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Rent control in San Francisco doesn't apply to single family homes or condos. As the owner you can raise the rent to market rate.
by gnopgnip 5y ago
Rent control in San Francisco doesn't apply to single family homes or condos. As the owner you can raise the rent to market rate.
- wahern 5y agoYou're right. I was confused. It doesn't cover the main residence of single-family homes. But AFAIU the 1994 rent control extension did encompass pre-1980 in-laws in single-family homes, which are quite common in the vast areas of San Francisco containing single-family homes. (Most homes built after 1930 put the primary living space on the 2nd floor. The first floor was a garage, and it was extremely common to build an in-law at the back of the garage.) They would be more common but for the fear people have renting them out. The 1994 law encompassed multi-unit buildings of 4 or less, which were previously excluded from rent control. An elderly neighbor of mine owns a classic 1960s-era 3-story, 2-unit apartment building. He lives in one unit and keeps the other vacant so that his children won't have any trouble refurbishing or selling the asset when he dies. This is a nearly identical scenario to someone living in a single-family home with an ADU. There are several such homes on my block, though I don't know the owners so don't know how many are kept unnecessarily vacant.