them to vote on key issues) and the supes when it comes to rewarding speculators and evictors.