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SF: Summary of Prop R-the Rent Control Repeal Measure

by Tenant Voter
The Save Rent Control website has an excellent summary of Prop R which is reprinted below. Please note that large buildings, as well as the small ones, can be converted to condos by Prop R, causing the tenants to be homeless!
The Save Rent Control website has an excellent summary of Prop R which is reprinted below. Please note that large buildings, as well as the small ones, can be converted to condos by Prop R, causing the tenants to be homeless!

The first step to defeating Prop R is to register to vote. By the time we walk the precincts starting in September to defeat Prop R, every reader of this website should be registered to vote, and we cannot take any excuses as our homes must be saved. If you are eligible to register and have not done so, please contact the registrar at :http://www.sfgov.org/election/contact.htm

From: http://www.saverentcontrol.com/summary.html
Prop R—the condo conversion measure won't provide ownership
•A similar law in Santa Monica saw over 80% of the tenants in converted buildings displaced. Less than 11% could buy. San Francisco had a similar program in the1980s. Here, too, 89% were unable to buy. Conservative Mayor Dianne Feinstein ended that program because of so many evictions.

Prop R is a risky and dangerous measure which will cause evictions and rent increases:

•Increase condo conversions from 400 to 3,400 a year

•Enable apartment buildings of ANY size to be converted (Not just 2-6 unit buildings)

•Repeal rent control from 3,400 apartments a year
(State law lets landlords repeal rent control from rented condominiums)

•Cause evictions and rent increases–there are supposed tenant "protections" but they are uneforceable under state law. (State law won't allow rent limits on condominiums or restrictions on Ellis evictions)

•Allow just 25% of people in a building to decide if apartments can be converted to condominiums––an unfair and undemocratic process.

•Exempt these new condos from Planning and Neighborhood Review

•Exempt these condominiums from affordable housing requirements
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