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CAA is pressuring Santa Rosa to oppose rent control & Section 8 protections
On Tuesday, September 15, at 3:00pm the Santa Rosa City Council will be taking up the issue of proposing rent control and protection of Section 8 vouchers against landlords who discriminate against Section 8 voucher holders (Housing Choice Voucher Holders)!
CAA is pressuring Santa Rosa to oppose rent control & Section 8 protections
By Lynda Carson - September 15, 2015
Santa Rosa - On Tuesday, September 15, at 3:00pm the Santa Rosa City Council will be taking up the issue of proposing rent control and protection of Section 8 vouchers against landlords who discriminate against Section 8 voucher holders (Housing Choice Voucher Holders).
Citizens including the working class, and school teachers, construction workers, store clerks, city workers, union members, veterans, the elderly, disabled, tenant activists, and families with children are urging the City Council to pass a rent control ordinance that includes protection for Section 8 voucher holders from discrimination.
In opposition, the 13,000 member California Apartment Association (CAA) is pressuring Santa Rosa officials to oppose much needed renter protections, including rent control, and Section 8 voucher protections. The renter protections are needed to protect working class and low-income families, including disabled and elderly family members from displacement from their communities.
The CAA is meddling in the affairs of Santa Rosa, and is against renter protections everywhere in the state of California, including Santa Rosa.
Click on link below to see how the California Apartment Association (CAA) is meddling in the affairs of Santa Rosa in the effort to protect escalating high rents that are displacing people from their communities, landlords who discriminate against Section 8 voucher holders, and the CAA’s efforts to protect the eviction-for profit-system.
http://caanet.org/call-to-action-santa-rosa-rent-control/
As was reported on September 1, in The Press Democrat. During a crowded standing-room only September 1, City Council meeting: “I’m hearing every day about families losing their homes because of skyrocketing rents,” said Councilwoman Julie Combs, one of the council’s staunchest advocates for rent control. “And I think I have a responsibility to do all I can to help working families in our community stay in their homes.”
In addition to opposing rent control, the CAA is also opposing legislation being proposed in Santa Rosa to stop landlords from discriminating against Section 8 voucher holders (Housing Choice Voucher Holders). Presently, many landlords discriminate against Section 8 voucher holders by refusing to rent to them, just because they have a Section 8 voucher that is subsidized by the government. This is unfair to the many low-income families with children, disabled and elderly members, using Section 8 vouchers to subsidize their housing needs.
The Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8 program) assists around 2.1 million households in the United States with their rents and utilities, and is run by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). According to HUD’s records, Santa Rosa has 1,849 units in their Section 8 inventory, and Alameda has 1,845 units in their Section 8 inventory. San Francisco has 8,972. Berkeley has 1,935. Oakland has 13,380. Richmond has 1,750. Contra Costa County has 6,381. Alameda County has 6,282, and Marin County has 2,145.
Low-income families in the Section 8 voucher program pay 30 to 40 percent of their income in rent each month, and the rest of the rent is paid to the landlord by the federal program. President Richard Nixon, allowed for the creation of the Section 8 voucher program while he was in office, to assist low-income renters in the private housing market.
According to a San Diego company named CoStar that tracks rental properties with five units or more during the second quarter of 2015, the average cost of a rental unit in Santa Rosa is $1,359, a 9.2 percent increase during the past year.
In opposition to the CAA, a petition supporting rent control in Santa Rosa currently has 2,828 signatures (supporters).
Click on link below for petion supporting rent control in Santa Rosa.
https://www.change.org/p/santa-rosa-city-council-enact-rent-control-for-the-city-of-santa-rosa
In addition to signing the petition, supporters of rent control, and ending Section 8 voucher discrimination in Santa Rosa can send a letter of support to the City Council.
As an example of a letter that can be sent by email to the Santa Rosa City Council by 3:00pm on Tuesday September 15, that you may add your own comment to, see below.
Dear Mayor Sawyer and City Council Members:
Please pass rent control protections and legislation making it illegal
to discriminate against Section 8 vouchers (Housing Choice Vouchers),
as a way to end the eviction-for profit-system in Santa Rosa that is targeting the
working class, including school teachers, construction workers, store clerks, city
workers, union workers, veterans, the elderly, disabled, and families
with children.
I encourage you to work with tenant advocates, the working class,
including school teachers, construction workers, store clerks, city
workers, union members, veterans, the elderly, disabled, and families
with children being targeted by the California Apartment Association
(CAA), and high rents and their eviction-for profit-system.
Please do not collaborate with the CAA and it’s wealthy members
involved in the escalation of high rents, and the eviction-for profit-system,
an inhumane system.
Rent control and Section 8 voucher protections help to keep the
working class, including school teachers, construction workers, store
clerks, city workers, union members, veterans, the elderly, disabled,
and families with children being targeted by the California Apartment
Association (CAA), safely in their communities as long as they pay
their rent, and are not in breach of their contracts, or just cause
eviction protections.
Please pass rent control and Section 8 voucher protections on September
15, as a solution that works to protect households in Santa Rosa. This is the only way
to keep our communities safe from the CAA, and greedy landlords that
jeopardizes neighborhood safety and our communities, with the escalating high rents
and eviction-for profit-system.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
(YOUR NAME)
You may contact the Santa Rosa City Council through the contact information below.
John Sawyer, Mayor: 707-578-6006, jsawyer [at] srcity.org
Chris Coursey, Vice Mayor: 707-527-6588, ccoursey [at] srcity.org
Erin Carlstrom, Council member: 707-321-0278, ecarlstrom [at] srcity.org
Julie Combs, Council member: 707-542-1906, jcombs [at] srcity.org
Ernesto Olivares, Council member: 707-975-0023, eolivares [at] srcity.org
Tom Schwedhelm, Council member: 707-326-4495, tschwedhelm [at] srcity.org
Gary Wysocky, Council member: 707-575-3820, gwysocky [at] srcity.org
See a few more links below…
Lynda Carson may be reached at tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com
Published on Indy Bay News Wire…
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/14/18777628.php
Richmond progressives respond to CAA petition blocking renter protections
by Lynda Carson ( tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com )
Monday Sep 14th, 2015 6:08 PM
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>>>>>>
A peak at CAA the nonprofit that stole Richmond’s renters protections
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/07/18777219.php
Click below for more on Renter protections in Richmond
http://tinyurl.com/p52llcr
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
By Lynda Carson - September 15, 2015
Santa Rosa - On Tuesday, September 15, at 3:00pm the Santa Rosa City Council will be taking up the issue of proposing rent control and protection of Section 8 vouchers against landlords who discriminate against Section 8 voucher holders (Housing Choice Voucher Holders).
Citizens including the working class, and school teachers, construction workers, store clerks, city workers, union members, veterans, the elderly, disabled, tenant activists, and families with children are urging the City Council to pass a rent control ordinance that includes protection for Section 8 voucher holders from discrimination.
In opposition, the 13,000 member California Apartment Association (CAA) is pressuring Santa Rosa officials to oppose much needed renter protections, including rent control, and Section 8 voucher protections. The renter protections are needed to protect working class and low-income families, including disabled and elderly family members from displacement from their communities.
The CAA is meddling in the affairs of Santa Rosa, and is against renter protections everywhere in the state of California, including Santa Rosa.
Click on link below to see how the California Apartment Association (CAA) is meddling in the affairs of Santa Rosa in the effort to protect escalating high rents that are displacing people from their communities, landlords who discriminate against Section 8 voucher holders, and the CAA’s efforts to protect the eviction-for profit-system.
http://caanet.org/call-to-action-santa-rosa-rent-control/
As was reported on September 1, in The Press Democrat. During a crowded standing-room only September 1, City Council meeting: “I’m hearing every day about families losing their homes because of skyrocketing rents,” said Councilwoman Julie Combs, one of the council’s staunchest advocates for rent control. “And I think I have a responsibility to do all I can to help working families in our community stay in their homes.”
In addition to opposing rent control, the CAA is also opposing legislation being proposed in Santa Rosa to stop landlords from discriminating against Section 8 voucher holders (Housing Choice Voucher Holders). Presently, many landlords discriminate against Section 8 voucher holders by refusing to rent to them, just because they have a Section 8 voucher that is subsidized by the government. This is unfair to the many low-income families with children, disabled and elderly members, using Section 8 vouchers to subsidize their housing needs.
The Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8 program) assists around 2.1 million households in the United States with their rents and utilities, and is run by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). According to HUD’s records, Santa Rosa has 1,849 units in their Section 8 inventory, and Alameda has 1,845 units in their Section 8 inventory. San Francisco has 8,972. Berkeley has 1,935. Oakland has 13,380. Richmond has 1,750. Contra Costa County has 6,381. Alameda County has 6,282, and Marin County has 2,145.
Low-income families in the Section 8 voucher program pay 30 to 40 percent of their income in rent each month, and the rest of the rent is paid to the landlord by the federal program. President Richard Nixon, allowed for the creation of the Section 8 voucher program while he was in office, to assist low-income renters in the private housing market.
According to a San Diego company named CoStar that tracks rental properties with five units or more during the second quarter of 2015, the average cost of a rental unit in Santa Rosa is $1,359, a 9.2 percent increase during the past year.
In opposition to the CAA, a petition supporting rent control in Santa Rosa currently has 2,828 signatures (supporters).
Click on link below for petion supporting rent control in Santa Rosa.
https://www.change.org/p/santa-rosa-city-council-enact-rent-control-for-the-city-of-santa-rosa
In addition to signing the petition, supporters of rent control, and ending Section 8 voucher discrimination in Santa Rosa can send a letter of support to the City Council.
As an example of a letter that can be sent by email to the Santa Rosa City Council by 3:00pm on Tuesday September 15, that you may add your own comment to, see below.
Dear Mayor Sawyer and City Council Members:
Please pass rent control protections and legislation making it illegal
to discriminate against Section 8 vouchers (Housing Choice Vouchers),
as a way to end the eviction-for profit-system in Santa Rosa that is targeting the
working class, including school teachers, construction workers, store clerks, city
workers, union workers, veterans, the elderly, disabled, and families
with children.
I encourage you to work with tenant advocates, the working class,
including school teachers, construction workers, store clerks, city
workers, union members, veterans, the elderly, disabled, and families
with children being targeted by the California Apartment Association
(CAA), and high rents and their eviction-for profit-system.
Please do not collaborate with the CAA and it’s wealthy members
involved in the escalation of high rents, and the eviction-for profit-system,
an inhumane system.
Rent control and Section 8 voucher protections help to keep the
working class, including school teachers, construction workers, store
clerks, city workers, union members, veterans, the elderly, disabled,
and families with children being targeted by the California Apartment
Association (CAA), safely in their communities as long as they pay
their rent, and are not in breach of their contracts, or just cause
eviction protections.
Please pass rent control and Section 8 voucher protections on September
15, as a solution that works to protect households in Santa Rosa. This is the only way
to keep our communities safe from the CAA, and greedy landlords that
jeopardizes neighborhood safety and our communities, with the escalating high rents
and eviction-for profit-system.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
(YOUR NAME)
You may contact the Santa Rosa City Council through the contact information below.
John Sawyer, Mayor: 707-578-6006, jsawyer [at] srcity.org
Chris Coursey, Vice Mayor: 707-527-6588, ccoursey [at] srcity.org
Erin Carlstrom, Council member: 707-321-0278, ecarlstrom [at] srcity.org
Julie Combs, Council member: 707-542-1906, jcombs [at] srcity.org
Ernesto Olivares, Council member: 707-975-0023, eolivares [at] srcity.org
Tom Schwedhelm, Council member: 707-326-4495, tschwedhelm [at] srcity.org
Gary Wysocky, Council member: 707-575-3820, gwysocky [at] srcity.org
See a few more links below…
Lynda Carson may be reached at tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com
Published on Indy Bay News Wire…
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/14/18777628.php
Richmond progressives respond to CAA petition blocking renter protections
by Lynda Carson ( tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com )
Monday Sep 14th, 2015 6:08 PM
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
A peak at CAA the nonprofit that stole Richmond’s renters protections
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/07/18777219.php
Click below for more on Renter protections in Richmond
http://tinyurl.com/p52llcr
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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