[spiralpolitik]

Here are the major exemptions to Rent Control in SF:

1. You live in a building constructed after June of 1979.

2. You live in subsidized housing, such as HUD housing projects.

3. You live in a dormitory, monastery, nunnery, etc.

4. You live in a residential hotel and have less than 28 days of continuous tenancy.

So most of the new developments in the last 30 years aren't covered by RC.

[aetherson]

I hadn't realized the post-1979 thing! Sorry for the misinformation above. I guess that every place I ever considered renting in SF was an older building.