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Committee votes to send revised ‘‘Eviction Protections 2’’ to full Board after hours of public comment and amendments
Summary
After a lengthy second hearing with more than 60 public speakers, the Land Use & Transportation Committee advanced an ordinance strengthening tenant protections, adopting amendments on nuisance language and a five‑year vacancy‑control limit, and voted separately to advance roommate/subletting provisions to the full Board.
The Land Use & Transportation Committee advanced an ordinance known as Eviction Protections 2 to the full Board on Tuesday after a marathon second hearing and hours of public comment that split landlords and tenants.
Supervisor Jane Kim, who sponsored the measure, framed the package as a response to a surge in evictions and a tool to reduce displacement among vulnerable residents. Kim cited Rent Board data in the hearing: “there were 2,122 notices of eviction filed with the rent board over the year ending 02/28/2015,” she said, and noted that represented a sharp increase over several years. Kim told the committee the ordinance requires multilingual eviction notices (including Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog and Russian), provides tenants a chance to cure certain minor violations, clarifies protections for tenants in units that were illegally converted, and codifies vacancy‑control provisions consistent with state law.
The committee heard testimony from a large and diverse public turnout.…
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