I don't think it's anything like 'isn't getting on', the landlord wants to convert the building to some other use and simply doesn't care about the tenants, which isn't the same as finding them disagreeable or whatever (one imagines they might want to do something like sell it as a private home).
It's being used as a rallying cry by people who were perfectly content with capitalism until it started being applied to them.
Rent is going way up because there aren't enough homes in sf for the amount of people who want to live there. The city is to blame for this problem. Why is sf such a flat city? There should be a lot more tall condo buildings but as I've read it seems the city blocks any structure over 4 stories.
Raising rent will cause lots of low income people in sf to have to move. That's not a good thing--but what is the answer here? How do other large cities deal with this problem?
Not under current SF rent control laws. The issue here is how the landlord is skirting around the law by making space unusable.
The city is basically making land owners give section 8 rent welfare to tenants, in a bid to keep the city affordable to long time residents during a housing shortage. You'd hope that the city would open up building more high rise housing (high end) to open up more space for the lower end of the community.