MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS RELATED TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, March 13, 2020 Contact: Mayor’s Office of Communications, 415-554-6131 *** PRESS RELEASE *** MAYOR LONDON BREED ANNOUNCES MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS RELATED TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC Order will go into effect immediately to prevent evictions of any resident who suffers a loss of income related to…
Progressives win three judges, Democratic County Central Committee Mary Jung, the former party chair and real-estate lobbyist, loses her seat on the Democratic party’s policy-making board. Two public defenders and a tenant lawyer, Cary Gold for whom we campaigned, will join the bench. https://48hills.org/2020/03/final-final-results-progressives-win-three-judges-dccc
Election results show strong night for local progressives Huge numbers of votes still to count, but trends are favoring the local left. It’s a good night for progressives in San Francisco. With the final Election-Day results in, we can say that two public defenders and a tenant lawyer look to be headed for the Superior…
Endorsements for March 2020 Election President Bernie Sanders California State Senator Jackie Fielder San Francisco Judge Carolyn Gold Maria Evangelista Michelle Tong San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) Assembly District 17 John Avalos Gloria Berry David Campos Christopher Christensen Peter Gallotta Matt Haney Anabell Ibáñez Jane Kim Honey Mahogany Hillary Ronen Shanell Williams Assembly…
Senate Bill 50, Which Would Have Overridden Local Development Control, Fails Thanks to tenants, tenants rights, housing justice organizations and our allies, we won. The vote was against SB 50 today. Here is a good explanation of why 46 tenant and housing justice groups signed up to oppose SB 50.
Scott Wiener Takes More Real Estate Money Than Any Other Politician In The California Legislature https://knock-la.com/scott-wiener-takes-more-real-estate-money-than-any-other-politician-in-the-california-legislature-713bd9556efc A group of unhoused mothers from Moms 4 Housing disrupt a press conference for Scott Wiener’s proposed bill, SB 50. (Photo by the Housing Rights Committee of SF) The numbers have been crunched: State Senator Scott Wiener received…
California Just Cause and Rent Control Starts January 1, 2020 Effective January 1, 2020, residential units in San Francisco that are not covered by the San Francisco Rent Ordinance have California rent control and just cause is required for eviction unless the unit is exempt. For the units covered only under California rent control, annual…
SF Just Cause Eviction for Post-1979 Construction Effective January 19, 2020 The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, now has a progressive majority that can override moderate vetoes from some of the Supervisors and the Mayor, have approved the law requiring units that were formerly exempt from the San Francisco Rent Ordinance due to construction after…
Breed refuses to sign housing bill Mayor London Breed has refused to sign legislation raising the fee office developers have to pay for affordable housing. Although the bill, which passed unanimously with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, will take effect anyway without her signature, her refusal to sign on – and her letter to…
The candidate the San Francisco Tenants Union campaigned for and who now makes the Board of Supervisors have a possible progressive override of Mayor Breed’s vetoes finally has won. Dean Preston squeezed out 187 more votes in the Nov. 5 election than the incumbent — a margin so small that Brown’s campaign considered calling for…