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Tagged with: Housing Rights Committee

Who wants to evict a 100-year-old?

Peter Owens feels hurt. That’s what he said in the courtroom to Tommi Avicolli Mecca, a tenant-rights activist. Mecca has spent months fighting for...

Landlord tries to justify evicting 100-year-old

Iris Canada’s story has been in the media a lot in the past six months, ever since that afternoon in March when her niece,...

Celebrating a fighter for justice

  More than 400 people, maybe 500, packed the Unitarian Church last night for a memorial celebrating the life of Eileen Hansen, the activist, fighter,...

Why allowing more housing makes property more expensive

Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, director of the Housing Rights Committee, stood on the steps of City Hall yesterday morning and explained why allowing the free market...

Eileen Hansen, fighter for the Good Fight, has died and we all miss her

San Francisco lost a fighter, a progressive leader, and a friend to many of us April 29 when Eileen Hansen died of cancer. She...

The lessons of last fall’s Airbnb campaign

Last month, at its annual meeting in Puerto Rico, the American Association of Political Consultants gave the $10M Airbnb-financed No on F campaign its...

99-year-old gets to stay in her home, for now

The 99-year old who is facing eviction got at least a one-week reprieve today, and there may be a deal to keep her in...

Seriously? Evicting a 99-year-old?

Supporters of a 99-year-old woman facing eviction from a Page Street apartment rallied in front of the Superior Court building this afternoon asking that...

The eviction nightmare may be slowing, thanks to tenant advocates

Last year we reported on the surge of evictions devastating this city. As 2015 began, San Francisco’s Rent Board reported that increasing numbers of...

As city debates deal, Google bus protests continue

A few hours before the Board of Supes debated the future of the Google bus program, anti-eviction activists blocked six buses, demonstrating that public...