San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan recently introduced two proposals aiming to protect small business owners against skyrocketing costs.
One of the proposals, Small Business Tenant Unions, would allow businesses to unionize and negotiate leases and other costs with landlords.
“Rent has always been the biggest cost, the most burdensome cost to doing business for them,” Supervisor Chan said on Friday.
The second part of the proposal, the Workers’ Opportunity to Purchase Act, is to streamline a process where owners could sell their business to their staff if they are ready to move on.