Senate Bill 1053 - Forbidding Section 8 discrimination

During the week of February 17, 2016, Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) introduced a bill called SB 1053 that is supported by Tenant’s Together, and other nonprofit organizations. SB 1053 is a bill that forbids landlords from discriminating against renters with Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers (federal housing vouchers) solely based on their source of income. Click here to read the full story...

New Law Requiring Additional Tenant Notification on Prior Bed Bug Infestations

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

New Law Governing Background Checks For Employees - Margaret J. Grover*

The California legislature and governor passed several new laws governing the employer-employee relationship that will take effect on January 1, 2012. One of these significantly restricts the ability to conduct background checks on current and prospective employees. Under California Labor Code Section 1024.5, employers may not obtain consumer credit reports for employment purposes. While this does not seem like a significant issue, the definition of “consumer credit report” is broad, and includes “any written, oral, or other communication of any information by a consumer credit reporting agency bearing on a consumer's credit worthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity, which is used or is expected to be used, or collected in whole or in part, for the purpose of serving as a factor in establishing the consumer's eligibility for: (1) credit to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, or (2) employment purposes, or (3) hiring of a dwelling unit…”

Rebuilding Together

The Professional Property Management Association of San Francisco is proud to announce that it is sponsoring the Rebuilding Together project for a second year in a row. Now in its 22nd year, Rebuilding Together San Francisco provides free repairs to low income seniors and free renovations to nonprofit facilities throughout the city. Rebuilding Together insures that low-income seniors in San Francisco remain safe, warm, and independent in their homes and those community members in need can receive services from social service agencies in functional, dignified environments. Every year Rebuilding Together organizes a citywide event called National Rebuilding Day on the last Saturday of April, in which teams of volunteers collect at job sites throughout the city to make these free repairs. We are proud to announce that the PPMA has committed to sponsoring one of these projects again this year. Joe Gibson of Commercial Energy and I have volunteered to be the Volunteer Co-Captains for o

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