Brickbat: Paying for the Privilege

A new San Diego, California, ordinance requires landlords to pay tenants two to three months' rent if they terminate a lease without cause. Rafael Bautista, director of the San Diego Tenants Union, a local activist group, said the law does not go far enough. He wants the city council also to cap rent increases at 2 percent a year.

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[Chumby]

The San Diego Tenants Union has the ability to buy or construct rentals then themselves cap rent increases at 2% per year.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

What are the terms of the lease both parties agreed to?

[B G]

Looking at the actual ordinance, it appears to apply to all tenancy, whether the arrangement is "month-to-month" or based in a lease.

https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/o-21647_final.pdf

It seems like lazy reporting for the author not to have looked up what's fairly easy to find. I've never read all of the fine print on an apartment lease, but my understanding has always been that the contract essentially locks in a certain rental term for a fixed period of time; I know I've had to pay a final month's rent (or maybe my employer did, since I was moving for work) when I had to move during a lease, but I've never had a landlord ask me to move during the term of a lease and I'm not sure it could be legal for that to happen on a "no cause/no-fault" basis.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

Bautista needs to end up in a shallow grave out in the desert. No rent increases ever!

[Longtobefree]

Here's an option I bet Rafael hasn't thought of: let's outlaw renting.
Win, win, win, win.
No more evictions
No more rent increases
No more background checks
No more credit checks

[Carey Allison]

I know! Let's pass a law that says occupancy confers title. Of course, some time or duration of occupancy would have to be specified. Raise your hands if you favor 30 minutes as an adequate period of occupancy to confer title.

Wouldn't that be fair and just and equitable?

[TJJ2000]

Gov-Guns will pay my rent!! Says activists.
It wasn't that long ago such actions were considered violent criminals.

[Dillinger]

>>landlords to pay tenants two to three months’ rent if they terminate a lease without cause.

the “they” above is ambiguous. seems like contract interference but the city is a shadow party to the lease, so …

[SRG]

I don't think the SDTU is fully onboard with the idea of private property...

Nor are they likely to understand that as they impose more and more restrictions on landlords, the supply of rental properties will diminish.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

"if they terminate a lease without cause". Can only imagine where that'll lead. Looking forward the imaginative, flimsy or completely made up causes landlords come up with.

[Chuck P. (The Artist formerly known as CTSP)]

The dekulakization of CA continues. No one needs 8 acres, 2 homes or to own a small business.

[Libertariantranslator]

Now that German AfD puppets and actual anarco-dummies have neutered the national LP, our evaporating spoiler votes no longer slow The Looter Kleptocracy's race to idiocracy. Confiscating grow houses caused the 2008 mortgage-backed Crash. California's People's State is evidently determined to outdo G Waffen Bush at economy-bashing and crash-causing.

[GroundTruth]

Here's a concept for all unions: if you own it, you control it; if you don't own it, you can agree to the terms offered by the owner, or not. If not, you are free to go on your way, no one if forcing you to stay. If you stay without permission, you are trespassing and charges will be brought up against you.

This goes for workers' unions as well as tenants' unions.

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