99-year-old SF widow wins eviction reprieve, for now
A 99-year-old added who had the acceptable luck to accomplish it to 99 got a little added acceptable luck on Tuesday in San Francisco if the acknowledged arrangement put her hard-to-believe boot on hold.“I feel happy,” said Iris Canada, captivation assimilate the handles of her ambler as she stood at the foreground aperture of the courthouse on McAllister Street.
Canada has lived in her collapsed at 670 Page St. aback the 1940s. Eleven years ago, afterwards the apartments in the six-unit architecture were awash off individually, Canada was promised she could accumulate active in her collapsed for the blow of her life, for $700 a mont
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| 99-year-old SF widow wins eviction reprieve, for now |
“I adulation active in San Francisco,” Canada said. “San Francisco is my home, and my home is my home. I don’t wish to go anyplace.”
On Tuesday, several attorneys in apparel met central a attorneys to altercate afore a Superior Cloister adjudicator why Canada should or should not accept to leave.
Lawyers for the unit’s owners — Peter Owens, Stephen Owens and Carolyn Radisch — argue Canada, a retired nurse, has not lived continuously in the flat. The owners filed a complaint with the cloister advertence that Canada had “permitted decay to action on the premises” and that she had “failed to assuredly abide at the premises.”
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| 99-year-old SF widow wins eviction reprieve, for now |
Lawyers for the buyer said Canada had not kept the abode up.
“Yes, I have,” Canada said later.
Action postponed
Judge A. James Robertson adjourned the boot and ordered attorneys for both abandon aback next anniversary to see if the boot should be aerial permanently.
Meanwhile, Canada begin herself something of a abrupt celebrity in the apple of tenants’ rights law. Standing beside her at the courthouse aperture were a bisected dozen tenants advocates, protesters with blockade signs and San Francisco Supervisor London Breed, who alleged on the architecture owners to “show some compassion.”
Supervisor’s objection
“This is something that shouldn’t be happening,” Breed said. “Something is wrong. We accept too abounding seniors active on our streets. We are allurement the buyer to let her stay, let her be.”
Canada’s friend, advisor Gus Brown from the Housing Rights Committee, said that the added had paid $79,000 over the years to the owners beneath the agreement of her deal, and that it was not her accountability she was still alive.
“They anticipation in 2005 that, in two or three years, she’d be dead,” Brown said. “That’s what this is absolutely about.”
Tommi Mecca, counseling administrator of the committee, apprenticed the unit’s owners to bead their lawsuit.
“Why all of a abrupt do they wish her evicted? They can’t wait? The woman’s 99,” Mecca said. “I just can’t appreciate how they absolve this.”
Proving her point
After the cloister hearing, Canada went aback to her collapsed and arrive anyone who believed that she hadn’t kept the abode up to appear central and accept a attending around.
She put her ambler aside, climbed the 13 accomplish to her accommodation after abetment and plopped down on a red daybed to “see what’s on TV,” which is how she passes the day if she is not alleged afore the bar of justice. She said she brand watching account and movies because they’re both “full of acceptable stories.”
Her active allowance was an admixture of blimp animals, pictures of relatives, 5 TV limited controls, two artificial bananas in a bowl, a Chinese lantern, a aperture machine, a accumulating of 45 rpm records, a affected account of da Vinci’s “Last Supper” and a cuckoo clock. All of it looked to be able-bodied cared for.
Canada said she is searching advanced to abiding to cloister to see what the attorneys accept in abundance this time, bold next anniversary rolls around, never a abiding thing.
“We’ll see what happens,” Canada said.
Steve Rubenstein is a San Francisco Chronicle agents writer. Email: srubenstein@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @SteveRubeSF
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