Ellis Act

Appeals court finds that San Francisco violated Ellis Act by imposing long waits on exiting landlords to renovate “nonconforming units”

June 5, 2018 by Daniel S. Gonzales Leave a Comment

Over the last several years, I have written a number of blog articles about rent control in the Bay Area. From time to time, these articles have focused specifically on San Francisco and its notorious approach to this question. Without a doubt, it is an unfortunate fact of life that being a residential landlord under San Francisco’s existing regime can be an Augean task. One … [Read more...] about Appeals court finds that San Francisco violated Ellis Act by imposing long waits on exiting landlords to renovate “nonconforming units”

More bad news for San Francisco’s tenant relocation payment law

April 12, 2017 by Daniel S. Gonzales 2 Comments

Over the past several years, the already high cost of housing in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area has risen precipitously, which has made the subject of rent control an unavoidable topic of discussion here, including in my blog. Nowhere in the region is this issue more contentious than in San Francisco, where landlords, tenants, lawmakers and the courts have been grappling with … [Read more...] about More bad news for San Francisco’s tenant relocation payment law

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