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1) Fight fire with a bigger fire:<br>
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Find a progressive legislator who can introduce a bill calling for:<br>
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a) Landlords convicted of illegal evictions or slumlording, to be
subjected to civil forfeiture of their properties. Seized
properties to be sold to nonprofit housing-oriented groups and
tenant co-ops at subsidized rates. <br>
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b) Felony enhancement for landlords found to have made materially
false statements under oath or in any legal documents pertaining to
their tenants or cases. This part can be bargained away as a
"compromise." <br>
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Don't just play defense, always play offense. <br>
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2) Dealing with NIMBYs: <br>
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It's useful to parse out actual NIMBYism from honest concerns such
as parking shortages, inadequate water mains, blocked solar access,
etc. <br>
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The most useful thing to do about parking, and excessive reliance on
automobiles generally, is to use strong tax incentives for
telecommuting & telework. Any job that does not involve putting
hands on products is a potential telework job. Any job that
primarily involves using a computer and/or phone is an obvious
telework job.<br>
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Conversion to teleworking will enable large numbers of workers to
happily give up automobiles that they only keep due to a need to
commute to work. This will substantially reduce parking congestion
in residential areas. <br>
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Conversion to teleworking will also reduce the need for large office
space by downtown businesses. Consolidation of office space into
fewer buildings opens up potentially huge square footage that can be
converted to housing.<br>
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Win/win/win solution all round. <br>
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-G.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14-03-21-Fri 4:30 PM, Gabrielle
Silverman wrote:<br>
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<p>There were two groups meeting at Sudo yesterday doing anti-
eviction work. </p>
<p>AB- 1513 was written as a state wide anti-squatting bill, but
its so broad and so bad that it affects everyone. The earlier
afternoon group meeting yesterday was squatters from a number of
different households likely to be directly affected if the bill
passes.</p>
<p>AB- 1513 creates a means of extra judicial eviction. If it
passes, a property owner (or someone representing themselves as
such) can declare residents to be "unauthorized occupants" and
get them immediately evicted. No court process, no rights for
the residents. This is immediate eviction more or less on the
honor system for the owner.</p>
<p>This can apply for families in foreclosure battling banks, for
tenants on shaky ground fighting their landlords, for squatters,
homestraders, community gardens, people living in mobile homes
and vehicles...</p>
<p>The bill as it was originally written also had this creepy
felony enhancement making it "felony punishable" for residents
to refuse to leave after being ordered, or using violence or
threats of violence during the extra-judicial eviction. The
felony component (almost like hate crime enhancement for real
estate) was stricken down and is no longer part of the bill, but
I mention it because this is some sick twisted shit.</p>
<p>I encourage anyone interested to look up the text of AB- 1513
and give it a read.</p>
<p>The big update from today is that the bill is getting moved
around between committees so Tues is not the hard deadline we
thought it was. </p>
<p>We want to kill the bill at the committee level where there's
fewer votes that we need to shut it down and kill it dead.</p>
<p>Find us at the Anarchist Bookfair Sat and find out more about
how to help! We'll be by a big banner raining turds, warning of
the coming "eviction shit storm"....</p>
<p>Gabby<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 21, 2014 11:39 AM, "Vicky Knox"
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<div>Thanks Jeremy for the Oakland Wiki shoutout! <br>
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Yar, the people who came to Sudo last night at the
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project data vis team. <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://antievictionmap.squarespace.com/"
target="_blank">https://antievictionmap.squarespace.com/</a>>
I'm in direct contact with them and will forward the OW
article along. They are potentially interested in using
LocalWiki (Oakland Wiki is a part of the LW network) as a
tool for collective storytelling and resource-sharing. We'll
be presenting to them next week. I can keep the list posted.
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