If you work for yourself, make a date and come with me please! If you work for someone else, take a beautiful afternoon off! (that's what I'm doing)This Thursday - March 27th - we are going to the planning commission around 1:30 in the afternoon to support 96 new units at 3rd and Mariposa in Dogpatch.I'm trying to change that!!!100 units here, 50 units there, people are trying to build in SF, and many projects are abandoned or downsized because NIMBY neighbors show up to the planning dpt opposing the new construction. The people that benefit from new construction are dispersed. We complain about the housing crunch on FB, and on message boards, but we usually don't know when and where to show up to make an effective statement.It turns out that having real live humans that want to see more housing built appear at planning commission hearings in support of specific projects is Super Helpful. I made an organization about it. SF Bay Area Renters Federation. (get it!?)Jehan, and everybodyI don't really have an opinion about the evictions/ rent control side of the story, but I do feel strongly about the difficulty of building new side of the story.
Here is the website I made: www.sfbarf.org.
Here is our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/BARentersFed
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback@gmail.com> wrote:
correction: s/due to laws like this/due to the current eviction laws/On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback@gmail.com> wrote:
Rents are sky-high in SF because it is very hard to build new housing, due to laws like this. It's sad to see the city turn into a weird hostile clusterfuck split between people paying 5k a month and $200 a month, clinging onto rent control, due to this kind of obstructionist NIMBYism. It could be a metropolis with enough housing for everyone.I say, if you don't want to live in the city and deal with the constant change that has been a part of cities since cities were invented, then you shouldn't live in the city.-JehanOn Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Yar <yardenack@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Jeremy EntwistleWasn't there a group meeting at Sudo yesterday to organize against
<jwentwistle@cryptolab.net> wrote:
> Steve Fox has written a bill (AB-1513) that would expedite and increase
> evictions in California. It's going to committee this Tuesday and it would
> be unfortunate if it progresses.
>
> You can read an overview on the OaklandWiki:
> http://oaklandwiki.org/AB-1513
>
> If anybody is interested in breaking the bill down into a very concise email
> (and add more to the wiki), it would be much appreciated to the people
> reaching out to anti-eviction groups.
this? How did that go?
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