In reply to Cynthia Gómez.

” do not handle habitability cases in San Francisco because the city (law) doesn’t guarantee attorney fee compensation.”

If the intent is not to punish, but to maximize sheltering, perhaps housing law ought to “guarantee landlord profit … and the swift resolution of conflict” to maximize the housing of families, seniors and the disabled, instead of blaming “bad business decisions” and overlooking all manner of bad behavior from occupants

Ease and improve the process of getting permits to do work first. It shouldn’t be so difficult to do even the most basic renovations in SF.

Yes there is a good chance that buildings such as PARKWEST which has been overrun by rodents since March 2023 will be flagged since there is no regular maintenance staff around to stop infestation until DEPT OF BUILDING INSPECTION holds a directors hearing and tenants come forward with horrific stories including children ‘s cribs with droppins, disabled M.D.’s coming down with a virus and overall ill will towards rent controlled tenants .

In reply to Daniel.

In other words, if landlords are held accountable for violations of housing law, they’ll instead start violating housing law?

In reply to Irish Scarlett.

I don’t believe this legislation is targeting non-corp landlords. Many families with children and the disabled are living in substandard housing by corporate landlords due to below market rates. In my unit, I have been living with cockroaches for 4 months while my landlord refuses to hire a pest control vendor who offers alternatives to toxic pesticides. I live on Social Security and can’t afford anything other than subsidized housing. San Francisco is a pro-landlord city where the courts already favor landlords over tenants. Despite being a rent control city, those protections haven’t been enforced for 30 years. It’s time we got back to the idea of “fair housing”.

Tenants don’t give breaks to tenants more cause the laws keep demonizing landlords, giving tenants more rights over the apt than the owner *ex: master tenant can evict roommates with 30 days, owner: no such right!. and tenants get free legal help which the owner doesn’t get. No wonder 10s of 1000s of apts sit empty. And no wonder apts become tics and rental houses never sold except for owner occupants

Tenants do not always inform the property manager (PM) that something is broken. Receiving a formal Notice of Violation (NOV) from a housing inspector, validating that the complaint is real, allows the PM to fix the problem in a timely manner. Melgar is wrong to circumvent the NOV process and allow tenant attorneys to sue immediately, even if the PM has not been notified of a potential problem.

This is America. Tenants do not own the property so they have the freedom to move. Why is some silly Supervisor in San Francisco trying to get involved in this? To help a bunch of slimy tenant lawyers?

Can you imagine being insane enough to rent out your property in San Francisco? And when prices spike as supply of rentals drops, the progressives will scratch their heads with wonder, before proposing even more stringent rent control. The stupidity of the left never ceases to amaze.

This is purely punitive. Tenants already are incentivized to sue, whether the owner is a bad actor or not. The supervisors never lose an opportunity to villainize anyone who owns property. Tenants get taxpayer funded attorneys, support from the rent board, and behind the scenes cheerleading from Comrades Preston, Ronen, and Melgar, to name a few.

The supervisors can blame themselves when small owners have had enough and get out of the business. The city eventually will have the corporate landlords that it has earned by its unending contempt for the majority of law-abiding owners who keep up their properties with rent increases limited to 60% of the CPI.

In reply to h. brown.

If you are referring to the camper vans on Lake Merit Blvd… “Evicted”? It’s a roadway, but that aside – they just moved over a few yards. You can find them lined up on Vidal Drive in case you’re looking to make friends. Go drop off some cookies for the holidays. /s

Campers,

I think Supervisor Melgar is a good person but it really surprised and hurt me to hear that she is evicting a hundred or so Motorhome dwellers in her district who have been there for years.

I wonder if they voted ?

Comrade Lenin says that he does not want to kill off landlords, only nickle and dime them to death. Things and events change, Comrade Harry Britt said that it was time for landlords to go.

WTF
elderly and minor but not LGTBQ+/-
Starting to feel like 1950’s Alabama
Racist

“The provision for extra damages for children was fueled by research demonstrating poor housing conditions lead to negative health outcomes, Melgar said.”
Another negative outcome: This would lead to landlord hesitancy to rent to families, the elderly and disabled persons who would also be slated for 3x damages.