The city has filed a lawsuit against a San Francisco property owner who allegedly allowed tenants to continue to live in a Tenderloin apartment building after a fire had ravaged the structure, leaving it without power or other utilities.
On Thursday, City Attorney David Chiu filed a lawsuit against Golden Tiger LLC and Adam La, the owner of 155 Hyde St., a six-story, 52-unit residential building that was damaged in a fire in June of 2025.
The lawsuit seeks to force the landlord to fix safety issues that persist at the property and to recoup costs the city incurred by providing emergency services after the fire. City departments stepped in to provide temporary power with a generator and relocated families after the property was deemed uninhabitable following a June 2025 fire…