The Coalition for Code Enforcement says thousands are shivering in apartments and residential hotels because The City’s building inspection department is failing to enforce its own laws.
The Coalition for Code Enforcement says thousands are shivering in apartments and residential hotels because The City’s building inspection department is failing to enforce its own laws.
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.
Buildings and units with significant code violations or those erected illegally are found to remain unabated by the Bureau of Building Inspection for years.
Tenants turn to the Bureau of Building Inspection to start enforcing building codes.
Renters protest at BBI and City Hall for action to be done about the code violations they are forced to live with in San Francisco low income hotels and SROs.
The Coalition for Code Enforcement outlines the failures of the BBI and Code Enforcement.
Tenants advocacy groups file a lawsuit against the Bureau of Building Inspection.
Tenants activists file a lawsuit against San Francisco to enforce building codes.
Tenants filed suit charging the city with allegedly ignoring code violations and placing the lives of thousands of low-income and disabled residents at risk.
A judge orders the Bureau of Building Inspection to meet code enforcement deadlines–a win for tenants and their advocacy groups.