https://48hills.org/2019/06/wiener-quietly-turns-barber-bill-into-major-housing-legislation/ Gut-and-amend strategy puts a version of SB 50 on the legislative fast track. By Hydee Feldstein – June 18, 2019 State Sen. Scott Wiener, as predicted here, has taken an uncontroversial bill about cosmetology licenses and turned it into a complex and detailed piece of housing legislation that would undermine a long list of…
Landmark Deal Reached on Rent Protections for Tenants in N.Y. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/nyregion/rent-protection-regulation.html Newly empowered Democrats are trying to address concern over housing costs that is helping to drive the debate over inequality. By Luis Ferré-Sadurní, Jesse McKinley and Vivian Wang June 11, 2019 Newly empowered Democratic leaders in Albany announced a landmark agreement on Tuesday to…
Just Cause Eviction and Rent Control in Other California Cities The more tenants there are who are rent-controlled of have just cause eviction protection, the stronger we are. In the San Francisco Bay Area the cities of Alameda, Berkeley, Campbell, Concord, East Palo Alto, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Los Gatos, Mountain View, Oakland, Richmond, San Francisco,…
State Senate Appropriations chair Anthony Portantino announced that SB 50, the bill from Scott Wiener that could demolish affordable housing since there are no enforcement provisions for preventing the demolition, has been held for the year and will eligible again in 2020.
New study challenges Wiener’s approach to housing Eminent economic geographers say that deregulation and upzoning will make gentrification in cities like SF much worse. By Tim Redmond – May 12, 2019 Pretty much everybody who’s paying attention to the housing crisis in San Francisco – except, apparently, the Chronicle – is talking about the new…
Senate Bill 529, our right to organize bill, PASSED the Senate Judiciary Committee 6-2 April 23, 2019! We’re waiting for the hearing date, but the next committee will be Appropriations. This is going to be a pretty big hurdle, and we’ll need all the help we can get from you all to blitz the committee…
https://48hills.org/2019/04/landlord-scams/ Activists warn of a new landlord scam: Seismic upgrade evictions Hearing on Telegraph Hill building sheds light on a potential threat to thousands of SF renters. By Tim Redmond – April 21, 2019 A relatively obscure hearing at the Board of Appeals this week shed some important light on the preservation of rental housing…
Thanks to strong advocacy and organizing by tenants, as well as a great deal of concern voiced by the San Francisco Supervisors, it appears that we will now have two experienced tenants rights lawyers to represent us on the Rent Board Commission. This couldn’t be more important in San Francisco right now, given the continuing…
Vallie Brown has received more than 8 times the amount of donations from the real estate industry compared to Dean Preston. They are both running for San Francisco Supervisor District 5 in the November 2019 election. Could this be why Vallie Brown has been supporting Senate Bill 50, which we oppose because SB 50 would…
http://www.urbandisplacement.org/blog/rent-control-key-neighborhood-stabilization Post Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 Author: Miriam Zuk, Ph.D. Who ever thought rent control would be making a comeback after over 30 years? Especially in California, a state that essentially ended the ability of jurisdictions to apply strict rent controls with the passage of the Costa Hawkins Act in 1995. But lo…