Action/Alerts

We need you to testify at the Land Use Committee this coming Monday, July 27, 2015 to voice objection to the legislation introduced by Supervisor Jane Kim. The meeting starts at 1:30 p.m. and the location is the Legislative Chamber, Room 250, at City Hall.

The legislation would amend the Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance (File 150646). Here is how these changes would affect you:

1. If the owner evicts a tenant for certain causes (OMI, Ellis Act, capital improvement, previously approved condo conversion or permanent removal from housing use and the unit is EVER rented in the future, then in some cases the landlord could not charge the next tenant any more rent than was charged to the evicted tenant.
    
2. If the tenant is violating a lease provision that prohibits sub-leases, then the tenant must be given 10 days to cure – and asking for permission to sub-lease is sufficient to cure.
    
3. If the tenant is being evicted for nuisance or damaging the premises, the nuisance or damage must be on-going at the time the termination notice is served. In other words, if the tenant frequently plays loud music on random days between 2 and 4 in the morning, the process server needs to sit outside the door waiting for the music to start before serving the 3-day notice.
    
4. Tenants may not be evicted because their unit is not legally rented.  IF THE LANDLORD CANNOT COLLECT RENT THE TENANT GETS TO LIVE THERE FREE!

Please come to the Land Use Committee meeting and speak up. It is best not to get too specific. Merely state that your name and voice your concern that these further changes will cause additional difficulties in managing your rental units and are unnecessary.

Noni, Richen, President SPOSFI