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As of 2019, about 182 U.S. municipalities had rent control: 99 in New Jersey, 63 in New York, 18 in California, one in Maryland, and Washington, D.C. [71] The five most populous cities with rent control are New York City; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Oakland; and Washington, D.C. [71] The sole Maryland municipality with rent control is Takoma ...
These exemptions, however, may leave most of a city's total rental stock under rent control. For example, in San Francisco, as of 2014, about 75% of all rental units were rent controlled, [52] and in Los Angeles in 2014, 80% of multifamily units were rent controlled. [53]: 1
[39]: 7 [40]: 1 [41]: 1 A 2019 study found that San Francisco's rent control laws reduced tenant displacement from rent controlled units in the short-term, but resulted in landlords removing 30% of the rent controlled units from the rental market (by conversion to condos or TICs) which led to a 15% citywide decrease in total rental units, and a ...
The San Francisco Rent Ordinance imposed rent control and eviction protection on residential units built before June 13, 1979. [27] A 2019 study has estimated that rent control has "reduced the supply of available rental housing by 15 percent" which "increased rents in the long run." [28]
In 1994, San Francisco voters passed a ballot initiative which expanded the city's existing rent control laws to include small multi-unit apartments with four or less units, built prior to 1980. (about 30% of the city's rental housing stock at the time).
Tenant groups in San Francisco and Los Angeles claim that California landlords commonly misuse the Ellis Act "to bypass rent control" [23] [24] and to cash in during peak housing market periods [25] by managing rent-stabilized properties to vacancy, when they might demolish buildings to build pricey condominiums, retenant newly-vacated units at ...
Daniel Lawrence Lurie was born and raised in a Jewish [4] family in San Francisco, the son of Mimi (née Ruchwarger) and Rabbi Brian Lurie. [5] [6] His parents divorced when he was two [6] and his mother remarried to Peter E. Haas [5] and his father remarried Caroline Fromm Lurie.
Two notable policy strategies to prevent eviction due to rising rents include rent control and subsidies such as Section 8 and Shelter Plus Care. [187] Moreover, in 2002, then San Francisco Supervisor Gavin Newsom introduced the "Care Not Cash" initiative, diverting funds away from cash handouts (which he argued encouraged drug use) to housing.