The San Francisco Homeless Tenants Union

Kane is so fucking dumb he thinks SFUSD school board members should be able to see the future. The renamings were back in 2021, dumbass

hate when someone says “gay people switch most of the time” i fear you haven’t met gay people irl actually

It is diabolical that rent control is not means-tested. Rent control in SF is determined not by a tenant’s income, but by the building’s structure and the year it was built. Was it built before June 1979? It’s probably rent controlled. If Marc Andreessen or Garry Tan signed a lease in a duplex built in 1978, their landlord would not be allowed to increase their rent by more than 60% of Bay Area CPI/year (1.6% this year) Meanwhile, an elementary school teacher living in a single family unit built just two years later in 1980 can see a 40% annual rent increase. There are no rules against that! 1 in 5 rent-controlled tenants in SF pays less than 50% of market rent. No income analysis. No verification. No one even asks! We means-test food stamps. We means-test Medicaid. We means-test student aid. But the biggest housing subsidy in San Francisco? Yeah, we’re gonna base that one on whether your building was framed before or after June 1979. Unrelated: does anyone know why the rent is so damn high?