Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benito Flores said he will stay in his tree house while facing eviction at his "reclaimed" house on Shelley Street in El Sereno on ...

Barbara Butler has spent nearly four decades building tree houses all across the country. But when the Hayward-based timber expert spoke to SFGATE on Tuesday, she started the call with bewilderment.

One hundred feet down a suspended footbridge and 20 feet into the branches of a massive silver maple tree, you pass through a rustic wooden entryway to a one-story structure and end up feeling a world ...

Benito Flores, a 70-year-old man who illegally seized a state-owned home more than five years ago in El Sereno, is protesting his eviction and holing up in a tree house he built in the backyard.