City and County of San Francisco - File #: 150646

• File #: 150646
• Version: 7
• Name: Administrative Code - Amendments to Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Introduced: 7/21/2015
• In control: Clerk of the Board
• Final action: 10/9/2015
• Enactment date: 10/9/2015
• Enactment #: 171-15
• Title: Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to: 1) prohibit, with certain exceptions, rent increases based on the addition of occupants even where a pre-existing rental agreement or lease permits such an increase; 2) prevent evictions based on the addition of occupants if the landlord has unreasonably refused the tenant’s written request, including a refusal based on the amount of occupants allowed by the rental agreement or lease; 3) require landlords, after certain vacancies, to set the new base rent, for the next five years, as the lawful rent in effect at the time of the vacancy; 4) require that there be a substantial violation of a lawful obligation or covenant of tenancy as a basis for the recovery of possession; 5) require a landlord, prior to seeking recovery of possession, to provide tenants an opportunity to cure the unauthorized addition of the tenant’s family members to the tenant’s unit; 6) require that if a landlord seeks to recover possession based on a nuisance, substantial damage, or substantial interference with comfort, safety or enjoyment, the nuisance, substantial damage, or substantial interference be severe, continuing or recurring in nature; 7) prevent a landlord from seeking recovery of possession solely because the tenant is occupying a unit not authorized for residency; 8) require landlords to state in notices to vacate for certain good cause evictions the lawful rent for the unit at the time the notice is served; 9) require the Rent Board to prepare a form in English, Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Russian stating that a notice to vacate may lead to a lawsuit to evict and stating that advice regarding notices to vacate is available from the Rent Board; 10) require landlords to attach a copy of the Rent Board form in the primary language of the tenant to each notice to vacate; and 11) require landlords to plead and prove in any action to recover possession that at least one of the grounds of Administrative Code, Section 37.9(a)-(b) stated in the notice to vacate is the dominant motive for recovering possession.
• Sponsors: Jane Kim, David Campos, Eric Mar, John Avalos

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/9/2015	7	Mayor	RETURNED UNSIGNED
9/29/2015	7	Board of Supervisors	DIVIDED
9/29/2015	7	Board of Supervisors	FINALLY PASSED AS DIVIDED	Pass
9/29/2015	7	Board of Supervisors	FINALLY PASSED	Pass
9/22/2015	7	Board of Supervisors	DIVIDED
9/22/2015	7	Board of Supervisors	PASSED ON FIRST READING	Pass
9/22/2015	7	Board of Supervisors	PASSED ON FIRST READING AS DIVIDED	Pass
9/14/2015	4	Land Use and Transportation Committee	AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE
9/14/2015	3	Land Use and Transportation Committee	AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE	Pass
9/14/2015	4	Land Use and Transportation Committee	AMENDED	Pass
9/14/2015	5	Land Use and Transportation Committee	AMENDED	Fail
9/14/2015	5	Land Use and Transportation Committee	AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE	Pass
9/14/2015	6	Land Use and Transportation Committee	AMENDED	Pass
9/14/2015	7	Land Use and Transportation Committee	DIVIDED
9/14/2015	7	Land Use and Transportation Committee	RECOMMENDED	Pass
9/14/2015	7	Land Use and Transportation Committee	RECOMMENDED AS AMENDED AND DIVIDED	Pass
7/27/2015	3	Land Use and Transportation Committee	CONTINUED AS AMENDED	Pass
7/27/2015	2	Land Use and Transportation Committee	AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING SAME TITLE	Pass
7/21/2015	2	President	SUBSTITUTED AND ASSIGNED
6/30/2015	1	Clerk of the Board	REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT
6/16/2015	1	President	ASSIGNED