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Eviction protection proposal postponed
By: Joshua Sabatini
11/02/09 6:03 PM PST
A vote on a proposal to extend eviction protections to tenants in about 20,000 rental units that have gone onto the market since June 1979 was postponed for at least a week on Monday by the Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee.
The City requires that landlords offer “just cause” for evictions of tenants living in rental units built prior to June 1979 – the same units that have controls on rent increases – but no such protections are in place for those units built later than that date.
Supervisor John Avalos introduced the legislation that would make “just cause” evictions apply to all rental units in the city. The committee continued the legislation, noting more time was needed to add more information about the need for the proposal and for the consideration of possible amendments. There are 15 just cause reasons for eviction.
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