[sudo-discuss] Evictions in California

[Sonja Trauss]

April 3rd - planning hearing on whether two 6 -unit buildings owners
should be allowed to convert the building into condos - and therefore evict
the tenants.

The planning commission is made of humans, who are highly affected by
people in the room yelling at them. This is 12 units worth of peoples lives
that will be very affected by the outcome of this hearing.

If you want to help them, and can take the afternoon off, go to the hearing
and help them.

On Friday, March 21, 2014, Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone!!! You're right, Gabriell--I totally forgot that that meeting
> was taking place! Thanks for the info. And I really like Public Oh One's
> suggestions for moving forward.
>
> I really want to encourage you all to follow in the example of the Oakland
> Privacy Working Group's and other citizen journalists' use of Oakland Wiki
> for movement-building around the Domain Awareness Center: <
> http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center>. Oakland Wiki is both a
> tool for housing information about these issues, and a strategy for
> collectively making sense of these issues and taking action. Let's not stop
> with the DAC!
>
> Public Oh One: If you want to house any of your thoughts on the wiki,
> something people are starting to do is create Community Proposals: <
> http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/communityproposal>
>
> Gabrielle and others: Like Jeremy mentioned, the article on AB-1513 <
> http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/communityproposal> needs a lot of work. So do
> the many other articles tagged with "Gentrification": <
> http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/gentrification>. I just started an article
> critical of Vator, a start-up incubator that is working with Bryan Parker
> on the "Oaktown Tech Start-Up Competition". <http://oaklandwiki.org/Vator>
> Please add to it! Another article talking about Oakland as an "Emerging
> Tech Hub" in general can be found here:<
> http://oaklandwiki.org/Emerging_Tech_Hub>
>
> The SF Wiki could use some work, too. ;] <
> http://localwiki.net/sf/Google_Bus_Protests>
>
> See you at the bookfair!
> ykciV
>
>
> 2014-03-21 17:50 GMT-07:00 GtwoG PublicOhOne <g2g-public01 at att.net<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','g2g-public01 at att.net');>
> >:
>
>
> 1)  Fight fire with a bigger fire:
>
> Find a progressive legislator who can introduce a bill calling for:
>
> 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.
>
> 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."
>
> Don't just play defense, always play offense.
>
> 2)  Dealing with NIMBYs:
>
> It's useful to parse out actual NIMBYism from honest concerns such as
> parking shortages, inadequate water mains, blocked solar access, etc.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Win/win/win solution all round.
>
> -G.
>
>
> =====
>
>
>
> On 14-03-21-Fri 4:30 PM, Gabrielle Silverman wrote:
>
> There were two groups meeting at Sudo yesterday doing anti- eviction work.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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...
>
> 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.
>
> I encourage anyone interested to look up the text of AB- 1513 and give it
> a read.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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"....
>
> Gabby
>  On Mar 21, 2014 11:39 AM, "Vicky Knox" <vknoxsironi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Thanks Jeremy for the Oakland Wiki shoutout!
>
>  Yar, the people who came to Sudo last night at the Anti-Eviction Mapping
> Project data vis team. <https://antievictionmap.<https://antievictionmap.squarespace.com/>
>
>
>
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