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The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday that will provide more protections to tenants living in illegal units and in-law apartments throughout San Francisco. Click here to read the full story...

Move over California Street. San Francisco's priciest office rents are now on once-gritty Mission Street. Click here to read the full story...

Landlords hoping to change recently passed tenant protections failed Tuesday night to convince the San Francisco Rent Board that the law should only apply to new leases.The new ordinance, part of a package of tenant protections... Click here to read the full story

A federal judge sided with San Francisco in a lawsuit challenging a law that makes it more difficult for landlords to buy out tenants' leases. The San Francisco Apartment Association, a landlord group, claimed that Ordinance No. 255-14 violates landlords' rights... Click here to read full story

Airbnb does victory lap after Proposition F defeat, but it's not over yet Airbnb celebrated at its San Francisco headquarters Wednesday, with the company’s head of global policy and public affairs Chris Lehane boasting about winning the vote in nine of the city’s 11 supervisorial districts Tuesday to defeat the contentious ballot measure to restrict short-term rentals, Proposition F. And while there were smiles all around at Airbnb HQ, there was also a sense that the battle isn’t over. In fact, it’s only beginning. Click Here to Read Full Story  

San Francisco Tenants Union organizers Becca Gourevitch and Andrew Szeto said the year after longtime tenant activist Ted Gullicksen's death was challenging. They are working to carry on his legacy throughout the organization's transition into new leadership. Click here to read the full story...

Former Board of Supervisors president Aaron Peskin has an appealing political cry for the District 3 residents he wants to represent again: Let’s expand rent control to apartment buildings constructed after 1979.  Click here to read the full story...

Assemblywoman Patty López (D-San Fernando) announced Brown signed her bill, AB 1448, which will allow line drying for people once restricted by their property management organizations... Click here to read the full story

The rental market here was already under siege when city officials began an ambitious earthquake retrofitting project whose costs will largely be passed on to renters. Fueled by the city's tech boom, rents have soared, with average one-bedroom units going for $3,500 a month. Low-income tenants are being evicted as a large number of apartments are being taken off the long-term rental market to be turned into condos or leased to users of Airbnb... Click Here to Read the Full Story

San Francisco’s latest attempt to make landlords pay relocation costs for tenants they evict when the property owners go out of the rental business has hit another judicial roadblock. The ordinance, scaled down from a previous measure, would require landlords to pay displaced tenants the difference between... Click here to read the full story