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3 new S.F. rent laws in the works
Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
A San Francisco supervisor is proposing laws intended to keep renters from being priced out of their homes during tough economic times.
Three laws proposed by Supervisor Chris Daly on Tuesday would bar landlords from increasing rent to more than one-third of a tenant's income, would expand the rights of tenants who want to add roommates, and would limit 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.
The laws would apply only to rent increases and would not help people who cannot afford their current rent.
The proposals immediately drew praise from tenants groups, who said rents have stayed high in San Francisco even as they have dropped elsewhere. It was slammed by landlords, who argued that property owners already are struggling with a soft rental market and high vacancy rates.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...8EM8.DTL&tsp=1
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Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
A San Francisco supervisor is proposing laws intended to keep renters from being priced out of their homes during tough economic times.
Three laws proposed by Supervisor Chris Daly on Tuesday would bar landlords from increasing rent to more than one-third of a tenant's income, would expand the rights of tenants who want to add roommates, and would limit 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.
The laws would apply only to rent increases and would not help people who cannot afford their current rent.
The proposals immediately drew praise from tenants groups, who said rents have stayed high in San Francisco even as they have dropped elsewhere. It was slammed by landlords, who argued that property owners already are struggling with a soft rental market and high vacancy rates.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...8EM8.DTL&tsp=1
Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis :cool: