SANA Francisco (KON) – The Prosecutor’s Office in San Francisco said that the owners of three hotels in the Chinese district will have to pay $ 810,000 in civil sanctions to force tenants to live in “unsafe and unhealthy living conditions” for several years.
City lawyer David Cheo said the settlement agreement resolves a lawsuit on the condition of real estate that SRO had caused “public inconvenience”.
City lawyer Chew said that Jeff Apineudet, Shelindra Davdara, and Camelich Patel own hotel property – located in 1449 Powell Street, 790 Vallego Street, and 912 Jackson Street – this house 85 bedrooms. However, since 2018, Cheo said that many of the city’s departments issued notifications of violation (November) for health, safety and violations in the three hotels, saying that their owners “have been transferred illegally or combined or adding unauthorized SRO rooms.”
Cheo said that the list of laundry violations in property includes “incisive action, broken plumbing and rust, open electrical wires, insect therapy and rodents, mold and mold, unhealthy common toilets, lost emergency devices, annoying lines, annoying lines, carbon detection detection. With lead risk, damaged ceilings, floors and walls.”
“This will not be a lesson for all owners who benefit from the suffering of their tenants.” “In San Francisco, there are consequences for depriving tenants of a safe and healthy place to live. I am proud of our collective actions carrying owners and speaking many issues in property.”
Cheo said that the three owners will have to fix the conditions in the three SRO hotels according to the settlement agreement.