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Daly Moves Forward with Affordable Housing Plan One week after Supervisor Jake McGoldrick proposed an economically regressive inclusionary housing reform, Supervisor Chris Daly has offered a more fruitful plan. While McGoldrick sought to amend the city’s weak inclusionary housing law by reducing the size of buildings covered from ten to five, Daly has more logically moved to raise the number of affordable units required for all market-rate projects. We will soon learn whether the Board makes the big developers pay their fare share, or inst...
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 3:34pm PDT
Judge Rules Against City in "Musical Rooms" Case In a controversial decision that could increase homelessness in San Francisco, the Superior Court recently ruled that the City cannot stop hotel owners from requiring tenants to check in and out every 28 days. In Mosser vs. City of San Francisco, the City Attorney’s office sought to prevent landlord Neveo Mosser from practicing ‘musical rooms.’ The practice forces tenants out of their units before they’ve lived in them 28 days - the amount of time legally required to establish tenant’s rights...
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 3:27pm PDT
Who Will Take Out the Garbage: A Report from New Orleans Still, roofs are off, houses are molding away from the inside, and the
streets are piled with garbage that, six weeks after the hurricane, has not
been picked up....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 12:57pm PDT
Homeless Still Frustrated Homeless people throughout the nation are still frustrated about how Katrina evacuees
were able to get services...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 4:53pm PDT
Tax panel seeks cap on break for homeowners The president's panel on tax reform is pushing for a cap on the mortgage interest tax deduction, long considered one of the country's untouchable tax breaks....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 2:15pm PDT
New Orleans--Some sunshine after the floods Racism is like the black mold eating away at the long-submerged houses....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 11:45am PDT
Legislation in Pipeline to Increase Condo Conversion Oversight Supervisor Chris Daly has introduced legislation that would reduce evictions for the purpose of condo conversions by increasing city oversight of the application process. Currently, the Planning Commission only holds hearings on conversion applications for buildings with 5 or 6 units. The upcoming legislation, however, would force hearings to be held on 2, 3 and 4-unit buildings as well. During these hearings, the Commission would have to prove the application passes the standard of Subdivisi...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 7:16am PDT
Pakistan Will Never Forget This Horror: Things are Bad and Getting Worse October 11, 2005 -- Tariq Ali in Lahore...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 7:03am PDT
New Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again! They are doing it again! My wife and I spent five days and four nights in a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We saw people floating dead in the water. We watched people die waiting for evacuation to places with food, water, and electricity. We were rescued by boat and waited for an open pickup truck to take us and dozens of others on a rainy drive to the underpass where thousands of others waited for a bus ride to who knows where. You saw the people left behind. The poor, the ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 6:55am PDT
Solidarity Not Charity Grassroots Relief Efforts Fill in the Gaps in New Orleans...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 10:57pm PDT
Measure EE/Just Cause Evictions Protection Hearing Delayed The October 12 Hearing for Measure EE has been delayed until October 26th at 2pm....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 3:45pm PDT
Anger grows over quake response The Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, today pledged another £63m in earthquake relief funds as anger grew over the pace of the response to the south Asia disaster....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 7:51am PDT
10/16: Poor People's March and Low-Wage Workers Community Congress At 11:30 a.m. on October 16, the Poor People's March will assemble at 16th Street and Mission Street in San Francisco....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 10:59pm PDT
Devastating quake kills 20,000 in Pakistan and India A major earthquake on Saturday morning measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale has devastated cities, towns and villages across northern Pakistan. The official death toll in Pakistan reached 19,369 yesterday with over 42,000 people injured, but casualties are expected to climb further as rescue workers reach outlying areas. Hundreds more were killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The worst affected in both countries were the poor who lived in cheap housing built of mud brick and wood....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 7:31am PDT
"The People are Boiling with Rage" Hurricane Katrina had blown the problems in GW Bush's face that he wanted to be rid of with churches and caritas: class, race and poverty. On the view of many Bush critics, the chaotic emergency relief was also a consequence of a policy of state dismantling and deregulation....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 6:19am PDT
Pakistan quake toll hits 30,000 The estimated toll of the South Asian earthquake on Saturday has hit 30,000, Pakistan-administered Kashmir's works and communication minister says....
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2005 1:02am PDT
hurricane stan Dear folks-
Hurricane Stan has completely devastated southern mexico and Central America. The gross similarities between Stan and Katrina are obvious: poor people experiencing the tragic effects and government incompetence only endangering the people more.
I have many friends missing and in danger there. To my people out there: You're in my thoughts and prayers! I couldn't find much information in English, so I investigated the Mexican daily La Jornada to get the low down. I wrote this ...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 7:23pm PDT
Will President Bush Help Homeless? Ending homelessness was a priority of President Bush. Is the Bush administration still willing to help?...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 2:44pm PDT
URGENT Relief Needed for Native American Communities of LA CALL FOR URGENT RELIEF ACTION
Hurricane Relief Needed in Native American Communities of Southern Louisiana...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 11:12am PDT
Restrictive bankruptcy bill to remain in place for Hurricane Katrina victims The Bush administration made clear this week that it will not revoke or delay a law that will make it harder for tens of thousands of working-class Americans to file for bankruptcy. With the support of the White House, Republican congressmen rejected calls from consumer groups and some Democrats to place a moratorium on the bill’s provisions for victims of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 10:19am PDT
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