San Francisco rents keep rising – IOTW Report

San Francisco rents keep rising

SFChronicle– Protests against landlords are commonplace these days. Try to evict a tenant — especially through the Ellis Act — and you’ll probably have people shouting through bullhorns outside your building in about five minutes flat.

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There was no such reaction when Kelly Dwyer — a city worker, an elected member of the local Democratic Party leadership and the mother of a 5-year-old girl and a 1-year-old boy — was forced to move out of her Sunset District rental home. The house is empty, the moving truck has left for Vacaville and nobody really noticed.

Dwyer wasn’t actually evicted. But when her landlord — who lives in China — sent a letter in February notifying her the monthly rent on the two-bedroom home was rising from $2,100 to $3,000, it meant Dwyer had no choice but to move.

The contract compliance officer for the city of San Francisco and her husband, a Vacaville firefighter, make a good living. But when they looked for a two-bedroom home with a rent low enough so they could still pay for child care and sock some money away for savings, they realized they were not only priced out of San Francisco, but San Mateo, Berkeley and Oakland, too.  MORE

10 Comments on San Francisco rents keep rising

  1. Awww geez. So they’re a married couple? A man and a woman? With natural children?

    How much does it take to get through her thick skull that heteros with children are not welcome in the rainbow city?

  2. Why did the landlord jack the rent? Because he can. It’s called supply and demand, and it is a basic tenet in economics. No doubt this lady is all in favor of government regulations which increase the cost of doing business, and other government regulations which restrict the right of business people to raise prices to cover the increased costs. That is a recipe for ultimate economic disaster, but Democrats really don’t care about that.

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