San Francisco Eviction Assistance Unit Allows Sheriff’s Department To Assist the Community

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The SF Examiner explores the work of the “Eviction Assistance Unit”, which allows the Sheriff’s Department to interact with tenants to be displaced, to provide them with housing resources. As the Examiner explains, the unit was created by former Sheriff Michael Hennessey, following a tradition of San Francisco Sheriffs who look for alternatives to mechanically carrying out their duty to evict tenants. (The famous example was the refusal of former Sheriff Richard Hongisto to evict a large number of occupants from the International Hotel in the 1970s. This resulted in his going to jail for contempt, and it generated pro-tenant sentiment that led to the adoption of eviction control protections in the Rent Ordinance.)

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