[sudo-discuss] Evictions in California

[Jehan Tremback]

Awesome! I'm down. I've put it in my calendar.

-Jehan


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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