Tenants Rights Group Priced Out of SF Mission

[KamaAina]

http://missionlocal.org/2015/12/tenants-rights-group-priced-out-of-sf-mission/

The Housing Rights Committee is leaving its location at 417 South Van Ness Ave. after facing a prohibitive rent increase with the expiration of its five-year lease. The organization is the third tenants rights group, after the Eviction Defense Collaborative and Tenants Together, to be displaced due to rent increases in the last few weeks.

“It was just not economically feasible for us to pay that kind of rent,” said Tommi Avicolli Mecca, an organizer with the group for 15 years. “We had a five-year lease at our location and it got up and then the rent got jacked up.”

Avicolli Mecca was not sure of the specific rent increase, and the executive director of the group, Sara Shortt, was not immediately available for comment. The move comes on the heels of Shortt’s departure from the organization for Los Angeles.

The incoming director, Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, said the housing group was unable to secure a long-term lease for their growing organization.

[JackInGreen]

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