The California Apartment Association has assailed a San Francisco unoccupied apartments tax as an unconstitutional infringement on the rights of property owners.
The association, which claims representation of more than 50,000 apartment owners and operators, is backing municipal property owners’ defense of a 2024 trial court ruling that struck down Proposition M, the city voter initiative that enacted the ordinance two years earlier. The tax is tantamount to a taking of their property in violation of the US Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, the local landlords contend.
The city is seeking the ruling’s reversal by the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate …