SF News Renters Rally In Sacramento In Support of Statewide Rent Control Bill People were projecting “Lower the rent! It’s too damn high” onto the State Capitol building Sunday night, and renters are rallying there again today, in support of a statewide rent control bill that would cut maximum rent increases from 10% to just 5%.
SF News Saturday Links: 1,200 Anti-Trump Protests Nationwide, SF’s Civic Center Saturday A huge protest will be at Civic Center today alongside 1,200 others nationwide; Concord landlords paid fake activists to wear "Repeal Rent Control" shirts to a city council meeting; and the 2025 Sunday Streets schedule has been announced.
SF Politics California Voters Say Yes to Tougher Crime Sentences, No to Rent Control Most statewide California ballot measure results still cannot be projected, but the two big ones can, as tougher sentencing for crimes was approved, while an expansion of rent control was rejected.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rent Control Remains Divisive Issue In SF Expanding rent control remains a divisive issue in SF; those new anti-sex-work barriers have gone up on Shotwell Street; and a Castro dessert shop was closed by the health department.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Aaron Peskin Scales Back SF Rent Control Expansion That Would Move Forward If Prop 33 Passes An ambitious proposal to expand San Francisco's rent control ordinance to units built through 2024 has been scaled back, but Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin says that voters should know what the board's plans are in the event that Prop 33 passes next month.
SF Politics Your November Ballot’s Prop 33 Rent Control Measure Could Repeal Costa-Hawkins Statewide California rent control advocates could score one of their biggest wins ever this November 5 if they pass Prop 33, which would legalize rent control across the state, and effectively repeal the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Act.
SF News Concord Is On Track to Get Rent Control, More Bay Area Cities May Follow Rent control is going beyond Oakland and San Francisco, as Concord is on the verge of implementing it, and a handful of other Bay Area cities also have rent control ballot measures in the works.
SF Politics Peskin Seeks to Expand Rent Control to New Construction In SF Via Charter Amendment The SF Board of Supervisors will be seeing two proposed amendments to the city charter introduced at their Tuesday meeting, both of which set up fights between the progressive bloc of supervisors and Mayor London Breed over housing.
SF News Sup. Preston Seeks To Close Rent-Control Loophole That’s Leading to 182% Rent Increases An affordable housing nonprofit ironically called HumanGood has announced 182% rent increases for some tenants thanks to a HUD loophole, but Supervisor Dean Preston has introduced an ordinance to prevent this.
SF News Veritas Investments Announces New Program to Forgive Uncovered Portions of Back-Rent Owed by Residential Tenants Veritas Investments — SF's largest landlord, which owns and manages some 250 residential properties in the city — announced this week it will not require tenants to pay their overdue rent caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
SF Politics California Ballot Measures: Rent Control Effort Fails, Property Tax Too Close to Call Results are still coming in, but the attempted revision of Prop 13 for commercial property is running slightly behind, and the reinstatement of affirmative action has likely failed.
SF News Daly City Landlords Line Up To Evict Tenants Ahead of New State Law Daly City is facing an apparent eviction crisis as landlords are hurrying to oust tenants ahead of a state law taking effect in January that bars no-fault evictions.
SF News State Bill To Repeal Limitations On Rent Control Has Some Local Landlords Fuming San Francisco landlords were getting heated Friday in protest of a State Assembly bill that would repeal limits on rent control that have been in effect since 1995. AB 1506, at least in
SF News Infamous Bernal Heights Landlord Who Quadrupled Tenant's Rent Now Must Pay Her $400,000 In March of 2015, Debra Follingstad's Facebook post went viral, a story that served as a "sign of the times" anecdote about the state of San Francisco eviction scares and housing horrors. In
SF News To Get Tenants To Leave Rent-Controlled Apartments, East Palo Alto Landlord Allegedly Shot Their Cars With A BB Gun John Small didn't think too much of it when his car was damaged last year in East Palo Alto in the parking garage of Stanford Garden Apartments, the complex where he's lived for
SF News Deal Announced To Build First New Rent-Controlled Units In Decades For the first time in over 20 years, San Francisco may get new rent-controlled housing. And not new in the sense that the units in question are being built to replace the destruction
SF News North Beach Tenant Facing Eviction After Rent Increase From $1,800 To $8,000 With rent increases and evictions all too commonplace in the Bay Area, it's now the most extreme examples — last year's massive rent hike on a Bernal Heights apartment, to name just one — that
SF News Extremely SF Startup Negotiates Buyouts On Rent-Controlled Units Landlords have been required to publicly disclose buyout agreements made with their tenants since 2014, finally giving us some numbers and transparency into what has previously been a shrouded subject last year. That
SF News Two Sunset Families May Lose Their Apartments Due To Shady Landlord Tactic Two separate groups of Sunset renters are at risk of losing their apartments after what appear to be some shady moves by the building's new owner. One of the renters has filed an
SF News Supervisor Peskin Moves To Expand Rent Control To Newer Buildings Supervisor Aaron Peskin is gearing up to draft legislation that would expand rent control to properties built after the current 1979 cutoff. Working with the City Attorney's office, Peskin is exploring a trade-off
SF News [Update] Lawyer Behind Egregious Bernal Heights Rent Increase Gives Snide Statement Denouncing Rent Control The story that broke earlier this week about the longtime tenant in a Bernal Heights rent-controlled unit has continued to churn, despite the fact that the tenant herself seems to have no legal
SF News [Update] Landlord Uses Loophole In Rent Control Law To Raise Woman's Rent To $8900 Via a Facebook post over the weekend that's been going locally viral, several tipsters have been alerting SFist to a story that is likely to frighten anyone who's been enjoying the protection of
SF News More Laws Protecting Renters, a Good Thing? There have been four new laws proposed this year that would make it harder for landlords to raise rents and evict tenants. Three of the laws would increase the rights of rent-controlled tenants
SF News Rent Control/Prop 98: the Video Care of Current TV, here's a nifty video about Proposition 98, which, if passed, would eliminate rent control. Zoinks. It also features someone with a very thick East Coast accent. Double zoinks. Anyway,
