&gt;I am. Over the past five years &quot;my&quot; apartment building has changed hands several times.<p>No, you&#x27;re not.  You&#x27;re only trapped by your own insistence on living in that particular neighborhood in SF.  I don&#x27;t see why you think because you&#x27;ve become comfortable somewhere you&#x27;re entitled to stay there forever.<p>&gt;I&#x27;m pretty sure that it&#x27;s not me that&#x27;s running up a tab.<p>Yes it is.  The value of what you&#x27;re consuming has gone up, but you&#x27;ve used the government to force your landlord to provide you a place for less than its&#x27; worth.