Since there are, after all, lots of sad housing situations in San
Francisco these days that do not appear on Craigslist, I'm taking a
little moment in this column to highlight one of those and take a break
from the Craigslist trolling, as I have occasionally before, in the interest of keeping you both informed and well roundedly sad. Click here to read the full story...
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