When the deputy sheriff showed up at his door with an eviction notice, Sen Savanh thought it had to be a misunderstanding.
The 63-year-old disabled Tenderloin resident had been paying his rent just as he always had for more than 25 years: on the first of the month he dropped the check for $725.48 in the mailbox at the nearby Mosser Tower Apartments at 350 Turk St. The months the eviction lawsuit said he hadn’t paid — May, June, and July of 2025 — his checks had been cashed, he said.
Savanh explained the situation to the deputy sheriff, who gave him the phone number of the Eviction Defense Collaborative, a nonprofit that provides legal assistance to low-income tenants facing evictions…