Why SF is suing single room occupancy hotel owners in Chinatown
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- One tenant says there's an ongoing rat and roach problem, the ceiling leaks, and she doesn't have hot water but advocates believe the lawsuit from the City Attorney will be a game changer. STORY: abc7ne.ws/3PT3Cmp
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So close down small housing and people will be on the street. More homeless coming soon.
Before the 1980s, San Francisco had men's hotels and women's boarding houses.
And they also have them after the 1980s, that is the problem it is the same buildings it is the same rooms and they still haven't been fixed up they've just changed the name and the owners, right this minute all of these buildings SRO buildings are being rented as brand new renovated rooms to people for probably a few extra $100 as they kicked out all those old people and moving in new people there's ads all over right now for those rso rooms in Chinatown hundred dollars to $1,000
Ngl for $300 a month.... it doesn't look that bad.
Its subsidized meaning the owner gets the full market rent (tenant portion + local subsidy). The 300 is tenant portion. So it really owner's negligence to not address those issues.
Whaaaaa....So we working ppl tax payers are actually paying most of their rent?? Can we couch surf there
Unless you're super privileged never earned or have any value in life and somehow people are paying and to support you and subsidized in your lifestyle and you want to live in a place like this with the microwave a bed and warmth and water and security and still complain, if that person had any value in their life and that's what they would have they have no value they provided no value to anyone including themselves and they are being subsidized to live there and complaining it's the same as migrants complaining about everything that's given to them if you don't like what's going on earn more and have more value and people will give you more value for what you're worth
That lady should go have to live on the street in Chinatown and see how nice it is there in the gutter with all the thousands of people that are living on the Streets of San Francisco in the tenderloin as an example and ask them how the roads and rat problem is, I'm positive most of those people on the street are also on some type of homeless housing list just waiting to get into one of those Sr rooms
after the fix, the tenants will face rent increase
What do you expect for $300 a room? Freaking hotel service? $300 can't even pay to replace a light switch or fixture. In NYC 1 room would be $800-$1000 at the low end, $1500-$2000 mid range.
Her portion of the rent is $300 per month. The balance of the monthly rent is subsidized.
I don't understand some elderly people. They work (I assume) all their lives and don't have a pot to P in. That $300 is probably SSD that's the minimum she can get. And it's possible she's "undocumented" been here all her life and never got papers.
@@Chicago48 No. She has Low English Proficiency. That severely limits her job opportunities.
@@hppavilionf50 San Francisco has Cantonese-speaking businesses, Chinese-language newspapers, Cantonese language radio, Cantonese and Mandarin language television, Chinese-language voting materials, Cantonese-language resources, etc. The population is 33.3% Chinese-American. There's little incentive for immigrants living in SF with low education to learn English. My immigrant Chinese mother has lived in San Francisco for over 60 years and immigrant grandmothers have lived in SF for over 50 years. They are all naturalized U.S. citizens and speak little to no English.
@@Chicago48because some elderly people are called foreigners and migrants and I heard in the United States of America everything is free and wonderful
This is likely because of rent control. When you can’t charge market rates, the landlords don’t have incentive to fix because they aren’t making much money.
You are exactly right San Francisco is the worst place doe landlord in the city
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They can sell the property. Problem solved.
@@Chicago48I’m sure there are many that do. That’s also the reason why you end up with a housing shortage. Nobody wants to buy and rent because there’s no incentive. And the next owner who buys it will be in the same problem.
This would be true if it wasn't in chinatown most of those landlords are scumbags they charge upwards to 1000 a month for this tiny space with no private bathroom or kitchen space. I'd be on your side in any other situation but this isn't like what you're referring to these landlords are simply slum lords.
Landlords need to be able to charge enough rent to fix issues. A repair guy will charge $300 just to look at the stove.
Its subsidized meaning the owner gets the full market rent (tenant portion + local subsidy). The 300 is tenant portion. So it really owner's negligence to not address those issues.
SROs are supposed to be PSH. Investors bought the building and likely tried to force them out so they could convert them to market rate tech housing.
This looks like the place that was locking out tenants. Another tried to force them out for hanging laundry - something they've done for decades
@@sysoprit’s also probably rent controlled too so he can’t get market rates.
The rent is subsidized by the city. The owner is likely taking in nearly $1000 a month for that tiny room.
@@empirestate8791very likely. SF is expensive.
I wonder where all these complaining tenants will be living once the SRO hotels are shut down.
There are probably enough people in that building who can pool their money and fix the place themselves. They can get paint, they can get screw drivers. Sometimes you can't wait for the LL.
Maybe they should migrate to South America and Asian countries I hear there's a lot of open availability spots there
@@Chicago48I think you misunderstand absolutely how lazy the average human is😅 why do you think all these lazy deadbeats live off of my tax dollars for $300 a month and do nothing, I'm homeless I own a mountaintop 21 acres I could put 10 of those buildings 20 of those buildings with thousands of each one of those people in those buildings on my property😮😮😮 what you think about that? I got nowhere to shower today I'm in San Francisco Park can I come over? What type of person do you want in your neighborhood who do you want to support your local American a hard working supporting your community person, or community full of foreigners and migrants and people that are looking for handouts? I'm at work right now, I have nowhere to shower I have nowhere to eat I have nowhere to go to the bathroom, sure I got a homeless housing list almost a decade ago and I could sit around and wait for that fantasy and tell you and anyone how you owe me in life, or I can still work, just have to lie about an address, just have to lie about a few things so people don't think that you're poor homeless because of course they don't want to give you a job if they realize you haven't taken a shower today either or may not be able to show up to work know you got to lie about all those things,so now you're working and you got some money and now you can pay for gas in the car and now what do you know maybe a few hundred dollars a month $500 down and you got 21 acres in Northern California $300 a month, I'm sure you've heard the stories homeless people got nothing in life and need everything so you know how hard that might be imagine yourself writing down what I just said that you own all of this stuff and you have nowhere to take a shower and now we got to read this here problem about this lady in her 300 room with her microwave😢, I have nowhere to go to the bathroom today I can't go to Chinatown and use the bathroom there's no public bathrooms there, but I'm allowed to go there and work 3:00 in the morning I'm driving down those streets by those Red lanterns, I didn't see that lady out there working, so today's news sros for rent, hopefully they kick all those deadbeats out because there's tens of thousands of people like me standing right outside those buildings just waiting to get in
Indian owners.
yep
Looks like sros are gonna be gone soon
This is why we have major problems with nasty viral infections & shit happening. People have just lost their total MFin minds.
I bet they pay $300 a month and wonders why landlord isn't paying for repairs. [edit] oh shit she did pay $300 a month. HAHAHAH
Its subsidized meaning the owner gets the full market rent (tenant portion + local subsidy). the 300 is tenant portion. so it really owner's negligence to not address those issues.
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the old tenants might pay low rent, but the new tenants easliy pay 900+ a month for a small room.
regardless how much they pay for the rent, when there is something broken the landlord has to repair it.
especially it's for safety concerns.
@@jackpop4133 $900 a month? DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH PROPERTY TAX COST?? Easily $25k for that property. You poor people think landlord have $0 expenses which explains why you a poor to begin with, low education. If they are paying $900 a month the landlord is operating HUGE negative. Man you people have no clue no wonder you are renters.
@@jackpop4133 Its only when an existing tenant that moves out is when the landlord can raise the rent on the unit without being restricted by rent control.
Maybe this is the beginning of the play to get SRO zoning eliminated so all of them will be demolished and replaced by luxury apartments that will rent for $5k per month. People wonder why the tenderloin has not been gentrified. Well it is because of the zoning for SRO. If you think the homeless problem is bad wait until SROs in the tenderloin get red-tagged and everyone is out on the street. This is the problem with "affordable" housing. The rents are too low to pay for upkeep and ever increasing taxes, non-paying tenants, repairs, etc.
Yep and then the government steps in and tells every single landlord throughout the country that it's illegal for them to collect rent from their deadbeat tenants😅😅
What??? She only gets $300 a month? Is that Social Security? She's probably been here all her life and that's all she gets?
She only pays 30% of her income in rent. Her social security check might be $1000 a month.
Chinatown used to have 5 cent beds. Mattresses on the floor in a big room, Opium dens, and brothels. Make San Francisco Great Again! Review the Infamous Barbary Coast!!!
Say No to Drugs
@@GovernmentIssued free Country. Why make a drug user a criminal? We seen how that idea worked with Marijuana and alcohol.
@@GovernmentIssued the dea could be changed into criminal investigation. Solve some burglary or a real crime. Let the Cartels do for San Francisco what the Mob did for Las Vegas. Open an adult entertainment district.
They still do but the beds are the ones we're talking about in these SRO hotels they are $50 a night and they are for one bed in a room with two to eight other people and bunk beds and people pay up to $50 a night for one of those bunk bed spaces, those bunk beds bedspace starts at about 25.00 for bed space in an SRO room with multiple other people, it's reasonable to assume every single one of those people could be a drug addict and smoking fenadol or some type of meth or something in their bed therefore reminiscent of the opium den😮
@@mrhumboldthippy better in the SRO, than the Park in front of everyone. Do they have women in those SROs? :)
Those place look horrid for “first world” tier Bay Area
If you think that’s bad, have you seen downtown where the homeless are?
These slumlords get away with this crap in NYC, but I'm glad SF is enforcing its laws. The slumlord strategy:: buy cheap building (usually with rent-control) , force low-income tenants out, then turn building into luxury rentals with luxury rents. The methods uses to get tenants out: 1) make life miserable by not doing repairs & maintenance or (2) not accepting their rent checks so they could try to evict claiming non-payment of rent. Be warned SF. In NY, these slumlords are typically Persians (Iranians). Think "Shahs of Sunset" in the Bay.
O so it's a city founding site. So why is the city not covering the cost for the up Kee
The property is not owned by the city. It is privately owned.
@@RaymondHng technically your right, HSH funds most SROs. And HSH is to give money for them to keep up with operations. Most of the SRO chronically underfunded hence why so many of the elevators breakdown. As you have seen in the news
Good reporting
I hope those landlords get sued to the max. These are people living there.