Action/Alerts

SPOSFI Members Call to Action:

Supervisor Jane Kim has proposed changes in the laws governing our small businesses, and we must tell her and the other two members of the Land Use Committee, Supervisors Malia Cohen and Scott Wiener, that these changes will make it even more difficult for us to offer our rental properties to the general public. Please attend the hearing and use your allotted two minutes to voice your concerns. These proposals will hurt owners and renters alike. They are extreme and will decrease available rentals, raising rents for available properties even higher.

Please use your time to tell your personal story; do not try to offer amendments. This legislation would be the first step leading to registration of all rents with the rent board and eventually establishing vacancy control. It is bad throughout and needs to be defeated, not amended.

Here are brief talking points:

1. The Kim legislation will make it almost impossible to enforce a breach of lease for any reason.
2. The law improperly extends the period to cure a breach from 3 days to 10 days. Will be very difficult to evict nuisance tenants.
3. This measure will discourage people from offering their units for rent by imposing vacancy control rents on certain specified units.
4. The Kim legislation will change the burdens of proof in eviction trials to further favor tenants.

The full text of the measure is at this site.

https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=3889879&GUID=5DAF9FBE-05AE-4A84-92BD-F8EE944B7D41

See you on Monday.

Noni Richen
President