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The problem is the SF rent control laws make it extremely difficult to evict non-payers which causes landlords to up-regulate their choosiness to avoid any poss
by stevedekorte 17y ago
The problem is the SF rent control laws make it extremely difficult to evict non-payers which causes landlords to up-regulate their choosiness to avoid any possible problems until risk and reward once again meet.
Sadder still is that SF law makes it next to impossible to evict the physically challenged. I have a blind friend who has told me this has made it impossible for him to rent a decent place in the city.
- madair 17y agoPerhaps you mean to say that the sad thing is SF isn't protecting the blind from being discriminated against?
- costan 17y agoI think the point was that laws that are meant to protect some categories of people can end up hurting them more. Most people's instinctive reaction would be "let's add another anti-discrimination law". The post gives an example of how that approach can fail.
- matthewking 17y agoOnly a film I know, but http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100318/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100318/ comes to mind, was just watching it the other day. From what everyone is saying about the specific laws in SF it all makes more sense.
- tjcrowley 17y agoI call that hood "Specific Whites".