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.
SF News Oakland's Uptown Apartments 60% Vacant; Get One Cheap, If You Dare One of the biggest gambles (or corrupt city investments, depending on how you see it) in Oakland Redevelopment history, the 665-unit mixed-use development known as the Uptown Project, remains only 37% occupied more
SF News New Rent Relief Laws in the Works Supervisor Chis Daly has yet another meme in the works: new rent laws. Three of them, in fact. The first one would bar landlords from increasing rent to more than one-third of a
