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A comment on Governor Brown's housing proposal could mean sweeping Bay Area changes. Parent comment

Re:Governor Brown's housing proposal could mean sweeping Bay... by sbov on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @03:14PM (#11724874)
What percentage of home owners are people who have owned their house for a long time (to benefit from prop 13), need zero work done (unlikely if you've owned your house for a long time), and whose behavior can be reduced to a financial equation?
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Re:Governor Brown's housing proposal could mean sweeping Bay... by secabeen on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @04:28PM (#11725611)
My guess is that a lot of people do interior work without permits. If you're tearing down an interior wall and re-building a bathroom, there's no evidence of that from outside, so no simple way for the city to stop you.
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Re:Governor Brown's housing proposal could mean sweeping Bay... by pjlegato on Thursday May 19, 2016 @05:16PM (#11733922)
There is tons of this in SF, notably the huge number of illegally built "in-law apartments," where someone converts their garage or basement into a seperate dwelling unit without permits.
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Re:Governor Brown's housing proposal could mean sweeping Bay... by rm_-rf_slash on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @04:25PM (#11725588)
Hell if I know. Look it up and post it here if you're that interested. I have things to do.
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