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Committee advances owner move-in reporting requirements, extends limitations period and seeks consolidation of parallel proposals
Summary
Supervisors advanced amendments requiring declarations and annual occupancy documentation for owner move-in evictions, creating a rebuttable presumption against noncompliant landlords and extending the statute of limitations for wrongful-eviction suits from one to three years; the item was amended and continued to allow sponsors to conform parallel legislative versions.
Supervisor Farrell introduced an ordinance aimed at deterring fraudulent owner move-in (OMI) evictions by imposing new reporting, documentation and transparency requirements on owners who file OMI notices. Farrell told the committee that recent reporting, including NBC Bay Area coverage, suggested that a substantial fraction of OMIs appeared fraudulent and that the city needed stronger tools to enforce good-faith occupancy requirements.
Under the proposed ordinance, owners seeking to recover possession for owner or relative move-in must sign a declaration under penalty of…
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