by Joshua Sabatini
San Francisco property owner groups want to take The City to court over new housing regulations they say go too far and take a wrongheaded approach to addressing soaring rents. Two lawsuits filed this week argue that San Francisco’s two recently adopted housing laws, which are intended to address the housing crisis, are pre-empted by the state’s Ellis Act, which allows property owners to evict tenants if they want to get out of the rental business.…[ Read more ]