Early Wednesday morning, the San Francisco home of Google lawyer Jack Halprin was crowded with a group of about 50 protesters.
For $1.4 million in 2012, Halprin bought the seven-unit apartment building in 812 Guerrero Street in Mission District.
In 2014 being the owner of the apartment building, Jack Halprin served the tenants an eviction notice under the Ellis Act, where the Act can allow the lawyer Halprin push existing tenants out, with Halprin's intention to convert the apartment building into a condo.
Mission Local, stated tenant Rebecca Bauknight received this week a one-page Notice to Vacate, the notice said that anytime after 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning Rebecca Bauknight could be evicted from her apartment.
For over 25 years, Rebecca Bauknight has reportedly a tenant in the apartment building. Bauknight happens to have a mental disability, that unable her from filing the lawsuit papers on time.
But the other tenants filed the lawsuit and recently won an appeal, and the appeal delayed their evictions from the building.
In front of Bauknight's apartment, her fellow tenants are planning to block the eviction, some of the tenants carried signs with slogans: "Evict Google," "We love Becky," and "This is a community, not a Monopoly board."
Some protesters shouted repeatedly "Hey Google, you can't hide" and "We're prepared to be arrested and we won't move."
The sheriff's Department spokesperson said, Bauknight's eviction is still indefinite, there's a possibility the eviction could be delayed. " The date on the notice, allows an eviction any time going forward."
Bauknight left the building at around 4:30 Wednesday morning, but a neighbor told Business Insider that she has not been evicted yet.
A number of officials and some advocates' idea about the 812 Guerrero house, illustrates such an abuse of the Ellis Act.
And some of the crowd shouted: "When tenant rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up and fight back."
