Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that he will introduce legislation to protect tenants from evictions following foreclosure proceedings.
Because of San Francisco’s rent control laws, which limit annual rent increases, tenants living in homes built before June 1979 cannot be evicted unless the landlord can show just cause for the eviction.
But under California law, homes built after June 1979 are unaffected by local rent control laws.
Supervisor John Avalos introduced legislation to protect tenants living in nonrent-controlled buildings from evictions unless the landlord can show just cause.
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