California now has state price control and just cause for all multi-unit buildings and some single family homes with a certificate of occupancy issued more than 15 years ago. See details on this new law by clicking on this link  http://hrcsf.org/ab-1482-ca-price-control-and-just-cause/ or going to “tenants rights info” tab above and clicking on AB 1482.

Our Response to Yat-Pang Au’s Open Letter to San Francisco Full response letter: Dear Yat-Pang Au, As many of our staff — and certainly all of the tenants with whom we work — are San Franciscans, we are responding to your Sunday advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle. Our conversations so far with tenants who read the ad show that tenants know the truth about Veritas. You founded Veritas in 2007 at a time when you knew a tech boom was coming. As Bloomberg reports, “The city was on the cusp of another technology boom, drawing entrepreneurs and money from across … (click for more)

Energized by the recent rent rollback for 500+ tenants in 34 buildings throughout SF, Veritas tenants are rallying again on FRIDAY, NOV. 15 at 4:30 PM at 1 Bush St., to roll back the rents at more buildings across SF. Join us! Our immediate demands of Veritas are: – Cancelation of pending capital improvement passthroughs – Rollback of ALL capital improvement passthroughs already impacting tenants – Rollback of ALL operations & maintenance rent increases ruled on prior to last year’s change in the law Additionally, we are putting out a call to the Board of Supervisors for a citywide rent freeze on … (click for more)

Veritas Tenants Win Cancelation of All Mortgage Rent Increases After months of public pressure and protests, SF’s largest landlord drops all O&M rent increases filed since change of law After months of public pressure and protests, including a huge march that shut down four blocks of mid-day traffic, tenants under SF’s largest landlord, Veritas Investments, won a key demand: the immediate cancelation of all 7% Operations & Maintenance (O&M) rent increases imposed by Veritas since the change in the law last year. “It’s been an arduous fight, but I feel like we won a battle for the rights of tenants … (click for more)