If this case goes to the SCOTUS, does anyone have any doubt that Chief Justice Roberts will side with the Progressives?
I don’t.
All of San Francisco wants someone to subsidize them to live there.
They think it’s an entitlement for people as cool as they are.
Who would want to retire in San Francisco anyway? It’s a lost city.
advice to SF slumlords
find another occupation
Are politicians in a contest these days to prove who can come up with the stupidest laws?
What happens if Pakdel sells that property?
New owner, lease with old owner doesn’t exist anymore.
Be careful what you vote for.
Given that he was intending to retire in SF, the ordinance and the lower courts are probably doing him a favor. He will likely be thanking them later.
The radical left hates private property and wants to seize it. They can’t do that just yet. For the time being, they’ll have to be content with making it so you can’t use your property - effectively stealing it from you.
The freeze on rents, ordered under Trump, was illegal. The government does not have the right to invalidate the terms of a valid contract between two parties.
This action by SF is illegal, for the same reason.
When they actually do take private property, few will notice, because we’re almost there now.
“No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.”
Article I, Section 9
The State of California is legally a creation of the federal government.
Why would anyone want to retire in San Francisco?
Isn’t that the city with the poop alerts so citizens don’t step in human excrement?
And Pelosi has a mansion there? A people are moving out in droves? Blue State hellhole in progress...
My sister basically had to buy her SF home twice — once to buy it from the previous owner and a second time to buy out a basement renter whom she took on in order to help pay for the first purchase.
(And she still votes Marxist, for which she gets no sympathy from me over suffering from policies imposed by the very people she voted for.)
I’m retired and spending down.
My financial assets will wind up in my septic tank.
I have a female cousin that moved to SF in the mid 80’s. VERY liberal and condecending toward non SF types. She was always upbeat and had a great life.
Now her voice is flat and very depressed. But she won’t leave. Stuff happens.
Article I, Section 10
“No state shall...pass any...ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts...”
This is a baby step toward a Communist ideal where the state owns all and, ultimately, everyone in the State.
This will not have the effect they want it to have.