Rent

This rent control issue is really scaring me. I was fine till my lovely co worker started talking about it and showed me one of the articles in the newspaper.

Pretty much if Prop. 98 passes, rent control will be removed and people are saying the landlords can pretty much either kick you out or raise your rent. As we all know, living in San Francisco is not affordable. If the rent in my place goes up I might not be able to afford it. I mean, if it hits 1,000 then maybe but my room mate aka my brother won't be able to. He can barely pay what we pay now and it's peanuts. PEANUTS what we are paying. My mother rented this apt. in 70's and she never moved. We live there now.

I don't want to move out and find another place. I don't want to move in with a bunch of people I don't know in another part of SF. I don't want to shove in 5 people into a tiny 2 room place just to keep living downtown.

They say that if rent control is gone, more buildings will be build and rent will be lowered. Haven't they figured out it doesn't work that way? The article also said that Boston did away with their's and rent doubled. You know it will happen in San Francisco.

She's still babbling on about it. I really want her to shut up about it. I told my mother and she said they always put something like that on the ballot and it never passes. She told me not to worry and it will be fine.

Rar... I hope so.