As San Francisco’s housing shortage gets worse, there’s increasing
pressure on tenants living in rent-controlled apartments to vacate so
their landlords can start charging a market rate in the rapidly
gentrifying city. This pressure often comes in the form of a buyout.
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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