San Francisco passes sweeping pandemic-related eviction ban

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 9, 2020 | Trisha Thadani

[KingofZion]

Just like the Hamptons. Stay forever. What is the incentive to pay rent?

[jdsteel]

Landlords are the evil rich. Just ask the multi-millionaire liberal politicians.

[2banana]

I foresee no rentals in San Francisco.

But long term hotel rooms.

[Strident]

I wonder what the consequences will be. I imagine the supply of rentable properties will shrink. Yielding a net contraction of affordable housing.

Virtue signaling is so satisfying even when, or better, especially when, the results are completely unvirtuous.

[Big Red Badger]

Newsome will probably
Mandate it for the
Entire State.
Socialism, Good!
Orange Man, Bad.

[Vermont Lt]

Did they give landlords the same “jubilee” to their mortgage holders?

[dsrtsage]

That will spur investment

[Gay State Conservative]

You can be sure that even before the Wuhan Flu it took 2 years to evict a tenant in San Fransicko.Now it will probably take 4 years.

[Ratman0823]

This is step 1 in perpetuating the virus-related panic in SF for at least the next year or two. You’ve got at least 10 moonbats on the city council, plus the mayor and the goober in Sacramento.

What could possibly be wrong?

[PilotDave]

Contract law? Gone. Personal property, nope.

[KevinB]

I wonder what the consequences will be.

Only those with sterling credentials will be approved for leases. Or Landlords will insist of full-year rent being paid in advance.

[Still Thinking]

So are they also telling the banks they can’t require the landlords to make their mortgage payments?

[GreyHoundSailor]

Then property taxes should be optional. How would that go over?

[cgbg]

The landlords will be exempt from property taxes during this period—or not... :-(

[Revel]

I cannot even believe this kind of thing could happen in America. Total disregard for the landlords property, expenses, and other issues. A landlord could even watch their property being destroyed and they can’t do anything about it. This is pure lawlessness by politicians. Some landlords only have one or two properties and there entire income and life is dependent on the income. This completely destroys those landlords. They will have to go live under a bridge before this is over. This becomes a matter of demanding that a landlord provide housing, repairs, and pay the property taxes for such tenants housing just because the governors order it to be so. Think about how evil and lawless that is.

[Taxman]

An unconstitutional taking?

What say you, FReeper lawyers?

[Spirochete]

Article I, Section 10
Impairing the obligation of contracts.

[CincyRichieRich]

Ain’t communist fascism grand!

[Truth29]

This sounds like a disguised government confiscation of private property.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Inverse condemnation of all rental properties. If someone can find a judge in California who is not a socialist they have a good class action lawsuit.