That's how Richard Kennedy felt when he got the letter from No Boundaries. It was so obviously an act of retaliation. Turned out what the landlord was doing wasn't legal. A few weeks later, Kennedy received the rent increase. The problem with a straight eviction for renovations is that there's a cost to landlords.
Landlords understandably hate the ordinance, and recently took the city to court to strike it down.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law last year. When Kennedy learned his landlord was breaking the law, he posted a flyer inside the Eileen Court building that included the DCLU's phone number. Fellow tenants followed up. DCLU received several complaints from tenants and, in an unusual slap, took action against No Boundaries. Turns out it's illegal to raise rents in retaliation, too.