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Code Enforcement

City Attorney sues Tenderloin drug and gambling dens fronting as small businesses

April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
SFPD investigations revealed multiple Tenderloin stores operated illegal gambling dens, sold drugs, and fueled criminal activity and fencing operations

Categories Code Enforcement, News, Public Safety

City Attorney secures $810,000 from Chinatown SRO owners who profited off of unsafe units

April 8, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Settlement holds landlords accountable for allowing tenants to live in illegal and unsafe units

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

City Attorney cracks down on illegal grow houses that undermine legal cannabis market

April 21, 2025March 31, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
New lawsuits allege warehouse owners created a public nuisance and undercut law abiding cannabis businesses

Categories Code Enforcement, News

City Attorney shuts down illegal gambling dens and unsanctioned nightclubs

April 21, 2025March 19, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Recent code enforcement actions have clamped down on disruptive, illegal activity in the City’s southeast neighborhoods

Categories Code Enforcement, News

City Attorney seeks to shut down Tenderloin gambling dens

March 24, 2025October 31, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
SFPD investigation revealed two convenience stores operated illegal gambling dens, fueled drug activity, and bought and sold stolen goods

Categories Code Enforcement, Illegal Businesses, News, Public Safety

City Attorney clamps down on illegal cannabis grow houses that undermine legal cannabis market

January 28, 2025October 24, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
New lawsuit alleges owner and property manager of two Bayview warehouses allowed tenants to evade state and local laws and illegally cultivate over 5,800 cannabis plants

Categories Code Enforcement, Illegal Businesses, News

City Attorney sues Bayview landlord for profiting off of unsafe living conditions

January 28, 2025August 8, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Landlord neglected the property and allowed tenants to live in illegal and unsafe units

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

City Attorney secures million dollar victories in code enforcement lawsuits

February 19, 2025July 26, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Judgments bring accountability to landlords who profited off unsafe units

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Chiu bans unscrupulous towing company from receiving City contracts

January 28, 2025July 23, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Auto Towing, a company that profited from illegally towing parked cars, is debarred and prohibited from doing business with the City

Categories Code Enforcement, Consumer Protection, News, Public Integrity

Chiu suspends unscrupulous towing company after owners are charged with benefits fraud

January 28, 2025February 6, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Auto Towing business owners, who profited from illegally towing parked cars, were recently criminally charged in a welfare fraud scheme

Categories Code Enforcement, Consumer Protection, News, Public Integrity

City Attorney secures court victory against landlords who profited off of unsafe units

January 28, 2025December 13, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Court order holds landlords accountable for allowing tenants to live in illegal and unsafe units

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

San Francisco sues Chinatown SRO owners over unsafe living conditions

January 28, 2025October 10, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Landlords neglected properties creating hazardous conditions for tenants and neighbors

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Chiu moves to block unscrupulous towing company from City contracts

January 28, 2025August 3, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
 Auto Towing profited from illegally towing parked cars and installing fraudulent, misleading signs on private property

Categories Code Enforcement, Consumer Protection, News, Public Integrity

City Attorney sues Bernal Heights landlord over fire hazards and illegal conversions

January 28, 2025June 2, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Landlord illegally converted units leading to serious fire safety risks

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

City Attorney Chiu sues companies responsible for illegal dumping on Treasure Island

January 9, 2024April 26, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
City seeks damages to cover the $200,000 it spent cleaning up the illegally-dumped material

Categories Code Enforcement, News

City Attorney, SFPD shut down second illegal nightclub operating during pandemic

July 3, 2020 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
As SF sees concerning rise in COVID-19 cases, illegal nightclub is shut down before the start of the long Fourth of July weekend

Categories Code Enforcement, News, Public Safety

Herrera uncovers $420,000 in check fraud by former building commission president

March 12, 2020 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Forged permit scandal at Santos & Urrutia Associates grows to nine properties

Categories Code Enforcement, Defending S.F. Laws, Neighborhood Protection, News

Herrera statement on California Supreme Court denying appeal by predatory landlord Anne Kihagi

June 30, 2022March 13, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
“The court forcefully affirmed San Francisco’s interest in protecting public health, and repeatedly emphasized the likelihood that the sugary soda lobby’s case would fall flat,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera said.
Herrera says  ‘residents will finally be able to live their lives in peace’

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, Kihagi, News, Tenants

Herrera shutters illegal Airbnb hotel where party became gunfight

June 30, 2022November 19, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
The owners will pay $185,000 in civil penalties and be barred from any short-term rentals of the Bernal Heights property for five years

Categories Affordable Housing, Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Public Safety

Herrera secures $2.25 million from scofflaw property owners over illegal Airbnb rentals

June 30, 2022November 5, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
“The court forcefully affirmed San Francisco’s interest in protecting public health, and repeatedly emphasized the likelihood that the sugary soda lobby’s case would fall flat,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera said.
Owners also barred from short-term rentals on any of their properties until May 2025

Categories Affordable Housing, Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants
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