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On the waterfront -- Oak to Ninth Oaklanders decided to turn Oak to Ninth into a waterfront park, but in a backroom deal, the land was sold to a developer....
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2006 2:36pm PDT
How Mayor Gavin Newsom is using the Alice Griffith Project to foster the 49er City Mayor Gavin Newsom is using the Alice Griffith Public Housing Project to further his ploy to develop the proposed 49er City and fool the constituents or so he thinks. Dwayne Jones and other have been using second hand computers and The WiFi technology with the help of Google to cheat poor folks and deceive them. The Alice Griffith Project was protected under the South Bayshore Plan but an amendment as seen to it that vast areas including Alice Griffith can now come under the Project Plan and ...
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 5:39pm PDT
Oakland Housing Authority Blames Tenants, For Crimes Committed By Staff In the topsy turvy world of the Oakland Housing Authority, the tenants are being blamed for the crimes of the Housing Authority staff members!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 7:29pm PDT
Arcata Anti-Homeless Ordinance Is Unconstitutional "federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday that arresting homeless people for sleeping, sitting or lying on sidewalks and other public property when other shelter is not available was cruel and unusual punishment."
Arcata Municipal Code
TITLE X - PUBLIC PROPERTYCHAPTER 1 - PARKS AND GROUNDS
SEC. 10004. Overnight use prohibited. (Amended by Ord. No. 1205)...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 2:02pm PDT
DOES SAN FRANCISCO NEED ANOTHER PLAYGROUND FOR THE WEALTHY? An open meeting to think of ways to confront the gentrification of the Polk....
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 11:11am PDT
BVHP Redevelopment Plan: ‘a land grab for the rich’ Today the Finance Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will hear the people of Bayview Hunters Point tell them to vote NO on the BVHP Redevelopment Plan. The meeting begins at 1 p.m., Wednesday, April 26, in the Board Chamber, Room 250, City Hall....
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 9:12am PDT
Skyline Realty Sued for Unfair Business Practices Attorneys filed suit yesterday on behalf of more than 20 tenants of buildings owned by Skyline Realty, suing the company for consistently employing shocking, thug-like tactics to empty their units of long-term tenants. The lawsuit alleges these tactics constitute unfair business practices, and seeks both compensation for the affected tenants and a court injunction putting an end to their illegal efforts. The suit represents the latest in a series of attacks on Skyline Realty - also known as C...
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 7:04am PDT
Board Committee Votes 3-0 to Protect Tenants The Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee unanimously forwarded legislation yesterday that would provide significant new protections for tenants against evictions. Sponsored by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, the proposal would prohibit any buildings where multiple no-fault evictions or the eviction of a senior, disabled or catastrophically ill person occurred from ever entering the city’s lottery for condo conversion. The approval occurred following a spirited rally on th...
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 8:42am PDT
Jane Jacobs, Planning Hero and Critic of Redevelopment, dies at 89 Jane Jacobs, legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, died yesterday at the age of 89. As the San Francisco Board of Supervisors holds a hearing today on transforming Bayview-Hunter’s Point into a Redevelopment Area, it is worth considering what Jacobs wrote about the redevelopment process back on May 22, 1957:...
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Housing in SF 
The Board of Supervisors are trying again to make housing in SF more stable....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 1:50pm PDT
Tenants Ramp Up Battle Against Notorious Landlord Housing advocates and tenants will kick off their campaign to reform what many consider to be the worst landlord in San Francisco this weekend. Their target: Skyline Realty, also known as CitiApartments, which has become known both for housing code violations and intimidating long-time tenants into vacating their homes. Picketers will be lining up around Skyline’s Church Street office at noon this Saturday, asking that the company brass sign an agreement to stop their abusive practices. In ad...
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 7:23am PDT
Mass Evictions From Oakland's Public Housing Fraud & Scandal At Oakland's Housing Authority!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 1:22am PDT
Fifteen Minute Parking Lot "Panic" Law At Council Today (4/25) Everyone's invited to a 2:30 PM protest today (4-25) at City Hall (809 Center St.) against the Fifteen Minute Trespass law. The second and final reading will happen at the afternoon session of City Council at 3 PM (the item to reach the agenda probably sometime between 3:30 and 5 PM). Public comment can also be made, after the fact, at 7 PM during Oral Communications....
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 8:47am PDT
Televising the Revolution Film Benefit for St. Peters Housing Committee Come check out this cartoon about gentrification and raise money for an incredible tenants and immigrant rights organization. This Tuesday 8pm at El Rio!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 6:11pm PDT
Elderly and Disabled Abuse at the Hand of Mercy Housing! Mercy Housing has been sued by former tenants for the abuse of the elderly and disabled. I have tried for over 4 years to get them to stop Michael Williams, Lorna Walsh, and Igor from abusing us and they refuse to look at or listen to the proof I have. Every building in SF that Mercy operates has had at least one complaint against them to the Human Rights Commission and they still will not do anything about it nor will the HRC! I was told by Ed Ilumin that Mercy had too much Political clou...
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 6:45pm PDT
Bay View: Stop the tanks! Stop the Redevelopment Plan! What’s your rush? Tell the Supervisors to slow down
The Supervisors’ Land Use Committee is debating the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan today, Wednesday, April 19, at 1 p.m., in City Hall Room 263. The Finance Committee will take it up in a week, on Wednesday, April 26, 1 p.m., in the Board Chamber, City Hall Room 250. Be there. Tell the Supervisors to slow down. Is sacrificing a neighborhood of 34,000 people the way they want to be remembered? Email the Board of Supervisors at Board_of_Supervisors...
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:39am PDT
State Regulators Slam San Francisco Over Laguna Honda Supporters of San Francisco’s Prop D rallied on the steps of City Hall yesterday to highlight a recently released state report revealing widespread acts of violence against patients at Laguna Honda. The situation at Laguna Honda is so bad that the state is fining SF daily, and suspending new medical payments to the facility. But Health Director Mitch Katz showed up at the rally and claimed Prop D backers are misrepresenting the state report. Katz argued that Laguna Honda remains the best skil...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 9:40am PDT
California Central Valley Journey for Justice Arrives in Sacramento April 20 The California Cental Valley Journey for Justice will arrive in Sacramento on Thursday, April 20! Don't miss this event!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 11:25am PDT
Civic Center Tenants Demand Seismic Retrofit on Earthquake Anniversary As the city held a variety of ceremonies commemorating the disasters that resulted from great quake of 1906, a group of activists staged a ‘die-in’ to dramatize a looming disaster that could happen should another quake occur. Lying amidst a variety of fake bricks and other rubble, the protestors demanded the 156-unit Civic Center SRO Hotel be seismically retrofitted immediately. The was supposed to be retrofitted two months ago, but the owners – Plumbers Union Local 38 - have yet to file for ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 7:23am PDT
Bayview Redevelopment Hits Board of Supervisors Today A contentious proposal that would put more than half of the Bayview under the authority of the Redevelopment Agency will receive its first public hearing at the Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee today. Previous hearings on the proposal at both the Planning Commission and Redevelopment Agency turned into knock-down, drag-out battles between supporters and opponents, with claims that the proposal would bring jobs and housing to the community clashing with fears it...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 7:18am PDT
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