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As of 2022, San Francisco had the slowest permitting process of any large city in the United States, with the first stage taking an average of 450 calendar days, and the second stage can take 630 days for typical multi-family housing, or 860 days for a single-family house. [17] In July of 2024, San Francisco became the first city in California ...
San Francisco, for example, allows annual rent increases of 60% of the CPI, up to a maximum 7%. [65] Rent control laws are often administered by nonelected rent control boards. Officers in city government assign members of the board, which will ensure mixed numbers of tenants and property owners to balance out their benefits.
Also in 1995, at the request of and with funding from the San Francisco Human Services Agency, [13] the agency began Connecting Point (CP), which serves as the central intake and assessment center for any family in San Francisco needing to access the city's shelter system. In 2007, CP was awarded a contract in partnership with the Eviction ...
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An example of such city intent is San Francisco's Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance (SFRO), enacted in 1979 as an emergency ordinance amending the San Francisco Administrative Code. It found that, in the face of tight markets and significant rental increases prior to rent control, "some tenants attempt to pay requested ...
Lyft sued San Francisco, saying it was unfairly charged $100 million in taxes from 2019 to 2023. Lyft argues the city's tax formula unfairly includes passenger payments as revenue.
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).
A former employee at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, who was fired after replying to an office-wide email with a salacious comment, is now suing the department, his former boss ...