S.F. Housing Authority Sued over Failure to Protect Muslim Tenants

December 10, 2007

Author: Marisa Lagos

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Housing-Authority-sued-over-failure-to-3299877.php

A family of Pakistani immigrants living in San Francisco public housing was improperly denied an emergency transfer to another apartment after someone broke into their home, desecrated their Quran, defaced their passports and shredded their traditional clothing, according to a federal court lawsuit.

After the August 2005 incident - which took place during a time of intensified anti-Muslim sentiment in the country and while the San Francisco Housing Authority was under court order to better protect tenants from hate-motivated crimes - agency officials ruled that the break-in at Ashan Khan's apartment was a simple burglary and didn't qualify the family for an emergency apartment transfer, the family says.