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Tenants

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 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

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

City Attorney preserves 76 affordable housing units through arbitration victory

January 28, 2025October 5, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Decision protects affordable housing for dozens of low- to moderate-income residents

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

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 strengthens compliance with tenant organizing law

January 28, 2025May 24, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
San Francisco’s largest landlord conforms tenant rules to Union-at-Home Ordinance

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

City Attorney sues Ingleside landlords for profiting off of unsafe units

January 9, 2024May 26, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Landlords allowed immigrant tenants to live in illegal and unsafe units

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

City Attorney sues Tenderloin SRO owner over deplorable living conditions

January 9, 2024May 20, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Landlords have neglected the property creating hazardous conditions for vulnerable residents

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

San Francisco files amicus brief urging federal court to uphold Seattle anti-discrimination law

January 9, 2024February 4, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Brief argues Seattle’s “fair chance” ordinance fights discrimination in rental housing and reduces recidivism

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Chiu and Ronen statement on court victory upholding San Francisco eviction protection law

January 9, 2024January 24, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Decision protects tenants from bad-faith rent increases and coerced evictions

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Herrera secures $245,000 settlement from Lem-Ray Properties for discriminating against low-income tenants

June 30, 2022November 1, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Lem-Ray and Chuck Post have been forced to halt their illegal practice of refusing to accept Section 8 vouchers

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

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

Appellate court upholds $2.7 million judgment against notorious landlord Kihagi

June 30, 2022December 4, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Herrera calls decision a ‘victory for San Francisco tenants’

Categories Affordable Housing, Housing & Tenant Rights, Kihagi, News, Tenants

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

Herrera wins victory for low-income tenants

June 30, 2022April 12, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Deputy City Attorneys Sara Eisenberg and Brad Russi discuss litigation strategy after winning a key procedural ruling on March 22, 2016.
Appellate court upholds SF law that prevents discrimination against Section 8 renters; Lembi-affiliated landlord, real estate broker must accept federal housing vouchers

Categories Affordable Housing, Consumer Protection, Defending S.F. Laws, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Herrera to get evictions voided, win $2.4 million judgment against notorious landlord

June 30, 2022May 3, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Court rules against abusive landlord on every count in tentative decision; pending evictions to be cancelled, allowing those tenants to remain

Categories Affordable Housing, Housing & Tenant Rights, Kihagi, News, Tenants

Herrera urges HUD to reconsider

June 30, 2022August 25, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Dennis Herrera has urged HUD Secretary Julián Castro to reverse its disapproval of of San Francisco's Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan.
S.F. City Attorney contends that the federal housing agency was “wrong as a matter of law and public policy” to reject San Francisco’s Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan

Categories Affordable Housing, Defending S.F. Laws, Housing & Tenant Rights, Land Use, Neighborhood Protection, News, Tenants

Amendments proposed to strengthen City’s short-term rental law against legal challenge

June 30, 2022July 12, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco Supervisor David Campos.
Campos and Herrera agree that modest revisions can both address platforms’ objections in federal lawsuit and fulfill the intent of a fair, enforceable ordinance

Categories Affordable Housing, Defending S.F. Laws, Housing & Tenant Rights, Land Use, News, Tenants
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