Mayor Daniel Lurie opened the full Board of Supervisors meeting with a message about what he calls “a rent emergency.” The good news, he said, is that San Francisco is “finally moving in the right direction.”
But Lurie quickly tempered that optimism with a warning: Rents are rising faster in San Francisco than in any other major U.S. city. The median rent has increased 25.6 percent over the past year.
“People who lose their homes struggle to find somewhere to go,” Lurie said…