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by owlmonkey 3917 days ago
I don't follow your train of thought on in-laws. Because they're small, they're unlikely to serve for 'hosted' rentals and more likely to be only short term rentable up to 90 days. e.g. when the existing renter in the in-law goes on vacation. So why does this proposition want to ban that use case entirely instead of just restrict it to 75 days?
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gkop 3917 days ago
There is recent legislation enabling the legalization of unpermitted in-laws and creation of new in-laws. Therefore short-term in-law rentals are disallowed by Prop F, idea being the new in-laws are hoped to contribute to regular (mostly rent-controlled I believe) housing. See http://hoodline.com/2015/09/supervisors-approve-in-law-legis... .
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smsm42 3917 days ago
In-laws and regular rental apartments are quite different things, so if they hope that this would make a difference in the market I think they would be disappointed. If somebody has unused space that is not being rented or occupied already then converting it to a rentable unit would be a considerable expense, especially if one has to be ADA-compliant, etc. I doubt that a lot of people would go to that expense only to rent out the units well under market prices (otherwise, there's no point in rent-controlling them).

> idea being the new in-laws are hoped to contribute to regular (mostly rent-controlled I believe)

No, the idea is to increase specifically rent-controlled stock, with the preference of no new rental space at all over new rental space that is not rent-controlled. At least this is how it looks from the proposals.

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gkop 3917 days ago
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. I don't support rent control either, but I suspect there is still money to be made building rent control in-laws in these boom times - and perhaps even more money to be made putting in-laws on Airbnb. Also re: ADA the point that the new in-laws are generally on the ground floor seems to me a plausible reason why ADA-compliance may be easier than otherwise.

I agree that's how it looks from proposals, I think you have articulated the politics in a helpful way.

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