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Inside this issue: SF Rent Control Study; Hayward's Housing Woes; Costa-Hawkins Repeal Fails to Advance; Rent Control Initiative in Santa Cruz; Berkeley Mayor on Wiener-Skinner; Monthly Meeting for January.. Continue Reading
Inside this issue: SF "Right to Counsel"; Rent Control Defies Basic Economics; Trend? Rental Bidding Websites are Here; SF: Pass-through Charges Facing Resistance; Costa-Hawkins Repeal Update; Monthly Meeting for January... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Price-gouging Ban Controversy in Berkeley; Right to Counsel in SF Evictions; Can Spare Bedrooms Help Oakland?; Oakland Rent Control Loophole Closed; Santa Barbara Housing Compromise; Winter Dinner Announcement & Invitation; Bay Area Rents Still a Struggle for Many... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Bay Area Housing Pressures Continue; Renter Protection Plan Fizzles; Wildfires Raise Fears of "Mass Exodus"; 2018: Santa Crus Rent Control Campaign; Berkeley Tenant Buyouts: Update; Will the Bay Area Bubble Burst?; Members Meeting... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Haskel Street Development; High Incomes Drive Rents; Housing Crisis; Bedbugs; Massive Rent Hike Lawsuit; Mark Tarses; Members Meeting... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Source of Incone & Tenant Selection; Taxing Landlords with Vacant Units; Affordable Housing in El Cerrito; Fremont Isn't Ready for Rent Control; Ratio Billing Utility Systems; 83% of Bay Area Renters Plan to Leave; September Meeting Invitation; Washing Machines... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: McConnell on Alameda's Evictions Law; SF Eviction Law Defeated in Court; Consequences of Costa-Hawkins Repeal; Laws OK'd in SF, Rent Control in Richmond; Bay Area Rents Jump; Santa Monica Nixes "No to Section 8" Policies; Tenant Protections Unlikely in Oregon... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Cities to Try Rent Control; BRHC Backs Challenge to CI Offset; For the Fear of Shadows; Mitigation Fund for Housing the Homeless; Seattle Tests Law Preventing Discrimination; San Francisco Abusive Landlord; Office Notes.. Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Landlords Win Ruling on Eviction Fees; New Bedbug Law, Move Out 2017; Backlash Threatens Real Estate Projects; Bay Area Rents are Falling; Battle Over Rent Control; Workshop/Meeting Invitation... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Berkeley Back Room Deals; So Long Costa Hawkins; The Money is Already Spent; Unconstitutional Inspections; The Voice of the Activist Tenant; New Laws for ADUs... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Seeing Red on Rent Control; Owner Move-In; Richmond Rent Control; Rent Board Resignation; Santa Monica Section 8; Attack on Costa-Hawkins; Emotional Support Pet... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Governor to Increase Housing; Landlords Sue to Block Rent Control; Bedbug Legislation; Why We Deserve the Big Bucks; SFAA Sues City of San Francisco... Continue Reading
