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Rent Board Rules in Favor of 1030 Post Street Tenants After a year of struggling to save their homes, the tenants at 1030 Post Street can rest easy – they are covered by rent control, and the landlord’s scheme to make their units “affordable” by raising the rent is dead. On May 21st, an Administrative Law Judge at the San Francisco Rent Board ruled that the units are covered by the Rent Ordinance, as amended last fall by the Board of Supervisors. This concludes the saga of a real estate developer who manipulated a tax-exempt program to “create” ...
Posted: Wed, May 23, 2007 6:23am PDT
Mothers and Firefighters Join Asm. Mark Leno in Calling for Ban on Toxic Fire Retardants Studies Show Toxic Fire Retardants are Passed through Breast Milk to Babies;
Firefighters are Contracting Cancer at Disproportionate Rates...
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 4:15pm PDT
Psychiatric Drug Researcher Bob Whitaker on Free Radio Sunday Former Boston Globe reporter Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America, will speak by phone on Bathrobespierre's Broadsides, FRSC's late Sunday morning talk show 10 AM - 11:30 AM, May 27th. Whitaker has done recent research on the 24-fold increase in diagnosis of youth "requiring" psychiatric medication and its devastating impact....
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 3:30pm PDT
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Supes to Hold Hearing on Public Housing “Emergency Transfers” Imagine if you and your family were victims of a violent crime but had no way to escape it. Imagine lying awake at night worried about your young children’s safety while they slept. Imagine being scared to continue living in your apartment, but still paying rent for fear of losing the only chance of a roof over your head. Imagine forcing your children to play indoors on the sunniest of days, so that they won’t be dodging bullets in the yard. If your home were this unsafe, would you choose hom...
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 8:00am PDT
Mass Firings At Berkeley Housing Authority Troubles At The Bekeley Housing Authority Result In The Proposal Of Mass Firings!...
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 1:59am PDT
Mayor Sends Out Mixed Message Regarding Berkeley Housing Authority Mayor Tom Bates Sends Mixed Message In Regards To Berkeley's Troubled Housing Authority!...
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 8:19pm PDT
Rally at City Hall to Proclaim that Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Will Not Be Tolerated San Francisco - About 100 Seniors gathered on May 15 for a midmorning rally on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall to declare that "Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Will Not Be Tolerated in San Francisco!" The Seniors carried placard signs in Vietnamese, Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Russian, and English. The rally, organized by the Institute on Aging in San Francisco, is the sixth rally held in San Francisco to publicize the issue and problem of elder and dependent adult abuse....
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 9:13am PDT
A Low-Income Bus Pass that Most Don't Use Did you know that MUNI has a low-income Fast Pass? If you didn’t, you are not alone. In 2003, the cost of a monthly Fast Pass for MUNI went up from $35 to $45 and the cost of a single ride went from $1 to $1.25. The next year the single ride went up to $1.50. In response to public outrage, the MTA developed the Lifeline Fast Pass for low-income San Franciscans — a monthly bus pass for $35....
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 9:12am PDT
Portable Toilets, a Dumpster, and 24 Hour Security 
The City of Fresno delivered three portable toilets and a dumpster to a homeless encampment on H street today. These services are expected to be a temporary solution to improve the health and sanitation in the encampment. The city plans to purchase property to set up a “free zone” where homeless people can live. The new encampment will have portable toilets, trash bins, and more....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 7:51pm PDT
Compassion & Choices: In Thought and Action May 2007 Terminally Ill Californians Call for an End to Violent Deaths...
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 4:04pm PDT
REMAINS and REBIRTH: An Evening Around Katrina - May 27, 28 
Join media activist Walidah Imarisha and Orleans-based organizer Suncere Shakur for a screening and presentation on the continuing aftermath of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and the rebuilding and rebirthing that is going on from the ground up. Two Bay Area events are planned: 5/27 in San Francisco and 5/28 in Santa Cruz; details and full tour schedule below. Watch a 7 minute version of the film here....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 8:46am PDT
The City of Fresno Votes to Install Portable Toilets for the Homeless 
The Fresno City Council passed a motion today to force the city manager’s office to place portable toilets and trash bins near a downtown homeless encampment....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 8:31pm PDT
Grassroots, Labor demand Single-Payer, Universal Healthcare in CA "Host Howard Vicini discusses the growing grassroots demand for a Single-Payer system of Universal Healthcare in California with Michael Lyon of the San Francisco Gray Panthers."...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 7:53am PDT
Activists and City Leaders Rally for the Next Generation In an October 2005 survey prepared by the Public Research Institute at San Francisco State University, nearly half of the families with preschool aged children interviewed stated their intent to move out of San Francisco within three years. The three major issues of concern were (a) lack of affordable housing, (b) concern over public safety and (c) the state of the public education system....
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 6:32am PDT
SF Requires Zoning Changes to Meet Family Needs A high-profile campaign by Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth has made San Francisco’s lack of affordable family housing a front-burner issue. The Board of Supervisors recently allocated between $10-20 million for family housing, and Coleman and other groups are pushing for 3000 affordable family units to be constructed by 2011....
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 6:29am PDT
New Board Members For Troubled Berkeley Housing Authority Mayor Tom Bates Appoints New Board Members For The Berkeley Housing Authority. Oddly, 2 Board Members Were Reappointed, After Firing Themselves From The Troubled Agency In Recent Months!...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 4:26am PDT
NICHOLS: More lies from Livermore nuclear weapons lab 
"A group of citizens of the Bay Area are seeking a lawyer to take legal action to stop the open air explosions set off by Livermore Lab in Tracy, California......
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 1:19pm PDT
Forced hospice forced for profit hospice Our relative was forced to receive for profit hospice in Monterey County, CA. She did not ask for hospice. We are opposed to forced hospice of the elderly or anyone and opposed to for profit hospice. Hospice should be voluntary and a family decision....
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 3:17pm PDT
ATTN:Berkeley Landlords Collect Rent On The Deceased In Berkeley, Landlords Have Been Charging High Rents To The Deceased!...
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 3:18am PDT
Public Housing Tenants Need Repairs, Not Promises Mayor Gavin Newsom has made repeated statements this year about his “intense commitment” to improve the city’s public housing. Recognizing that there are serious problems with crime, health and safety, and general living conditions in the over 6,000 units run by the San Francisco Housing Authority, the Mayor has announced numerous steps he intends to take towards addressing the issues....
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007 7:53am PDT
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