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San Francisco Examiner - November 5, 2004
Adriel Hampton, Staff Writer
Supervisor Chris Daly is carrying legislation that would bring two-unit apartment buildings into The City's condo-conversion lottery process and sharply reduce the yearly conversion allowance for buildings where a disabled or senior tenant has been evicted.
Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez is moving forward with a plan to allow tenants to move in a partner or family member without fear of eviction, despite any such restrictions on their lease.
Both measures are scheduled for a special 1 p.m. hearing Monday at City Hall.
The proposed limits on condo conversion come as moderate groups are working to craft legislation to allow more condo sales in the interest of promoting home ownership.
Tenant activists, though, are concerned that real estate speculation is driving a new wave of Ellis Act evictions -- a process in which a landlord goes out of the rental business -- and that those evictions have hit seniors and people with AIDS hardest. According to city statistics, landlords have submitted Ellis petitions for 328 units in the past nine months, compared to 128 in the same period last year.
"Public policy should promote and reward good behavior and not reward negative behavior," said AIDS Housing Alliance founder Brian Basinger.
Basinger helped shape the Daly condo legislation, which would set aside 175 of the 200 annual conversions for buildings without eviction of a vulnerable tenant within the past five years.
Opposing the plan are groups promoting homeownership in The City, as well as property owners who have been waiting years to convert jointly owned buildings to condos.
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