[sudo-discuss] Evictions in California

[Sonja Trauss]

Jehan, and everybody

I 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.

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!?)

Here is the website I made: www.sfbarf.org.
Here is our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/BARentersFed

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.

I'm trying to change that!!!

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.

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)



On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Jehan Tremback
<jehan.tremback at 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 at 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.
>>
>> -Jehan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Yar <yardenack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Jeremy Entwistle
>>> <jwentwistle at 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.
>>>
>>> Wasn't there a group meeting at Sudo yesterday to organize against
>>> this? How did that go?
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