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DESCRIPTION:A press conference rally to call on local and state officials to do 
 something about the Ellis Act, featuring tenants from buildings throughout 
 the city who have received Ellis Act eviction notices for the 
 holidays.\n\n\nHappy Holidays, now get the hell out!\n\nThat’s what many 
 tenants are hearing from landlords and real-estate speculators this holiday 
 season, as they face Ellis Act evictions in the New Year. Tenants rights 
 groups report that Ellis Act evictions are on the rise in at least three 
 neighborhoods -- the Mission, the Castro, Haight, Sunset and Chinatown/ 
 North Beach.\n\nTenants facing Ellis Act evictions, many of them 
 immigrants, seniors, people with AIDS and other disabled persons, will 
 gather for a press conference/rally at 18th & Castro on December 19 at 12 
 noon, to call on the City to do something to stop their evictions and that 
 of other tenants by landlords and real-estate speculators intent on 
 flipping their properties so that they can sell their units as 
 tenancies-in-common (TICs). These tenants, who represent 10 different 
 buildings in the Mission, Castro and Chinatown/North Beach, will also ask 
 that our state representatives work to repeal the Ellis Act. \n\nTenants 
 facing evictions will gather under the Christmas tree at 18th & Castro in 
 Supervisor Scott Wiener’s district, where, since the late 90s, numerous 
 people with AIDS have been evicted for tenancies-in-common (TICs). Wiener 
 has introduced legislation to allow up to 2,000 TICs to bypass the condo 
 conversion lottery and convert into condos. Wiener’s legislation will 
 create an incentive for more landlords and speculators to flip more 
 buildings, displacing more tenants like themselves.\n\n“Imagine getting 
 an eviction notice for the holidays, talk about the Grinch that stole 
 Christmas!” said Tommi Avicolli Mecca of the Housing Rights Committee. 
 “With the real-estate market so hot in the City right now, we can only 
 expect that it’s going to get worse.”\n\nAdded Lucia Kimble of Causa 
 Justa/Just Cause, “It’s really the most vulnerable tenants and those 
 least able to relocate who end up being targeted by the Ellis Act. It’s 
 got to stop. City and state elected officials need to do something, and do 
 it now.”\n\nCosponsored by Housing Rights Committee, Causa Justa/Just 
 Cause, Chinatown Community Development Corporation, Senior Disability 
 Action, Gray Panthers, Community Not Commodity/Occupride, Occupy Housing, 
 Interesting Times Gang, SF Tenants Union and others.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/12/18/18728458.php
SUMMARY:Happy Holidays, now get the hell out!
LOCATION:18th & Castro
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/12/18/18728458.php
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