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 After SF Supes Banned It Locally, Rent Price Software RealPage Gets Sued by US Justice Department Less than a month after the SF Board of Supervisors banned a rental price algorithm tool from being used here, the company called RealPage that makes that tool was just sued by the US Department of Justice for illegal price-fixing.
SF News SF Supervisors Ban AI Software Used to Set Rental Prices, Arguing the Technology is Price-Fixing and Collusion San Francisco is the first city in the nation to ban AI software used to set rent prices, as the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved banning algorithms used to maximize what landlords charge for rent.
Business & Tech X’s SF Landlord Is Suing Over Unpaid Rent, Seeking $13.6 Million Ahead of X's trial with its Market Street office landlord over rent nonpayment, court filings reveal that the landlord is looking for $13.6 million to refill a line of credit.
SF News Meanwhile, In Barcelona... Proving that San Francisco isn't the only city facing renters' woes, Erik Keeling (my brother, who has been living in Spain for the last 20 years) sends in this pic from the Barceloneta
SF News Map Suggests That SF Rents Aren't As Crazy As You Think We've all read the reports: San Francisco's rents are rising impossibly quickly, people can't afford to live in San Francisco anymore, and if you lose your apartment, you may never find another one.
Arts & Entertainment Shake Your Fist At This 2BR Rental On Valencia Going For $10,500 [Updated] UPDATE: As some commenters have pointed out, this ad could be a hoax. How very political theater! Alas, no, via Uptown Almanac, it's not. Allow the exceptional TK of 40 Going On 20
