{"id":65249,"date":"2025-04-26T18:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T01:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=65249"},"modified":"2025-04-28T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:46:20","slug":"sf-immigrant-rent-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/sf-immigrant-rent-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant tenants lead rent strike movement against San Francisco\u2019s largest landlords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Johana Ram\u00edrez has lived in her tiny Tenderloin studio for 17 years. The walls are cracked, the kitchen is infested with cockroaches, closet doors hang loose, and broken tiles litter the floor. Still, she sweeps, scrubs and does her best to keep things tidy \u2014 because it\u2019s home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past two years, Ram\u00edrez has been on rent strike with her neighbors at 434 Leavenworth, demanding basic repairs, pest control, and compensation for unlivable conditions. Instead, they received eviction notices. Now, the remaining tenants are taking their landlord, Ballast Investments \u2014 the city\u2019s largest residential landlord \u2014 to the Rent Board, San Francisco\u2019s arbiter in conflicts over fair rent and evictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lea esta historia en espa\u00f1ol.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI fight for myself, yes. But we have to set a precedent to protect others like me,\u201d Ram\u00edrez said, seated inside her 370-square-foot home in the building known as the Rainbow Flag Apartments. \u201cThis landlord has hundreds of apartments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Johana Ram\u00edrez shows the unsafe living conditions she and her neighbors face daily: a broken window that won’t stay open and a cockroach infestation spreading inside her Tenderloin studio in San Francisco, Calif. Photo: Beatriz Johnston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Around the corner, another tenant association is also on rent strike. The 781 O\u2019Farrell strikers are preparing to meet their landlord, Veritas Investments, in eviction court later this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backed by private equity, both Ballast Investments and Veritas Investments have amassed huge shares of San Francisco\u2019s rent-controlled housing stock, especially in the Tenderloin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This neighborhood is home to thousands of non-English-speaking, working-class immigrants who have lived in their rent-controlled apartments for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe neighborhood\u2019s Latinos, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Southeast Asian residents \u2014 we\u2019re all screwed in the same way,\u201d Ram\u00edrez said. \u201cWe\u2019re all too poor to afford anything better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since corporate ownership took over, long-term, non-English-speaking tenants like Ram\u00edrez have become prime targets for displacement in favor of higher-paying tenants. Language itself, tenant advocates say, is being weaponized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At both buildings on rent strike, Veritas removed bilingual onsite managers, posted critical notices only in English, and instructed staff to speak English only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tenants and supporters rally outside the San Francisco Superior Courthouse on April 23, 2025, demanding better living conditions. The demonstration was organized by the Housing Rights Committee. Photo by Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote\/CatchLight Local<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTenants have been hit with fees after being left in the dark about rent changes,\u201d said Lizzy Kramer, spokesperson for the Housing Rights Committee, a San Francisco nonprofit organizing renters into building-by-building tenant associations like Ram\u00edrez\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco law requires all landlords, public and private, to provide housing free of garbage, cockroaches, rats, and vermin. Plumbing and gas facilities must be in good order and must provide hot and cold running water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tenants have the right to report landlords to city agencies, to withhold rent, or to \u201crepair and deduct.\u201d Landlords are prohibited from retaliating against tenants for exercising these rights; any eviction or rent increase within six months of a tenant complaint can be scrutinized as potential retaliation by a judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, San Francisco\u2019s Language Access Ordinance (LAO) only requires public landlords to provide translation and interpretation services for important documents and notices \u2014 not private landlords like Veritas and Ballast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some landlords openly celebrate the loophole. \u201cDo you know how many languages we\u2019d have to translate?\u201d one Veritas employee told El Tecolote<\/em> anonymously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From broken closet doors to loose, cracked tiles in the bathroom, Johana Ram\u00edrez\u2019s studio reflects years of neglected maintenance in San Francisco, Calif. Photo: Beatriz Johnston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A rising tenant movement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rent strikes are the most visible edge of a growing tenant movement fueled by the Union-at-Home Ordinance, a 2022 city law that mandates landlords negotiate with tenant associations formed by a majority of a building\u2019s residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTenants have always formed associations,\u201d said Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, lead tenant organizer at the Housing Rights Committee. \u201cBut Union-at-Home has solidified and sped up the process of tenant associations being formed.\u201d Within a year of the ordinance passing, 55 buildings had organized associations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo have a process that\u2019s clear and written out has been amazing,\u201d Sherburn-Zimmer said. \u201cSome landlords, just at the sight of a tenant association, start obeying the law. But others, like Veritas, are hard to get to the table [to negotiate].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, tenants are increasing the pressure on corporate landlords like Veritas and Ballast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tenants and supporters rally outside the San Francisco Superior Courthouse on April 23, 2025, demanding better living conditions. The demonstration was organized by the Housing Rights Committee. Photo by Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote\/CatchLight Local<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Coordinated campaigns \u2014 and small victories<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In mid-April, Ram\u00edrez joined a citywide call-in campaign coordinated by the Housing Rights Committee, targeting Veritas, Ballast, and Ballast\u2019s management company, Brick + Timber. Every day, tenants called a different landlord or manager, delivering the same \u201cbusiness is not as usual\u201d message to show their strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tenants from 11 Veritas buildings also protested at the city\u2019s Rent Board in solidarity with the 781 O\u2019Farrell tenants, Sherburn-Zimmer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on their labor organizing experience, tenants have signed petitions, occupied landlord offices, recruited political allies, and, at the most extreme, waged rent strikes to force landlords to negotiate and make repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some cases, tenants won more than they bargained for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 320 14th Street \u2014 a 16-unit building once owned by Veritas \u2014 mostly Latinx tenants endured years of mold, cockroach infestations, and broken floors and windows. In 2022, they joined a citywide rent strike against Veritas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later that year, Veritas defaulted on $1 billion in loans tied to more than 95 residential properties \u2014 including 320 14th Street and Ram\u00edrez\u2019s 434 Leavenworth building, which Ballast later bought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after acquiring 320 14th Street, Prado Investments met with the tenant association, forgave tenants\u2019 rent debt, made critical repairs, and sold the building to the nonprofit San Francisco Community Land Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Land Trust ownership, rents were recalculated based on income. Luis Zen\u00f3n, a bakery worker, and his partner, Sandra Martinez, a McDonald\u2019s employee, saw their rent drop from $2,100 to $1,650 a month for a one-bedroom \u2014 a 21% decrease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, given San Francisco\u2019s soaring real estate prices, it\u2019s unlikely that the Land Trust \u2014 which operates similarly to a worker cooperative \u2014 will be able to expand much beyond the 16 residential properties it currently owns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The high cost of fighting back<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite small victories, the cost of organizing remains high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Ram\u00edrez\u2019s building, only six of the original 30 rent strikers remain \u2014 all of them monolingual immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know they made agreements with the landlord out of stress,\u201d Ram\u00edrez said. Her depression has worsened throughout the ordeal, but she says she cannot leave San Francisco because she depends on the city\u2019s LGBTQ health services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis has been very difficult for me, but the situation is just not fair,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her struggle is coming to a head. The Rent Board ordered Ballast and the 434 Leavenworth tenants to meet before a decision is rendered on Wednesday, April 30. Meanwhile, tenants at 781 O\u2019Farrell are preparing for trial in eviction court on Monday, April 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe stakes for Tenderloin residents are huge,\u201d said Sherburn-Zimmer. \u201cThese tenants are fighting for the heart of the city right now, at a point when people need San Francisco like they\u2019ve never needed it before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Ram\u00edrez, the fight continues \u2014 not just for herself, but for tenants citywide who, like her, refuse to be pushed out quietly.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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