Tuesday, Supervisor Jackie Fielder introduced a new proposal offering more protections for renters in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Currently the city’s rent ordinance allows evictions for any amount of unpaid rent. However, Fielder’s ordinance would only allow an eviction if a tenant owes more than a month’s rent.<\/p>\n
That amount would be defined using the federal government’s “fair market rent.”<\/p>\n
So, how much is rent nowadays?<\/p>\n
$2,400 for a studio.<\/p>\n
$2,900 for a one-bedroom.<\/p>\n
$3,600 for a two-bedroom.<\/p>\n
The ordinance is being co-sponsored by five other supervisors and is backed by the mayor, who says the city continues to see increases in rent and the number of evictions.<\/p>\n
“We’re seeing rental evictions being up close to 10% over the past year, and I am really encouraged and very supportive of … the legislation being proposed today by Supervisor Fielder and her five co-sponsors,” San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said.<\/p>\n
Oakland and Berkeley have also implemented similar laws setting the threshold for eviction at one month of unpaid rent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, Supervisor Jackie Fielder introduced a new proposal offering more protections for renters in San Francisco. Currently the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1011,14500,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-450695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-housing","tag-making-it-in-the-bay","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}