Three hospitalizationsGiles, 63, said she has been a San Francisco resident since childhood.She said she has been a stand-up comic and for a time was a "minister who would travel around the world to marry people at their destination weddings."She said she had lived in a rent-controlled unit in the Pacific Heights neighborhood for several decades but moved to get away from what she described as an abusive roommate situation.Giles said she began living at 95 Laguna Street in August 2019.
In a letter she said she sent to Mercy dated October 25, 2019, she stated that she did not see the apartment before she signed the lease."I was told it was the 'very last one,'" Giles wrote.