Laws in place to preserve residential hotels fail to stop their conversion into tourist hotels. The Tenderloins cost per week at residential hotels skyrockets due to their scarcity.
Laws in place to preserve residential hotels fail to stop their conversion into tourist hotels. The Tenderloins cost per week at residential hotels skyrockets due to their scarcity.
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.
The Residential Hotel Conversion Ordinance is under fire for being “unconstitutional” – Tenants rights groups speak upon its importance to preserving affordable housing.
The Cornell Hotel wants to convert 31 units from residential to tourist use. The Planning Dept initially recommends disapproval of the request but then flips (after Mayor Frank Jordan intervened) to supporting the conversion. The conversion would mean a loss of over $1,000,000 in funds for non-profit housing.
Supervisors approve legislation aimed at reducing hotelization.
Tenants Picket the Shorenstein’s hotel after over two dozen residents are threatened with eviction.
The fist enforcement in 6 years of the City’s Apartment Conversion Ordinance is made. This, recovering 117 apartments and 19 SROs from tourist rental.