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PG&E Remains Obstacle to Affordable Housing San Francisco is in the midst of a housing construction boom, but leave it to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company to slow the pace. PG&E is causing construction delays across the city, and as the accompanying photo makes clear, moves at a glacial pace even when its utility poles are illegally blocking sidewalks and wheelchair ramps. Mayor Newsom can push city agencies to expedite housing, but until he comes down on PG&E the construction process will be stymied. PG&E’s behavior is confirming ...
Posted: Wed, Aug 10, 2005 6:25am PDT
Remaining Two Homeless Representatives Resign in Disgust On August 4, 2005, Arcata Ca., at the homeless task force meeting, the last two homeless representative resigned in disgust. Facilitator Reverend Tim Dotty insisted that the task force would vote “to endorse” the “Arcata Emergency Shelter and Homeless Services Plan” conceptualized by, social engineers, Dr. Jane Holschuh and Dr. Betsy Watson of the Humboldt State University's Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, without any discussion of the plan. The plan which promises to make life ...
Posted: Mon, Aug 8, 2005 9:07am PDT
Social Protection or Gibberish Social security, the heart of America's social protection system, has kept tens of millions of seniors and disabled from starvation and death for 7 decades. GWB, caught in irrationality and lust for absolute power, stylizes social security dismantling as economic reform....
Posted: Mon, Aug 8, 2005 6:54am PDT
The Real Story Behind Newsom Housing Numbers Tell A Different Story Accompanying Mayor Newsom at his Wednesday press event trumpeting his “HOME 15/5” housing goal was the President of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and the CEO of the SF Association of Realtors. How fitting. After all, by the Mayor’s own statistics, nearly 10,000 of the projected 15,000 new units will be purchased by those earning over $115,000 per year. Thousands of these new units will sell for over $1 million, and while many will serve as quasi-hotels for the international elite, the...
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 6:52am PDT
Project 20 or More Poverty The Mayor doesn't "like" Project 20 anymore, which means the people have to fight to keep it alive......
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 6:51am PDT
Tenants sue non-profit over infestations Oakland Tenants Accuse Local Non-Profit Housing Developer Of Being A Slumlord!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 3:29am PDT
Niger Faces Major Food Emergency The African country of Niger is rarely mentioned in this country. The only time we've heard it mentioned in the last few years is in relation to the Wilson/Plame/Karl Rove scandal. But today in Niger, 3.3 million people, including almost a million children, are facing starvation after a drought and locusts wiped out last year's harvest. We go to Doctors Without Borders for a report from the ground....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 7:12am PDT
Activist Damu Smith: Fighting Systemic Racial Disparities in American Healthcare Longtime activist Damu Smith is the founder of Black Voices for Peace. He has fought for war and racism for decades. Now he’s fighting for his life. He has colon cancer. We speak with Damu Smith about his struggle with cancer and for equitable healthcare in this country....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 7:10am PDT
Large Turnout for Citywide TIC Strike Activists came out in force--and numbers--Sunday as the San Francisco Tenants Union delivered an 11-site strike against realtors attempting to sell properties where tenants had been evicted to create vacancies as tenancies in common (TICs). Approximately 60 activists citywide picketed these locations, informing prospective buyers of both the legal and financial risks as well as the dubious morality of purchasing a home created by eviction....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 6:34am PDT
MUNI To SF: Pay More, Wait Longer, Keep Quiet Marc Norton 01.AUG.05
(The following opinion piece was submitted to the SF Examiner in response to an article on Muni. The Examiner did not print my piece. -MN)...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 6:33am PDT
Shut Down The TIC Open Houses July 31 TENANTS: COME JOIN THE PICKETS
BUYERS: BOYCOTT OPEN HOUSE JULY 31
If There's No Buyers, There's No Evictions!
Gather at SF Tenants Union, 12 NOON, Sunday July 31
558 Capp at 21st...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 1:12pm PDT
Oakland Tenants Declare Big Victories On July 19th, California ACORN announced victories on demands to equal language access in local government. The Tenant's United Chapter in Oakland received confirmation from the City Administrator's office that the City will be putting a multi-lingual message on the Code Enforcement answering machine for non-English speakers to leave messages and file complaints. There will be more multi-lingual operators/staff on the phones to field calls from non-English speakers Oakland ACORN also won mass...
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 6:38am PDT
Labor, Housing, Arts Advocates United in Opposition to SF Tourist Hotel Conversions More than one hundred union members and supporters sat alongside housing rights advocates in a packed Land Use Committee meeting yesterday to voice their support for legislation barring the conversion of tourist hotel rooms into luxury condominiums. The legislation, forwarded by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, comes in response to efforts by the Fairmont Hotel to sell off almost half their rooms as residences. The Committee forwarded the proposal on without objection after hearing from a variety of ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 8:00am PDT
Homeless die in Arizona heat wave In Phoenix, Arizona last week at least 21 people, 14 of whom have been identified as homeless, have died from exposure to extreme temperatures in excess of 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Centigrade). In addition, at least 13 undocumented immigrants have died trying to cross the desert region on the Arizona-Mexico border. Temperatures have exceeded 100 degrees in Phoenix for weeks on end, with 14 days in July having highs of 110 degrees or more....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 8:20am PDT
Peskin to Request City to Enter Fight Over Important Tenant’s Rights Case Supervisor Aaron Peskin will present a resolution to the Board of Supervisors today calling for the City Attorney’s office to weigh in on a controversial tenant’s rights case currently on its way to the California Supreme Court. The outcome of the case, Action Apartment Association vs. City of Santa Monica, could potentially make wrongful eviction lawsuits far more difficult, opening the door for landlords to harass, threaten, and evict tenants without providing them legal recourse. Peskin’s ...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 8:10am PDT
Bringing Technology To The Poor Local Man's Effort To Bring Technology To The Poor......
Posted: Sun, Jul 24, 2005 11:14pm PDT
Court Hands Tenants Massive Victory in TIC Battle Judge Charlene Mitchell gave San Francisco tenants a major victory today, ruling against a group of real estate speculators who tried to evict the residents of 424-434 Francisco Street. Mitchell declared that the speculator’s creation of TICs in a building of 5 or more units with the intent of evicting the tenants from their homes and then selling their units individually, without first obtaining a public report form the Department of Real Estate (DRE), constituted unfair business practices. ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 6:25am PDT
Can you legislate morality? If you believe decdes of seasoning from Brown vs. Board of Education made America more moral, then you may understand how the World Service Corps congressional proposals could do that again for America and the world....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2005 9:22pm PDT
‘Folks back home’ defend Social Security from Republicans PITTSBURGH — “Dear congressperson: What part of ‘no privatization, no private accounts to replace Social Security’ don’t you understand?”...
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:28am PDT
Hunger in California’s Central Valley: rising poverty in leading food-producing region According to a report released by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Policy Research in June, the pains of poverty are sharpening in California with hunger and food insecurity on the rise in the state. In the cruelest of ironies, the study found that some of the worst conditions in the state prevail among the poor and working poor in the Central Valley region of San Joaquin County—one of the nation’s centers of agricultural production....
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:26am PDT
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