> In December, mere days before I began my house hunt, Assembly Member Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, introduced legislation that would limit security deposits to

> In December, mere days before I began my house hunt, Assembly Member Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, introduced legislation that would limit security deposits to no more than one month’s rent. This reforms a decades-old state threshold that permits landlords to charge tenants security deposits that amount to two months’ rent.