By Susan Cohen, KQED News Fix
On Monday afternoon, housing activists delivered two boxes of signatures on a petition to San Francisco’s Department of Elections, supporting a ballot measure that would place restrictions on the city’s burgeoning short-term rental market.
The petition, which got almost 16,000 signatures, was sponsored by ShareBetter SF, a coalition concerned with the “wholesale conversion of housing units into illegal hotel accommodations,” according to its website. It was delivered by Dale Carlson, co-founder of ShareBetter, and long-time housing activist Calvin Welch.
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