Union-at-Home Ordinances Could Change How Landlords Handle Tenant Disputes

Rent strikes are becoming the default tenant response in San Francisco. At 907 Valencia Street, tenants organized a building-wide association and launched a rent strike after their landlord, Mosser Living, offered them $4,000 each to move out following fire damage that left the building with unrepaired structural issues. Recent rent strikes have resulted in major concessions from landlords. At 434 Leavenworth Street and 209 Geary Street, tenants negotiated directly with their landlord after organizing a rent strike, to secure transparency around maintenance contracts and ask for repairs. The pattern is accelerating. What used to be a rare tactic deployed by politically motivated tenant organizers has become a normalized landlord-tenant negotiation mechanism...