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Mission Resident Locked Out of Apartment in Illegal Eviction

Causa Justa called on Mission neighbors to rally at 24th between Mission and Valencia and protest the evicition of Jesús Sanchez, “a Latino immigrant and Mission resident came home Wednesday night to find that the locks to the unit had been changed and all his belongings had been removed.” Which is so ridiculously illegal, where to even begin? Sadly, illegal doesn’t mean “uncommon,” especially not in The Quad. The activist organization reports that 40 percent of eviction cases referred to them come from the Mission as the latest numbers from the Rent Board show more (legal) evictions are at the highest level since the last dot-boom. Sanchez is pictured here center-right, holding a sign demanding his rights as a tenant under the Rent Ordinance. Don’t worry, Mayor Ed Lee, nobody has disrupted the corporate shuttles making stops across the street.

Update: According to Causa Justa, Sanchez will return home tonight.