Data includes eviction notices filed with the San Francisco Rent Board per San Francisco Administrative Code 37.9(c). A notice of eviction does not necessarily indicate that the tenant was eventually evicted, so the notices below may differ from actual evictions. Notices are published since January 1, 1997.

Contains buyout declarations and buyout agreements filed at the Rent Board. Rent Ordinance Section 37.9E, effective March 7, 2015, is a new provision that regulates "buyout agreements" between landlords and tenants under which landlords pay tenants money or other consideration to vacate their rent-controlled rental units. For more information, please see: http://sfrb.org/new-ordinance-amendment-regulating-buyout-agreements

Data includes eviction notices filed with the San Francisco Rent Board per San Francisco Administrative Code 37.9(c). A notice of eviction does not necessarily indicate that the tenant was eventually evicted, so the notices below may differ from actual evictions. Notices are published since January 1, 1997. Please note that there are blank values for neighborhoods that could not be automatically assigned. These counts are automatically derived and there could be errors, please check the source to verify accuracy. The neighborhood boundaries used in this dataset correspond to these: https://data.sfgov.org/d/p5b7-5n3h

Petitions may be filed for a variety of reasons, most commonly to have the Rent Board determine the rent. Some of the other common petition filing grounds include: decrease in housing services, illegal increase, failure to repair and maintain, roommate proportional share of the rent, utility passthrough challenge, water passthrough challenge, violation of the Residential Hotel Visitor Policy, capital improvement passthroughs, operating and maintenance passthroughs, extension of time (to perform capital improvement work), comparable rents, intent to withdraw (Ellis), utility passthrough petition, utility passthrough worksheet, Costa-Hawkins determination, Rules and Regulations §1.21, capital improvement hardship applications, hardship applications, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Petitions are also accepted on “other” grounds. For more information, please see: http://sfrb.org/fact-sheet-5-landlord-petitions-and-passthroughs and http://sfrb.org/fact-sheet-6-tenant-petitions.

In accordance with Rules and Regulations Section 1.12 (http://bit.ly/17Oq75y), the Rent Board sets the annual allowable rent increase for rent controlled units. The new rates are effective every year on March 1. The amount is based on 60% of the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for All Urban Consumers in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose region for the 12-month period ending October 31, as posted in November by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This dataset includes requests for information filed with the San Francisco Rent Board under SF Admin. Code 37.9(i) or (j). Under the Code, residents receiving an eviction notice may claim protected status either due to age and/or disability and length of tenancy or based on length of tenancy and occupancy of a child under the age of 18 during the school year. They need not be filed as estoppels. However, it has become common practice to add the request pursuant to (I) or (j) to estoppels, which is a legal term for limiting a legal action that could normally be taken, e.g. evicting. Data are available starting in January 1999.

Appeals are filed when parties are seeking review of decisions made by the Rent Board and are decided by the Rent Board Commission. Grounds for appeals include: substantive appeals, procedural problems and hardship appeals. For more information, please see: http://sfrb.org/fact-sheet-8-hearings-mediations-and-appeals.

Data includes eviction notices filed with the San Francisco Rent Board per San Francisco Administrative Code 37.9(c). A notice of eviction does not necessarily indicate that the tenant was eventually evicted, so the notices below may differ from actual evictions. Notices are published since January 1, 1997.