Information on Tenants Legal Rights
Tenant Times
Volume XXI, Number 2
Spring 2000
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Measure To Stop Evictions For Condos Headed For Ballot
Tenants are collecting signatures to put a measure on the ballot to stop real estate speculators from using loopholes in the condo conversion law to evict tenants. The measure will also make the current limit on condo conversions—which is due to expire December 31— permanent.Tenants Protest Condos 'DELIVERED VACANT"
The classifieds these days are full of ads for condos and condo-type units. Most if them scream "DELIVERED VACANT" or "ALL VACANT."
Tenants toured a rash of these in the Lower Haight and disrupted one open house.Rent Board Limits Roommate Rights To Rent Control
The Costa Hawkins state law limits the right of roommates to get rent control. The Rent Board went a step further.
Ellis Evictions Harder Under New State Law
Real estate speculators trying to evict tenants under the Ellis Act are finding themselves stymied by new law which requires 4 months notice—and one year for seniors.The Land Has Become Too Valuable For San Franciscans
To Continue Living Here
For almost 50 years, the real estate developers and speculators have been working to drive out San Francisco's low and moderate income people who grew up here and those who work here. Today it's worse than ever.Lola McKay Dies
84 year old Lola McKay found herself a symbol and inspiration for tenants as she fought her Ellis Act eviction. Her landlord, John Hickey Real Estate Brokerage, bought her 4 unit building in the Mission and then evicted all the tenants so they could convert the apartments into condos. Lola dies fighting her eviction.Tenants Must Remain Suspicious of Housing Study
Landlords wanted to "study" rent control and Mayor Brown and Sup. Amos Brown did their bidding. Tenants have to be suspicious of their motives and need to beware of pre-determined outcomes.