Landlord will not evict 98-year-old woman, after all

[Ichingcarpenter]

The San Francisco real estate firm charged by activists with evicting a 98-year-old woman will allow the woman to remain in her home, the firm’s founder announced Friday.

Protesters cross the street as they approach Urban Green Investments during a protest organized by Eviction Free SF against David McCloskey at his company, Urban Green Investments. (Leah Millis, The Chronicle)





On Wednesday, dozens demonstrated outside the offices of Urban Green Investments, whose founder, David McCloskey, protesters with Eviction Free SF said was responsible for the evictions of people throughout the city. Protesters said the company has used the Ellis Act to repeatedly evict low-income tenants around San Francisco, flipping properties to cash in on the city’s booming, tech-spurred real estate market.

According to Eviction Free SF, those being evicted included a 98-year-old Dolores Street resident named Mary Phillips. On Friday, however, an e-mail from McCloskey said that Phillips would not be evicted. The firm said that they had never in fact intended to evict Phillips in the first place, though the company did not respond to request for comment on the matter at the time of the protest.

Below is the statement in full:


http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/07/11/landlord-will-not-evict-98-year-old-woman-after-all/#25025101=0

[MADem]

1. "Urban Green Investments" my ass.

They give themselves a trendy name that suggests they're hip and environmental, when what they actually are is a bunch of greedy Cheneys, predatory bastards looking to enhance the misery of the least of those among us in order to make a greasy, slimy buck.

They only backed down because the equation wasn't working for them--the amount of bad publicity they were getting for fucking over a 98 year old woman wasn't worth the value of the property they were yanking out from under her.

If that tenant had been 68 instead of 98, I wonder if so many people would have cared? Would people have turned up for someone that age being screwed out of their home?