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San Francisco supervisors pass rent-stabilization ordinance after separate vote on roommate rule
Summary
The Board of Supervisors approved an amendment to the city's residential rent-stabilization and arbitration ordinance. The board first adopted the ordinance with the contested roommate provision removed, then voted separately on the roommate language, recording a 7-4 roll call on that section.
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to amend the city's residential rent-stabilization and arbitration ordinance after separating a contested roommate provision for an individual vote.
The board first adopted the bulk of the ordinance without the roommate language and then took a separate roll-call on the roommate provision. After debate, the board recorded a 7-to-4 vote on the roommate section.
The ordinance package had been discussed and substantially agreed to at a prior meeting, according to several supervisors. Supervisor Scott Wiener, who described himself in the debate as supporting "flexibility in allowing people to add roommates," said he favored limiting landlord control over adding one…
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