“While LLCs and LPs allow tax benefits to corporate landlords, they also offer the benefit of anonymity"
As both tenants and landlords struggle to untangle state and local laws — the vulnerable remain at risk.
What California legislators did — and didn’t — accomplish on evictions, housing, police, and labor in the final days of their session.
Veritas’s self-imposed moratorium comes ahead of proposed legislation to protect renters.
No local cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed, but some workers have been sent home.
The discovery comes during a tense week between tenant organizers and the city’s biggest landlord, which is selling off more than 2,000 units.
Were it not for former Mayor Gavin Newsom’s veto, tenants in newer buildings would be afforded just cause eviction protections and relocation subsidies.
Vallie Brown was Mayor London Breed’s District 5 appointee, and one of few allies on the Board of Supervisors.
The incumbent District 5 supervisor bought the Fillmore Street building with co-owners in 1994 for $275,000. Two decades later, she sold it for $2.6 million.

