San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued five property
owners for allegedly evicting long-term tenants so they could rent apartments
to tourists through Airbnb Inc. and other online home rental services. Read what Bloomberg Business Week says about the lawsuit
A new law requiring additional tenant notification on prior bed bug infestations. The disclosure requirement took effect for new tenants July 1 and will apply to existing tenants Jan. 1. It requires landlords to provide tenant with a bed bug history of the apartment while prohibiting them from “showing, renting, or leasing a vacant dwelling unit that the landlord knows has a bed bug infestation.” Full text of legislation can be viewed at: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB551