To Assembly Member Matt Haney, San Francisco’s insistence on giving anybody the right to make a fuss at any stage of the housing construction proces is like that old-fashioned wedding tradition in which the minister asks guests if there are any objection.

The governor signed Assembly Bill 12 by Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco). According to Haney, the measure would stop the practice among certain landlords to charge two or even three times the monthly rent as a security deposit."