Posted on 06/24/2009 7:56:26 AM PDT by SmithL
While some San Francisco renters breathe a sigh of relief, landlords are outraged at a series of new regulations coming from the tenant-friendly Board of Supervisors.
On Tuesday, the board voted to pass a package of renters' rights laws authored by Supervisor Chris Daly, and another supervisor introduced a measure that would make it illegal for owners who want to move into their property to evict families with children.
The new legislation, authored by Supervisor Eric Mar, is aimed at keeping families with children stable and in affordable housing. It will expand existing laws, which already protect seniors, disabled people and the terminally ill from owner move-in evictions in multiunit buildings. Single-family homes and condos are exempt from the existing and proposed laws.
"During these challenging economic times, the city needs to do whatever it can to ensure families can live and work here," said Mar. "Too often children are being forced to leave the city where they were born."
Landlords - who said they are also being hit hard by the recession - are not pleased, calling the laws unnecessary.
"This is ridiculous," said Janan New, president of the San Francisco Apartment Association, of the Mar legislation. "In this economy there are no owner move-in evictions going on."
New also opposed laws proposed by Daly, which the mayor is expected to veto and the board is unlikely to be able to override. Daly's package included expanding the rights of tenants who want to add roommates, and limiting the amount of so-called banked rent increases in which annual increases allowed under city laws are saved up and then imposed all at once.
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Don't be silly!
Next, they will be shocked that rent prices are rising.
I’m sorry...why would any landlord buy property in San Francisco or Berkeley? You just know the boards are gonna screw you over...Why do it?
How’s this going to sit with “Mr. Feinstein”?
The dear Senator’s husband is a bigwig with CBRE - one of the largest property owners in CA - they deal mostly in commercial pieces, but this should still be interesting...
They are working hard to make sure that no rentals are available in SF. Landlord’s will sell out their property as condo’s or single family.
And the unintended consequence is people won't rent to families with children.
Ahh, but then they'll get sued for discrimination.
Hmmmm, seems like this will cause landlords to not rent to those with children. Guess the doogooders didn’t think of that.
It’s not considered “discrimination” based on number of bedrooms. Every place will become a “one bedroom” with study...
What can you say - amazing...
Welcome to New York! If the Hipster Trustafarians want to pay $2,500 a month for the 400 sq ft tenement flat that your janitor father and/or MTA file clerk mother struggled to get out of when it was a slum, so be it.
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