By Tim Redmond, 48 Hills/El Tecolote
Adan Lobo, a native of Honduras, was living in a small, run-down place on Hampshire Street, sharing a room and showering under a tarp to keep the dirty water leaking from the ceiling above from dripping on his head. It was, he says, “kind of nasty.”
But now he misses the place, because since his eviction, he has been forced into residential hotels that he says were infested with fleas and bedbugs, and now he is living in a van with three other men. Some of his former housemates are sleeping in their cars or on the street.
Eviction stories are increasingly common in San Francisco, but the one concerning Lobo has a stunning twist: He and the other residents of 938-940 Hampshire St. were forced out when the landlord allowed the building to decay so badly that the Department of Building Inspection ruled that it was uninhabitable.
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