Wednesday, March 04, 2009

3 new S.F. rent laws in the works




The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
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.
Majority rule theft.