Bernie Sanders: As a child, rent control kept a roof over my head By Bernie Sanders Updated 10:13 AM EDT, Tue July 30, 2019 Editor’s Note: (Bernie Sanders is one of 10 presidential candidates taking part in a Democratic debate Tuesday, July 30, at 8 p.m. ET, on CNN. Ten others will debate on Wednesday…
DetailsVallie Brown’s big real-estate money The landlords, speculators, realtors and developers have clearly chosen a favorite in the D5 supes race. Read more here. Actual donations for 2018 shows Vallie Brown received more than 8 times the amount of donations from the real estate industry compared to Dean Preston.These documents are from the Ethics Commission.
DetailsWatch the video of the eminent economic geographer talking about housing in SF — and other American cities. By Tim Redmond – June 10, 2019 There were so many interesting moments in the presentation by eminent economic geographer Michael Storper April 30. One of the more remarkable things he said: For the richest 30 percent…
DetailsAmong Democratic candidates for president, the politics of America’s housing affordability crisis are getting complicated. Trump has barged in. Read here for the Democratic presidential candidate proposals for affordable housing. And here for Trump’s support of YIMBYs as his housing solution by removing restrictive local zoning to gut affordable and fair housing.
Detailshttps://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…
DetailsLandmark 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…
DetailsJust 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,…
DetailsState 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…
DetailsSenate 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…
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