There's all sorts of things going on rent control possibly expanding to single family and all units.Costa hawkins (allowing new buildings and Single family houses to be under rent control and make it universal among different cities) and these groups like California Endowment and Tenants Together CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT gets $billions from the government then pours it into Tenantstogether.orgSo they take property owners property taxes are paying this organization who wants to increase government control of private property.... thus upping their control and paying government worker salary.

I would highly recommend staying from the historic Old West End (OWE) to invest.

Blackrock and other similar fund managers are investing money on behalf of others (typically institutions like state employees retirement plans and university endowments, etc.), and they are seeking the best yield they can find. 

Institutional investors are a professional class of organizations that manage large sums of “institutional capital” (money), such as pension funds, university endowments, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, or family offices.For example, CalSTRS is a pension fund that provides retirement benefits for California’s public school teachers.

A goal of mine is to use real estate to help benefactors extend the timeline of their donations to their favorite charities by purchasing rental properties that will ultimately create a mini endowment for the charity of their choice.

Look for unrestricted endowment assets, any consistently negative cash flow and how dependent they are on tuition or use of endowment.

I think I posted a few articles on this thread about what Stanford endowment is doing and some of big tech to address work force housing.. which is all great if they can get the land and get land use approvals.to me its like going back 100 years to big industry that owned the town and all the houses..

MEC- Modified endowment contracts-  Lots of people are scared of these because they loose some of their tax advantages, and there are lots of agents that set these up wrong and screw them up.

Timber land holdings is a niche for sure.. some of the largest owners in the US are the Harvard endowment and John Hancock. at least as it relates to North west timber holdings. 

People often talk about the amazing returns produced by college endowments, some hedge funds, private equity, etc.