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Title:
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Ordinance amending the Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance (Administrative Code Chapter 37), by amending Sections 37.2, 37.3, 37.8, 37.9, 37.9B, and 37.11A, to: clarify the definition of rental units to include units regardless of zoning or legal status; provide that parking or storage or similar facilities on the same lot may not be severed by the landlord without just cause or tenant consent, except where necessitated by serious landlord hardship or circumstances beyond the landlord's control; extend coverage of the ordinance to non-tourist tenancies in residential hotels by eliminating the 32-day residency requirement for those tenancies; limit imposition of banked rent increases to 8% per year and require more specific notice; require more specific notice for rent increases authorized under California Civil Code Sections 1954.50 et seq., and require a rent arbitration hearing for certain increases not authorized by Civil Code Sections 1954.50 et seq.; prohibit rent increases or evictions solely for additional occupants, where the total number of occupants is within Housing Code occupancy limits; expand the statute of limitations from three years to five years from discovery, for refunds of rent overpayments due to null and void rent increases; clarify that all endeavors to recover possession for just cause under Section 37.9(a), must be in good faith without ulterior motive and with honest intent; require relocation expenses of $2,000 for each authorized occupant (including any minor child) who has lived in a unit for 12 months as of the time of vacation of the unit, where the unit is to be demolished or otherwise permanently removed from housing use, or where the tenant must relocate due to capital improvements or substantial rehabilitation work or an owner-move-in eviction, with one-half paid upon notice and one-half paid within 72 hours after vacation of the unit, and with these amounts to be increased annually according to the rate of increase in the "Rent of Primary Residence" expenditure category of the Consumer Price Index (CPI); provide that a tenant's civil action against a landlord for abridgement of rights under this Chapter may also be brought against the landlord's successor in interest; certain technical corrections to conform numbering to prior Chapter 37 amendments; and, amending San Francisco Housing Code Chapter 5, Section 503(b) to make a technical correction, and amending San Francisco Housing Code Chapter 5, Section 503(d), to clarify that the protections of that Section extend to all persons by deleting the references to "families," to clarify that the Section promotes affordable housing, and to clarify that the Section protects prospective and current tenants.
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