On October 11, 2018, 68 tenants of Veritas Investments, Inc. filed a lawsuit against the mega-landlord alleging violations of the S.F. Rent Ordinance, State law, and housing codes. This is one of the biggest lawsuits ever filed by tenants in San Francisco. Plaintiffs are alleging that Veritas and their founder/CEO Yat Pang Au have implemented […]

Report released detailing the impacts of the law on San Francisco residents Tenants and housing justice advocates from across San Francisco rallied outside of a Veritas Investments building to demand the Repeal of Costa Hawkins and an end to harassment and evictions at the hands of speculator landlords like Yat-Pang Au, CEO of Veritas Investments. […]

  In May 2017, the San Francisco Planning Department released the 5th Housing Balance Report, covering the ten-year period from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2016.  The reports track the proportion of all new affordable housing units built to the total number of all new housing units for a 10-year period, with the goal […]

Approximately 400 tenants, organizers, and advocates came together last weekend for the biggest statewide tenants’ rights convention in recent memory. Hosted by Tenants Together, Homes for All, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), and Right to the City Alliance, the California Renter Power convention was energizing and inspiring. Most cities don’t have laws that […]

Mission Local and Sing Tao both published articles highlighting the SFADC’s roll-out of Know-Your Rights ads on city buses and bus shelters across San Francisco. Buses and bus shelters feature tenant rights information in the city’s five major languages.  A wide range of tenant rights groups collaborated to create the campaign, as well as a […]

The San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition (SFADC) has just released a series of creative advertisements focused on rights for the city’s renters.  The rollout is part of the statewide Renter’s Week of Action.  Buses and bus shelters across the city will feature tenant rights information in the city’s five major languages.  A wide range of tenant […]

September 23 & 24, 2017 • 8:00 AM- 5PM at Alameda High School, Alameda, CA California Renter Power 2017 is a statewide assembly of renters and tenant’s rights organizers fighting for housing justice! With historic fights for rent control and just cause coming from the people, we are in a movement moment. A bill to repeal […]

San Francisco tenants are experiencing high rents, a subsidized, affordable, and below-market-rate housing shortage, and an eviction epidemic. A month of tenant conventions in neighborhoods across the city brought over 650 tenants together to learn about how speculation is affecting their neighborhoods as well as ways to interrupt the process and fight back. In May […]

March 16, 2017 By Lita Blanc and Susan Solomon The housing crisis for San Francisco teachers and para-educators is bad and it’s getting worse. But that doesn’t mean that to address it we should upend years of affordable-housing policy that’s invaluable to the families we serve. That is why we are troubled by the latest […]

EVICTION = ELDER ABUSE:  Tell Sheriff Hennessy NOT to evict our beloved elder! Yesterday, Judge Robertson ordered Sheriff Hennessy to evict Ms. Iris Canada anytime without notice. This order could cause serious harm and even death, since Iris is in fragile health. Imagine if you were 100 years old and knew the sheriff could come […]