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May 6, 2016
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San Francisco Chronicle
SF suing Academy of Art over real estate empire
Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross
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"After years of finger-pointing, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera says “enough is enough” and is filing suit against the Academy of Art University, saying the nation’s largest for-profit art school and one of the city’s biggest landlords has illegally converted 22 buildings in amassing a real estate empire.
Citing “deliberate noncompliance ... repeated missed deadlines and recurrent unfulfilled promises,” Herrera said it is time for the university to fall into line with city planning laws.
“In particular, defendants must return the many housing units they unlawfully displaced to San Francisco’s affordable housing stock,” the city attorney said in the suit he plans to file Friday in San Francisco Superior Court."