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True, but a renter is also disincentivized to vote for allowing people to build apartment complexes because of NIMBYism -- they don't want to be kicked out of t
by cbhl 13y ago
True, but a renter is also disincentivized to vote for allowing people to build apartment complexes because of NIMBYism -- they don't want to be kicked out of their current living arrangements so that someone can spend 6 months building a new apartment complex in its place that might have lower rent.
The people who would unabashedly vote for the repeal such laws would likely be the people who don't live in SF yet but who want to live/move there.
- simoncion 13y agoIf the existing tenants scream loudly enough, they can get a deal hammered out: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Deal-protects-tenants-of-Trinity-2627551.php http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Deal-pro... I'm not sure what those several hundred people who were living there were doing for housing while construction was underway, though. Maybe the "moving expenses" that the landlord covered included assistance with locating new temporary places to live?