Ellis Act

Since 1986, about 5% of West Hollywood’s rent-stabilized apartment units have been removed from the rental market through the Ellis Act. One in ten units was ultimately returned to the market. The rest were converted into or replaced by a larger number of owner-occupied, market-rate and low-income affordable-housing units. That is according to a new analysis by WeHo by the Numbers based on a recent city report.

Ronnie Johnson, 49, doesn’t know what she will do if she is evicted from her rent-controlled loft in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood. She’s thinking about moving in with her parents in Washington state or trying to start over in a new city.

In February, Johnson, along with the 22 other residential tenants in her building, received an Ellis Act eviction notice from her landlord, known as 1049 Market St. LLC.

Mariella Morales has lived at 1561 9th Avenue, San Francisco for 35 years. Born in Lima, Peru, Mariella came to the San Francisco at the age of nineteen and realized her dream of walking over the Golden Gate Bridge and the streets which she had seen in the TV series “the Streets of San Francisco.” It is from her home at 9th Avenue where Mariella worked for decades as a caterer and house cleaner and raised three children as a single mom.