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San Francisco Rent Wars Explained | Oakland News
San Francisco’s rental market is spiraling out of control as tenants bid wars erupt, pushing one-bedroom rents to $3,500 a month — a 17% spike fueled by the tech boom. Landlords are retaliating by neglecting repairs, ignoring calls, or even harassing tenants to evict them, despite California’s anti-harassment laws being hard to enforce. A “first-come, first-served” law exists, but without penalties for landlords who ignore it, the bidding wars continue unchecked. A new city proposal aims to fix this by requiring full cost transparency in ads and leases, plus giving tenants the right to break…
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