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Rent Board asks for staff to handle seismic retrofit petitions and rising buyout filings
Summary
The San Francisco Rent Board told supervisors it expects a large increase in petitions tied to the soft‑story seismic retrofit ordinance and in buyout agreements and declarations, and requested five new positions across two years and technology upgrades to handle the workload.
Robert Collins, acting executive director of the San Francisco Rent Board, told the Budget & Finance Committee the office is facing substantial new workload driven by recent legislation. Collins said buyout agreements and required declarations (a law effective March 7, 2015) have surged and that the soft‑story seismic retrofit ordinance will affect roughly 5,000 buildings (about 50,000 units), producing capital‑improvement pass‑through petitions.
Collins said the Rent Board…
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