While the various landlord and realtor groups suing did not comment on this development, individual landlords told the Board of Supervisors why they opposed the law in a December 2018 City Hall hearing.
Wendy Wong, from the San Francisco Coalition for Good Neighborhoods, said "we understand there are hardships for tenants, but you should know we also have hardship from the landlord side. There are so many harassment cases."
Especially in San Francisco, Wong argued, city leaders have been "extreme" in applying laws to limit the rights of small property owners, which often lead to "extremely expensive" lawsuits filed by tenants.
But another commenter at the 2018 hearing, Kyle Retzik, who was profiled by the San Francisco Chronicle, said real estate companies who were unknown to him bought his property and tried to evict him and his family.
After he fought the eviction legally and won, he said they immediately doubled his rent, which he framed as an effort to push his family out.
Joseph Tobener, a local tenant attorney, said Monday that he doesn't expect landlords will stop hiking rents to pressure tenants to leave. But he does think the newly won law will give tenants another way to fight back.
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