San Francisco Tenants Rights Group Says Illegal Use Of Unit Evictions On The Rise
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— A new report, released by a tenants rights group in San Francisco this week, finds while Ellis Act evictions dropped nearly 50 percent in 2014, illegal eviction attempts are on the rise in the city.
Using numbers from San Francisco City & County Rent Board's Annual Eviction report, The San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition finds that illegal use evictions skyrocketed 117 percent.
The tenant's rights group has launched a new campaign to better educate apartment dwellers.
"Landlords [are] giving people three-day notices for lease violations or for nuisances often in languages that tenants don't speak," said Sarah Sherburn Zimmer with Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco.
She said tenants can't wait for city and state leaders to get the message that this is a humanitarian crisis in big cities and that they need to take the initiative to become more educated on the topic.
"All the tenants in San Francisco need to understand that an owner has to manage a building to the health and welfare of everybody in that building," said Janan New, executive director of the San Francisco Apartment Association.
She said her clients take no joy in putting people in the streets and as far as she knows, evictions in the city are done legally and with cause.
