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What is your definition of moral then? Laws, but particularly the Law described in those tradition's holy books, describe what is acceptable behavior in that society and is often associated with eternal and everlasting punishment after death for breaking them, in addition to sacraments that must be performed to be absolved of various attachments that are made to the person for their behavior.
On the other hand, the owner of this building would have benefitted from the intended effect of rent control on the price of the property when they bought it. There's no doubt that a rent controlled apartment building would fetch less at sale time than a non-rent-controlled equivalent.

Sure, landlords "have the right to change their mind", but only within the legal/regulatory framework in which they've chosen to invest.

But hey, "Uber, but for residential rentals". There's clearly _some_ people who'd benefit from doing end-runs around the rules by which everybody _else_ plays...

(Just think for a minute about how surge pricing for apartment rentals in SF would look... All the "locals" moving out to Oakland or Pleasanton while WWDC or Google IO is on, and moving back in again during Burningman...)
Do you really think polygon intersection is inherently quadratic? It seems plausible to me that there are more efficient algorithms out there.

See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208066
I think if I was her and I was trying to distance myself from him (regardless of the reason) I would remove my name from this petition. Leaving amicably and having your name tied to an unrelated legal matter are two complete opposite ends of the spectrum.
That was not stated in this notice.
This would be an excellent time to:

1. Contact a tenants-rights attorney.

2. Familiarize yourself with housing law and mediation.

In San Francisco, the latter is covered under the San Francisco Rent board:
http://sfrb.org/

The former can be located via the San Francisco Tenants' Union:
http://www.sftu.org/
You really think they will keep it as storage? Once the remaining tenant is out they will renovate everything and rent both units again.
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It's not just because, it's a social priority.

How does this legitimize it? A group that votes to dictate what I can do with my property might be doing it by the letter of the law, but that doesn't make it morally right. If I've earned something (e.g., I've gotten it legitimately through trade, as opposed to theft or fraud), that means I've poured some part of my life into earning that thing. Apart from issues where criminality is involved (theft, fraud, etc.), no life should be subject to the arbitrary dictates of any group.

Each of us should be free to make the most of our lives, as best as each of us can. Some of us will achieve more, others less. And there's no getting around that, because no two people can ever be the same in every respect.

To be clear, I am pro-equality in one fundamental respect: we should strive to be equal before the law.
Why are all landlords assholes again? Why is making a profit evil? Do you sell your services for half of what they are worth just to be nice?
Rent control is in play here I believe to prevent price gouging. Some companies are not very moral/ethical when it comes to tenants. I would argue that the fairer thing (when Rent Control is in place) for owners might be that they can discontinue the contract when it expires but they also forfeit the right to rent that unit for a period of time (like 6 mo or 1 yr). Owners have some right to reclaim the property for own use but then are discouraged from flipping the unit and just reusing it the same way with different people.

When I rented in Boston from operating companies, they always increased rent the maximum allowed every opportunity allowed. This encouraged a lot of churn in the area I lived which I don't think was good for the area. I also had a lot of problems with them never fixing appliances so I moved out. When I started renting directly from personal owners and allowed to go month-to-month then we were both happy and the owners generally never increased rent unless when their costs also increased.
> not to mention supply/demand doesn't work for something with fairly inelastic demand

lolwut?

The free market works pretty OK for gasoline and food (taken as a whole; obviously specific foods are elastic). When was the last time you heard people clamoring for price controls at the grocery store?

Even more to the point, the free market works just fine for housing in the vast majority of the US that does not have any form of rent control.

That so many units in SF are rent controlled is a huge part of the problem here. It reduces the incentives for landlords to maintain properties (the OP specifically cites these problems) and makes it difficult-to-impossible for people in rent-controlled units to move (again, cited by the OP). It also significantly reduces the supply of housing in SF, driving up market-rate rents. Eventually the market-rate rents are so much higher than the rent-controlled rents that landlords have a strong incentive to pull stunts like what's happening here.

The other big part of the problem is that so many people seem to think that the solution to all their economic problems is more regulation. What we're seeing in SF is not a failure of the free market, but rather the failure of an over- and ineptly-regulated market.
Then a better policy would be to price these negative externalities into a single metric that is a multiple of the rent. Want to raise rent by more than max(inflation, 3%)? Offer the renter 2.5x the months rent to leave instead. My cofounder lives in a place that is only $900 / mo with his girlfriend in Toronto because she's been renting there for forever. They are essentially trapped there because their rent would easily double if they moved somewhere else. Meanwhile the landlord doesn't take care of the place at all because there is absolutely no incentive to until they move out. Market warping practices should be eliminated.
The 8900 is just to get her out. Once she is out, they will reconvert the other unit and get two new tenants without priority claims on controlled rent.
Contrary to popular belief, there are other places to live than San Francisco. Almost all of them are more affordable. If you don't want to pay absurd cost of living, move. There are in fact jobs in other parts of the world.
A potential stepping stone to the web of hashes proposal here is the Subresource Integrity spec: http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/subresourceintegrity/

The other thing in this area to watch is ipfs.
When the girl across the bar holds eye contact with you for a couple of seconds and then looks down and away she wants you to come talk to her.

Not everything is always stated in black and white.
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If not for rent control, my studio apartment would be over $3,000 a month. Everyday I thank rent control.
Landlords can impose rent increases far beyond fair market rents for new tenants because it's costly and inconvenient to move, but (in a sellers' market) cheap to replace tenants.

The market rent is exactly what other potential tenants are willing to pay.

Now, you can argue that particular rent control laws are too aggressive, or that the strategy for calculating bounds on rent increases cause excessive opportunity losses.

Or that the inability to charge market prices causes property owners to refuse to rent in the first place, thereby making housing problems even worse.
Someone paying significantly below market rate is almost certainly going to refuse to move out.
I need to be a landlord because my other mortgage is so far underwater I could either foreclose and not be able to buy a suitable place for my family, or be a landlord and be able to pay both mortgages. It seems there would be people around to criticize me no matter which option I chose.
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I was hoping that his was about the inside as an me mployee. I don't know anyone who has worked there but via some third hand reports and he never ending recruiter spam I get (not to mention the content of those messages) leads me to believe its a crappy job. But, I don't know that which is why I wanted to see that article
Ask someone who's been evicted by foreclosure. Say, by way of robosigning.
Page is here - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Qantas-Airline/38377836514044...

I have reported the page, photo, and post yet likes still keep pouring in. Facebook blocked me for spamming saying it was fake yet hasn't blocked the page despite it obviously being fake. Very Disappointing.
You are completely right, and I just got lost. I deleted my nonsense above. Is there more to the main article that I'm missing too?
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> If the majority of owners don't wish to personally utilize their property, and to extract rent from it, what exactly are the renters supposed to buy?

If you offer to pay at least as much for the building as the landlord would expect to make from renting it out then any rational landlord will sell you the building.

> Owners can apparently force renters to bleed ever more money

If they raise the rent significantly above what typical apartments go for in the area then the tenant will move out and they'll have to spend money to find a new tenant and go without rent in the meantime.

Rental housing is one of the most efficient markets in existence. Landlords have nothing to gain by gouging tenants who will only move across the street to keep paying what they are now, which is why that rarely if ever happens. But when the local market price of housing changes, adjusting rents to meet the market is completely reasonable and natural.
> Allowing collisions breaks the immutability requirement, which impacts security in many important cases.

All hashes have collisions. There are no cryptographic hashes that can promise zero collisions.
Neither gasoline nor food are "free markets", even approximately.

Government actively intervenes to influence the supply and price of gasoline, and actively intervenes in food, subsidizing both production and consumption.

So, if whatever is being done for gas and food works well, that's not an endorsement of the free market.
I don't want to attach myself to further discussion of it, but it is still a crash reasonably isolated to their standard library and I took the time to document it so that my feedback could be helpful. If you don't pass it on they will miss this opportunity to improve their platform.
I lived in Chicago before moving to SF a few years ago, and I can't imagine ever going back. There is an argument about jobs, people, and companies that's complex, but people pay so much for so little space because it really is that valuable. The weather is near perfect year round, the food/beer/wine is astounding, the landscape is glorious, and so on. Midwest winters, particularly as climate change is making them worse, would be enough to keep me here, but my quality of life has gone up in about every other way possible.

People pay the premium because it really is that good. If a big tech company decided to move to Milwaukee, every other tech company would just soak up all the people lost.
1 - first, so what? second, nobody needs to live "there". They can move to a different rental.

2 - moving isn't "that" expensive. It's a pain in the ass, but you can do it in a weekend with a few hundred dollar moving truck. You might be able to raise rates a few percent, but you can't just move them significantly above market.
I didn't think we were talking about "holy law" and afterlife punishment.

In that sense, I guess you're correct.

There's still lots of flaws in the theory, for instance morality has changed--slavery was not outlawed by holy laws, and seemingly was considered okay morally.

I don't personally equate legality with anything except written law enforced by people on earth, typically a government. Even in older times, "earth law" did not match "holy law." I don't think that, even at the time of its writing, the holy bible (for instance) described all immoral activity.
s/can rent/cannot rent/
Not from a usability point of view.
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But I suspect renting it to family/AirBnB - and not declaring the income - ends up looking very much like "leaving the building vacant" on official records...
I'll just leave [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5tGpMcFF7U) here.

Dan Dennett has said similar things.
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One of the problems is that San Francisco in the 60s and 70s passed rather strict zoning ordinances to prevent "Manhattanization". So, this city that has a very limited amount of space cannot grow upwards to help meet demand.
Sure, i understand the moral/ethical part, and i'm generally in favor of preventing price gouging. But the vast majority of complaints i've seen are more "my rent increased from 3000 to 4000", when all the other rents in the area are $4000.

I had a bad experience myself renting in boston, that involved the health inspector fining the operating company about 20k.
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While this is inconvenient for the tenant, it's not unfair. Rent control is unfair. Now, with the proceeds, the landlord might invest in new flats which will mean more housing for everyone.
In NYC it depends on the property. Unless the property is rent stabilized, rent can legally be raised by any amount the landlord pleases. Example: http://www.brickunderground.com/blog/2013/08/rent_coach_can_...
I don't know what they will do with the building. I brought up the storage because it makes their motivation clearer, they weren't getting rid of the tenants for any sort of personal reason, it's about using the building for something else (or as you say, putting it back on the market at higher rates).
> Couldn't the owner just ask the person who is renting the unit to move out in a reasonable amount of time?

California has a provision for doing this. It's called the Ellis Act and San Francisco's regulations for Ellis Act evictions require payment of $5k-$15k + $3k per senior/disabled tenant. This remodel + rent increase seems a transparent attempt to circumvent that law. Whether legal or not would require a lawyer to weigh in.
What you're missing is that housing is not a normal good.

Sure, there is a housing marketplace, which can provide some correction. But houses are also homes. People are born in them. People die in them. They love them, they cherish them, they fight for them. There's a lot of truth in the saying, "Home is where the heart is."

What you're missing in that scenario is the large number of people who are displaced not just from their fungible, replaceable housing unit, but their home, their neighborhood, their family, and perhaps their city and their job.

Note also there are substantial class issues in the sentence, "Lower income renters move out, higher income families move in." The notion that poor people should take it on the chin because rich people covet their homes is not politically neutral. One could just as well say that it's the rich people, more able to cope, that should bear the burden of market fluctuations.

So I don't think, "is rent control even a good idea" is the right question. It's more like, "Are there more effective ways than rent control to reduce the harm?"
there are several factors involved in this:

1. Apparently this family has tried this once before and failed, but learned from their mistakes.

2. The lawyer is a real estate broker.

3. This bypasses having to pay for the tenant to be evicted through Ellis.

4. This bypasses other provisions in Ellis and preserves rentability: If they used Ellis, they could not evict the tenant and then rent the place out for 5 years without offering the tenant the option of renting the place at the previous price (other companies bypass this through voluntary evictions by buying out tenants, for, say $30k)

At the end of the day: This bypasses the intent of the law but follows the letter of the law. The intent is to sell the house. They pay less by not buying out the tenant. They preserve the rentability. Reclassifying while a tenant is protected under rent control should be prohibited.
What the linked article fails to explain is why the politics of the Netherlands should influence the farming practices of an entire continent.

Also, since this is posited to have been a political statement in support of William of Orange, one would expect such carrots to be uncommon in the Spanish sphere of influence, against whom he rebelled. Perhaps someone can indicate if that is not the case, though a quick search suggests that orange is the predominant form there too.

Ultimately this sounds like a fun post hoc story, the spread of which was probably driven more by nationalism than fact.
On strictly economic terms, I agree with you. The trouble with the plan you describe is that essentially guts neighborhoods. The very vibrant, interesting neighborhoods that draw people to San Francisco in the first place. By the time the correction occurs, the networks of lower-income people that tend to be the bedrock of the more interesting urban neighborhoods have been disrupted, often fatally. That ship may have sailed, rent control or no.
At first I thought this was a bad move and would make developers wary. But Meerkat's use of Twitter was pretty bad. Not only all of the above but their tweets are completely useless within seconds or minutes and just litter tweet streams. I don't even see why all the tweeting is that necessary. I get all my Meerkat cues via notifications (which I'm about to turn off for useless-ness).
Are they for drunk and driving?
So what? Why do you think you should get to live somewhere highly desireable at a below market rate?
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> I think SF has already ceased to be an attractive place to live.

Or as Yogi Berra allegedly once said: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
No, not necessary. Just sent you an email.
I recommend you change that attitude.

It doesn't take long to learn the basic laws about something that are most likely to affect you. And then consult a lawyer for anything you are not sure about.

Do you have insurance? Same principle.
You most definitely should not be buying rental property without familiarizing yourself with the local rental laws. That's simply awful, awful business.

I don't feel a lot of sympathy for the landlords in SF. If they want to own property that isn't rent controlled, there's a whole big country out there, the vast majority of which isn't rent controlled. They chose to buy under the restrictions that exist. That's their responsibility.
See,
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Because Meerkat made Twitter noticeably worse. All its notifications are useless in a matter of seconds or minutes (vs revolutionizing transportation to tremendous citizen delight).
"I don't care what methodology you're using, if it includes crunch then it's broken."

Rather than saying it is broken, it needs to be said that the team needs to improve. Continuous Improvement, it's where it's at.
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Agile/xp is not a set of practices. It's a set of principles.

Trainers might tell you otherwise.
That's like arguing that surgeons are performing a blue collar job when they're given a diagnosis and test results from another physician. In theory they're performing the same repetitive motion, just like programmers are in theory creating an implementation to solve a given problem.

However, there are provably good and bad surgeons and provably good and bad programmers. The reality is that you're making a lot of decisions when you cut out a tumor or implement a spec, decisions which take skill and practice to get right. I certainly wouldn't want my surgeon to be a cheaper alternative, nor would I want a programmer working for me to be the same. Not all programmers or surgeons are equivalent, since there is a large element of skill and practice.
Waste of time. If I were a judge, I'd order $50 fine, no record, done. And then glare at the attorney for even considering this.
Here's an often overlooked technique for older, self-taught engineers like me: study. Go get this book, The Algorithm Design Manual by Skienna. Also pick up a whiteboard, and a nice set of dry-erase markers.

Read the book, and do whatever exercises you can from the book on the whiteboard. Talk out loud, the way you will in the interviews. After a few weeks and 60 hours of doing this, you'll be ready to blow the minds of the people interviewing you.

When you go to your interview, you will bring your own markers. Then you don't have to deal with the fat, half dried out stuff you encounter during the interview. Also, warm up for an hour or two before you go to the interview, by doing problems from the book on the whiteboard, out loud. This helps you leave nothing to chance, and be ready for whatever they throw at you.

Yeah, it's a waste of time. But you have to play the game. Similarly, when they ask you why you left your last job, lie and tell them you'd accomplished all your goals there, got everything lined up and nailed down, and you're ready to make something happen somewhere else. Don't tell the truth if it's because your managers couldn't care less about doing what's best for the business. If you want to work at the circus, sometimes you gotta jump through some hoops. Big deal, you'll be ok!

Yes, the interview process is broken, but you can actually work at it and do well, even if you're old.

Buy this book even if you're not planning to take my advice and study. Even if you don't study, this should become one of your most treasured books. I myself was amazed at how many things turn out to be graph problems, and had a great time going through this book.

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> when you do that, i'd love to see your opinion then about living in a place where every month you need to set aside a weekend to find a plan-b place just in case your rent jump to a price you can't afford next month.

Do they not offer long term leases? It seems figuring out a more long term solution would be prudent.
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