San Francisco man fights eviction after rent increase from $1,800 to $8,000
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Re: San Francisco man fights eviction after rent increase from $1,800 to $8,000
#2Can San Francisco just hurry up and build some more high rises already?
Re: San Francisco man fights eviction after rent increase from $1,800 to $8,000
#3In no way am I defending the landlord, and I know nothing about the rents in that area of SF, but the news clip fails to state when the last increase was. It also doesn't mention how large the apartment is, or what a comparable rental in that area would be.
The renter says he's been living there a long time. If the rent hasn't increased in 20 years, there may be an expectation of an increase at some point. That doesn't mean it needs to be 400%, but if the renter has been 'saving' on rent while the rest of the market increases, this may have been inevitable.
At the same time, I'm surprised that there are no limits to rent increase amounts.
Re: San Francisco man fights eviction after rent increase from $1,800 to $8,000
#4Can San Francisco just hurry up and build some more high rises already?
A couple Burj Khalifa clones should do.
Or would that just not work there?
Re: San Francisco man fights eviction after rent increase from $1,800 to $8,000
#5Can San Francisco just hurry up and build some more high rises already?
It's in no ones best interest to do that, sadly.
Re: San Francisco man fights eviction after rent increase from $1,800 to $8,000
#6Can San Francisco just hurry up and build some more high rises already?
Or people could just stop moving to SF already. Supply and demand works two ways, and it's not like the SF housing shortage is a secret.
Re: San Francisco man fights eviction after rent increase from $1,800 to $8,000
#7In no way am I defending the landlord, and I know nothing about the rents in that area of SF, but the news clip fails to state when the last increase was. It also doesn't mention how large the apartment is, or what a comparable rental in that area would be. The renter says he's been living there a long time. If the rent hasn't increased in 20 years, there may be an expectation of an increase at some point. That doesn…
In California if you raise rent by more then 10% you have to give 60 days notice. This article didn't mention if the landlords notice was properly done.
Re: San Francisco man fights eviction after rent increase from $1,800 to $8,000
#8Reddit has good discussion of this story:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/4pt2hu/san_fr...
To summarize: it sucks for anyone to lose their home, but in this particular case the details are a bit confusing (what about rent control? doesn't eviction take a while? etc.).
Re: San Francisco man fights eviction after rent increase from $1,800 to $8,000
#9When I was at school participating in a legal clinic I had lots of clients facing eviction and we had plenty of tricks to use. Most popular was to demand a jury trial, which could take a month or two to organize, during which time the tenant wasn't paying rent and so could save enough to move.
The basic procedure:
Re: San Francisco man fights eviction after rent increase from $1,800 to $8,000
#10Can San Francisco just hurry up and build some more high rises already?
We don't need highrises. We could cut the cost of housing in half by increasing the supply by 30% (i.e., around 110,000 units), and we could do that by converting 6% of the city's single-family houses into six-story apartment buildings. The other 94% of the houses could stay the same, and no other plot of land would need to change. No buildings taller than six stories would be necessary.
Sources: http://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employmen... http://spothopping.com/sfhpn.html