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Record Number of Ellis Act Evictions in May A warning to short-term real estate speculators and tenancy in-common (TIC) buyers: Your housing bubble is due to burst. So predicts Ted Gullickson of the San Francisco Tenants Union. According to Gullickson, the current boom of low interest rates coupled with the inflated real estate market is not going to last much longer. In fact, it soon will crash in the way that the stock market did in 1929. His caution comes after the San Francisco Rent Board reported for May of this year 80 Ellis Act ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 11, 2005 5:40am PDT
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
Arcata's Homeless Task Force FALLS APART!!! 
The only unhoused members of Arcata's Homeless Task Force resign in protest....
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 5:35pm 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
National Night Out 2005 Community Block Party - Oakland 
Community block parties were held nationwide this evening. It was said that 100 were held in Oakland alone. This one on 23rd Street in West Oakland was hosted by the Society of St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Charity which offers food once a day to anyone who wants or needs a free meal....
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 12:04am PDT
The California Coalition Against Poverty (audio/mpeg 4.8MB) ECR news interviews for week of August 1st: Rene from the California Coalition Against Poverty, which is a collective of workers and tenants organizing for their rights, currently picketing a slumlord and liberal lawyer in Oakland; and Jesse Reynolds from The Center for Genetics and Society in Oakland, which recently won a Best-of-the-Bay Local Heroes award....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 7:33pm 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
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
CCAP targets Oakland/Berkeley Slumlord 
The California Coalition Against Poverty conducts a direct action against Ms Ellen E.S. Rodin, an Oakland/Berkeley Slumlord....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 11:25am 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
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
Time for a Fare Strike? (video/quicktime 14.8MB) Fare strike!...
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:01am PDT
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