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This system of tenants having to look for a new place every 2 years is extremely weird to my German eyes where once you are tenant, you always pay your rent, an
by est31 6y ago
This system of tenants having to look for a new place every 2 years is extremely weird to my German eyes where once you are tenant, you always pay your rent, and don't do bad things, the contract can't be easily terminated by the landlord.
- refurb 6y agoYou don’t have to move in SF after 2 years, but without rent control you may not have a choice.
- Thorrez 6y agoI think there could be a middle ground: rent control that allows increases that average what the free market would follow (this can be determined by looking at how rent is changing in non-rent-controlled apartments), or even a few percent higher than that. This will stop landlords from doing vicious increases, but also will prevent renters from acquiring absurdly low rents.
- refurb 6y agoThat would certainly be an improvement. Right now SF allows 60% of CPI, so less than inflation. The state-wide rent control allows CPI + 5% or 10%, whichever is lower, which doesn’t seem like much of a limit. Just increasing it to CPI in SF seems like an improvement. Even pensioners get CPI adjustments.