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Budget committee advances San Francisco housing-inventory ordinance after heated public comment
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee voted 3–0 on Nov. 18, 2020 to forward an ordinance creating a citywide housing inventory to the full Board, after BLA cost estimates and nearly four hours of public comment that ranged from strong support to fierce opposition over privacy and cost concerns.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Budget & Finance Committee voted 3–0 on Nov. 18 to advance an ordinance directing the Rent Board to collect an annual inventory of the city’s rental housing stock, moving the measure to the full Board with a positive recommendation.
The ordinance would require owners to report unit-level information — including mailing address, owner or manager contact, unit square footage and bedroom count, occupancy status and dates, and a base rent reported in $250 increments — beginning July 1, 2022 for larger buildings and phased in for smaller owners. Supervisor Sandra Lee Feuer, who sponsored the measure, said the inventory is designed to be “not a rental registry” and that collected information would be limited to housing units, not tenants.
Why it matters: BLA estimates provided to the committee put year-one implementation costs between $1.4 million and $3.2 million,…
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