Daily Journal Archives - Tenderloin Housing Clinic

1990

Residential Hotel Can’t Be Converted for Tourist Use

by Dee Ziegler

The then owner of the Abigail Hotel, now managed by THC, was denied an attempt at converting the building to tourist use under the Residential Hotel Unit Conversion and Demolition Ordinance.

1990

Housing Clinic Sues to Halt Room Conversion

THC is the first agency to file lawsuits against hotel owners following the newly strengthened Residential Hotel Unit Conversion and Demolition Ordinance.

1991

Hotelier Ordered Jailed Wednesday

by Dee Ziegler

Hotelier Adam Sparks is sentenced to jail for violating the city’s Residential Hotel Unit Demolition and Conversion Ordinance.

1991

S.F. Hotelier Is Barred From Renting to Tourists

by Dolores Ziegler

SF Judge issues a permanent injunction barring Hotel Owner Adam Sparks from renting rooms to tourists. A win for hotel conversion and zoning laws – showing they can be enforced.

1993

Inspectors Trashed Reports, Activist Says

by Dolores Ziegler

The San Francisco City Attorney’s office is called in to sort out a dispute between the city’s Bureau of Building Inspection (BBI) and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, who accused the BBI of throwing away public documents related to unsafe rental property.

1993

Homeowners and Activists Call For a Watchdog on Housing

by Edward Robinson

San Francisco’s Bureau of Building Investigation comes under further attack for not enforcing its own laws and moves closer to being overseen by a commission.

1993

Hotelier Loses Conversion Bid

by Edward Robinson

In a victory for affordable housing advocates, the SF Board of Supervisors rejected a bid for hotels to carve an exemption from a financial provision in a controversial housing ordinance. Leaving owners responsible to pay a conversion fee.

1993

Nothing Radical About Hotel Law

by Randy Shaw

Randy Shaw addresses the San Francisco Residential Hotel Ordinance and how if it’s deemed “confiscation” residential zoning would be all but abolished.