At least five members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the
Fire Department, the Department of Building Inspection and the city’s
landlords have come out in support of a set of measures aimed at improving fire safety in residential buildings. Click here to read 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