Tim Redmond of 48 hills explains the flaws in the politically biased report by the city’s economist that inaccurately claims the negative effects of a temporary moratorium on building luxury housing in the Mission District of San Francisco. Read about the problems in the report here.
The East Bay Express explains in their September 16, 2015 cover article “Turning Housing into Hotels” the problems with Airbnb and other vacation rentals.
The number of vacation rentals in San Francisco that reduce affordable housing stock might surprise you.
Airbnb guest was sexually assaulted after Airbnb refused to assist the guest. Since Ron Conway, a major investor in Airbnb, contributes a lot of money to local political candidates, you can support candidates not funded by Airbnb (such as Aaron Peskin) and measures to stop the abuses by Airbnb.
Gabriel Metcalf, Director of San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), claims progressives caused the housing crisis. Tim Redmond explains why this isn’t true in his article on www.48hills.org.
An amendment to the relocation payment providing a rental payment differential is not currently being enforced by the City of San Francisco because the City believes the new rental payment differential is included in the ruling of Levin v. City and County of San Francisco.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015, 2 pm at the San Francisco City Hall Board of Supervisors Chambers, the Board of Supervisors will be voting on the two competing ordinances about how the city regulates Airbnb and other short term rentals. We need to be there to support Supervisor Campos’ version, which will actually hold hold companies…
Mayor Lee and Supervisor Wiener are proposing the city build more affordable housing. Lee’s plan is contingent on approval by legislators or the voters (shifting the burden from Lee to others). Also, building enough affordable housing would require the same amount of construction as from 1920 to the present. Rent control requires no new construction.…
Let your Supervisor know that you support stopping low-fault evictions.Tell Supervisor Jane Kim about low-fault eviction cases, preferably with names and contact information for the tenants. She is looking for data to back up the need for her new legislation stopping these low-fault evictions. Tenants are getting evicted for causes that are minor lease violations…
An article by psmag.com rebuts criticism of rent control including giving the results of studies such as a 2012 study that seems to show that the removal of rent regulations did nothing to lower housing prices and ended Cambridge’s tenure as a mixed-income neighborhood.