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A 98-year-old San Francisco woman said this week that she is being evicted from her apartment after 50 years, and she's never once been late paying her rent.
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reported that Urban Green Investments is using the 1986 Ellis Act to kick Mary Phillips out of her apartment so the company can cash in on the surging real estate market in San Francisco. The Ellis Act allows landlords to evict tenants if they are getting out of the rental business.
"I've been very happy here," Phillips explained. "I've always paid my rent, I've never been late."
Phillips, who is one of many the low-income families and seniors being evicted, has vowed to fight the eviction because she has nowhere else to go.
"I didn't sit down and cry, I just refused to believe it," she said. "They're going to have to take me out of here feet first."
"Just because of your age, don't let people push you around," she said.
According to the San Francisco Tenants Union, tenants fighting evictions done through the Ellis Act often win their cases.
The group Vanishingsf, which fights the "hyper-gentrification on San Francisco communities," has encouraged people to protest Phillips' eviction.
"Who evicts a 98 year old woman?" a
post on the Vanishingsf Facebook page asked. "Feel free to let Urban Green CEO David McCloskey, who's evicting her, know what you think, ask him how he sleeps at night and if he'd put his grandmother on the streets. David@urbangreeninv.com (415) 651-4441 http://www.urbangreeninv.com."
Comment: The responsibility for the carnage and humanitarian crisis in Kiev lies at the US empire of global chaos, who pull the strings of their puppet Poroshenko and have been more than encouraging the junta in Kiev to attack its own population.
The US even deny that there is a refugee crisis and says that Ukrainians are simply visiting their grannies in Russia.
'Ukrainians not fleeing to Russia but just visiting their grannies' - US State Department spokesperson