Updated Mayor’s Order for COVID-19’s Impact on Tenants The Mayor has issued another order which adds: Clarity that it also applies to affordable housing providers who are exempt from the Rent Ordinance because their rent is controlled or regulated by the City. (1(a)) A step before the landlord can just start a non-payment proceeding after…
DetailsEviction Actions Delayed Unless Threat of Harm to Others The Court has stayed eviction actions (motions, discovery, and trials) effective today for 90 days unless it is a case of violence, threat of violence or threat to health and safety of others. The Court has asked the Chief Justice to declare a Court “holiday” vis…
DetailsSheriff calls off evictions during citywide shelter-in-place order Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said his deputies would not immediately move forward with any evictions in response to the shelter-in-place orders issued in San Francisco and six nearby counties. “Our office is going to be postponing all the evictions that we have scheduled and any upcoming evictions that…
DetailsPhone Counseling Instead of Clinic Due to the COVID-19 virus, we are temporarily closing our in-person counseling. Members are advised to use their members-only phone counseling number. Non-members are advised to follow the instructions on http://www.sftu.org/drop-in-clinic.
DetailsMORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS RELATED TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, March 13, 2020 Contact: Mayor’s Office of Communications, 415-554-6131 *** PRESS RELEASE *** MAYOR LONDON BREED ANNOUNCES MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS RELATED TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC Order will go into effect immediately to prevent evictions of any resident who suffers a loss of income related to…
DetailsProgressives win three judges, Democratic County Central Committee Mary Jung, the former party chair and real-estate lobbyist, loses her seat on the Democratic party’s policy-making board. Two public defenders and a tenant lawyer, Cary Gold for whom we campaigned, will join the bench. https://48hills.org/2020/03/final-final-results-progressives-win-three-judges-dccc
DetailsElection results show strong night for local progressives Huge numbers of votes still to count, but trends are favoring the local left. It’s a good night for progressives in San Francisco. With the final Election-Day results in, we can say that two public defenders and a tenant lawyer look to be headed for the Superior…
DetailsEndorsements for March 2020 Election President Bernie Sanders California State Senator Jackie Fielder San Francisco Judge Carolyn Gold Maria Evangelista Michelle Tong San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) Assembly District 17 John Avalos Gloria Berry David Campos Christopher Christensen Peter Gallotta Matt Haney Anabell Ibáñez Jane Kim Honey Mahogany Hillary Ronen Shanell Williams Assembly…
DetailsSenate Bill 50, Which Would Have Overridden Local Development Control, Fails Thanks to tenants, tenants rights, housing justice organizations and our allies, we won. The vote was against SB 50 today. Here is a good explanation of why 46 tenant and housing justice groups signed up to oppose SB 50.
DetailsScott Wiener Takes More Real Estate Money Than Any Other Politician In The California Legislature https://knock-la.com/scott-wiener-takes-more-real-estate-money-than-any-other-politician-in-the-california-legislature-713bd9556efc A group of unhoused mothers from Moms 4 Housing disrupt a press conference for Scott Wiener’s proposed bill, SB 50. (Photo by the Housing Rights Committee of SF) The numbers have been crunched: State Senator Scott Wiener received…
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