San Remo Hotel v. City of San Francisco

TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:

Success is sometimes said to be the father of failure, and this and like eases are before the courts because San Francisco’s success in attracting tourists has fathered a failure in an adequate stock of housing for the low income and disadvantaged population of the City. In 1990, the City and County of San Francisco (the “City”) revised its Hotel Conversion Ordinance (“HCO”) to increase restrictions on the use of hotel rooms for tourists and to increase the expense of converting a hotel room from residential to tourist use. This revised, ordinance has triggered several…