As we've posted and many other media sources have noted, evictions are up tenfold in the City for 2013. One Castro resident, Jeremy Mykaels, who lives at 460 Noe, has been fighting tooth and nail to stay in his home. On Oct. 23rd the judge in his case, Ronald Quidachay, held that the Notice of Termination of Tenancy was defective for failing to state the correct amount of rent and halted the process. The landlord, 460Noe Group LLC, can appeal the ruling or re-file an eviction notice, but for now, Mykaels and his attorney, Steve Collier, are ecstatic to have the Ellis Eviction quashed. Activists have been rallying throughout the City and on Mr. Mykaels behalf since last Spring. Mr. Mykaels has been at the forefront of the new tenant rights movement that has sprung up as rents have risen and real estate speculators hungry to make a quick buck have been buying up property in SF at a record pace displacing long time tenants. The attempted eviction of Jeremy Mykaels, a gay man living in the Castro with AIDS, has aroused tremendous outrage. Mykaels has lived in the Castro for forty years and in his current unit for seventeen. The ability of the state Ellis Act to preempt his local eviction protections strikes many as immoral, and has led to renewed calls for changes to the Ellis Act at the state level. During the Summer Mr. Mykaels also had the help of a local group, Eviction Free San Francisco, who've rallied in front of his house, raised community awareness on his behalf, and worked with different tenant rights groups within the City to help Mr. Mykaels and other at risk citizens fight back against eviction notices. Mykael’s landlord seeks to merge the rental units in Mykael’s building into a single family home. This will require new zoning from the planning commission who have been reluctant as of late to eliminate any rental units from the already highly competitive and tight SF market. This isn't a done deal, but for now, Mr. Mykeals can sleep soundly knowing he won't be displaced from the apartment he's called home for nearly two decades anytime soon. Via Beyond Chron