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Tenants Protest at Mission Hotel

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Protest at Mission Hotel against illegal evictions.
<b>Where:</b> Mission Hotel, 16th and South Van Ness<br><b>When:</b> Thursday, January 24, 2001, 11 AM<br><br>
Join San Francisco's tenant rights organizations in a press conference to protest a rash of evictions coming from buildings operated by City Housing Inc (CHI). The housing provider, a spin-off from Tenderloin Housing Clinic (THC), receives money from the city to master-lease residential hotels and provide supportive services to impoverished tenants. Currently CHI has several unlawful detainers (eviction notices) filed against its' tenants.<br><br>Noticing the jump in CHI evictions, tenant groups such as Housing Rights Committee (HRC) , and St. Peter's Housing Committee and the Mission Agenda entered into
good-faith discussions about the problem. Through these negotiations, the tenants were given payment plans to catch-up on back rent. CHI agreed not to file eviction notices. Despite this agreement, CHI proceeded with the court process.
<br><br>"City Housing refuses to take any responsibility for how their mismanagement affects the lives of Mission Hotel residents, and their future housing. These unlawful detainers will be on their records and make it virtually impossible for them to find new housing." Remarked Robert Haaland of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco.
<Br><br>The Eviction Defense Collaborative had contacted City Housing and told them that they would tender checks in the amount of $1,500 if City Housing would agree to payment plans with the tenants. City Housing did not respond. In particular, EDC offered to pay City Housing $1500 to assist Delisa Smith, a mother of a ten month old baby. Delisa offered to pay $500 and the remaining $127 would be paid later. Instead, City
Housing issued an unlawful detainer.<br><br>Nick Pagoulatos, from St. Peter's Housing Committee,
said, "All of the tenants that were served with
unlawful detainers were willing to enter into payment plans. Their own policy states that once a tenant enters into a payment plan, the eviction process stops. City Housing did not follow their own policy."<br><br>Ironically, the purported advocate for these tenants, Program Director of Tenderloin Housing, Carrie Abbot, is also the Executive Director of City Housing, the
management corporation that is evicting them.
<br><br>This event is co-sponsored by St. Peter's Housing Committee, Housing Rights Committee, Mission Agenda, Mission SRO Collaborative, the Coalition on Homelessness (Housing Work Group), SF Tenants Union, and the Eviction Defense Collaborative.
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