The Hotel Union, part of Tenderloin Housing Clinic, happens to be next door to another building featured in the Chronicle
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jhum
7:26 AM on August 28, 2011
And next door you can see your tax dollars at work subsidizing crack dealers working and living in the Hotel Union. Geary and Hyde is notorious… not for architecture. And why is crack only in the TL? It’s called graft and corruption. Be glad you don’t pay mega bucks to live in The Castle and deal with human feces at your front steps. Seriously this is my ‘hood and the Hotel Union needs to be shut down.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/27/BANL1KSSO6.DTL#ixzz1WNHgECHs
Here is the federal law that can potentially send Randy Shaw to prison. If that ever happens and Shaw is convicted, every SRO in the city will clean up it’s act. An example of a landlord ‘knowingly renting’ to a drug dealer would be one of the Patels admitting before the Rent Board that most of my tenants are drug dealers, or notification of such via certified, return receipt requested, registered US mail
21 U.S.C. ยง 856 : US Code – Section 856: Maintaining drug-involved premises
(a) Unlawful acts
Except as authorized by this subchapter, it shall be unlawful to –(1) knowingly open, lease, rent, use, or maintain any place,
whether permanently or temporarily, for the purpose of
manufacturing, distributing, or using any controlled substance;
(2) manage or control any place, whether permanently or
temporarily, either as an owner, lessee, agent, employee,
occupant, or mortgagee, and knowingly and intentionally rent,
lease, profit from, or make available for use, with or without
compensation, the place for the purpose of unlawfully
manufacturing, storing, distributing, or using a controlled
substance.
(b) Criminal penalties
Any person who violates subsection (a) of this section shall be
sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years or a
fine of not more than $500,000, or both, or a fine of $2,000,000
for a person other than an individual.
(c) Violation as offense against property
A violation of subsection (a) of this section shall be considered
an offense against property for purposes of section
3663A(c)(1)(A)(ii) of title 18.
(d) Civil penalites
(1) Any person who violates subsection (a) of this section shall
be subject to a civil penalty of not more than the greater of –
(A) $250,000; or
(B) 2 times the gross receipts, either known or estimated, that
were derived from each violation that is attributable to the
person.
(2) If a civil penalty is calculated under paragraph (1)(B), and
there is more than 1 defendant, the court may apportion the penalty
between multiple violators, but each violator shall be jointly and
severally liable for the civil penalty under this subsection.
(e) Declaratory and injunctive remedies
Any person who violates subsection (a) of this section shall be
subject to declaratory and injunctive remedies as set forth in
section 843(f) of this title.