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My understanding is you don't "qualify" for rent control in SF. You automatically get it when you move into a building built before 1979.

Then the landlord can only increase rent (as a general rule) by about 1% per year.

So there are people living in 4 bedroom homes in the middle of the best parts of the Mission paying $1000 a month in rent where market rate would be between $6000-8000.

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Man, I don't understand anything about SF housing :p At that point, the landlords should be putting all their places on AirBNB themselves! Or arranging for tenants to sublet at market rates and taking a cut under the table, to reduce their chance of being exposed a bit.

They can't just kick out the current tenants to do that.