Evictions to skyrocket: Crucial hearing 1/28 @City Hall
January 24, 2013 4:00pm
The new wave of evictions already decimating San Francisco will swell massively if legislation to be heard this Monday, January 28, goes forward unchallenged. Come out to the rally & press conference conference/rally sponsored by tenant, community, and senior groups and let the Supervisors know: Don't Sell Us Out!
The new wave of evictions already decimating San Francisco will swell massively if legislation to be heard this Monday, January 28, goes forward unchallenged. Come out to the rally & press conference conference/rally sponsored by tenant, community, and senior groups and let the Supervisors know: Don’t Sell Us Out!
Noon: Rally/Press conference on the steps of City Hall, Polk St. side
1:00 p.m. Come testify at the hearing, Rm. 263, City Hall., especially if you are being evicted or have been. If being evicted would leave you homeless or force you out of San Francisco, be sure to let the Supervisors know.
Ted Gullickson of the SF Tenants Union and Becca Gourevitch of the SFTU and Occupy Housing join Pirate Jenny to discuss what this legislation will do to tenants.
What tenants need to know:
Supervisors Scott Weiner and Mark Farrell have introduced a bill that would allow the 2,000 TICs [tenancies in common, smaller buildings w/multiple owners] now in the condo lottery to bypass the usual limit of 200 conversions/year. Instead, Weiner will let them all instantly condo-convert for a fee of a few thousand dollars--instantly increasing the worth of each unit worth by 20%-40%: $150,000-$300,00 more. This is the profit motive driving many fabricated or illegal evictions (and a big wet kiss for those Weiner/s and Farrell/s many speculator/realtor/developer donors).
Framed now as a one-time only exception 'for the sake of efficiency,' Weiner/s bill will result in an estimated 5,000+ tenant evictions--and it is clearly intended to set a precedent (after all, when does efficiency ever go out of vogue?)
If your home-turned-condo has not yet been sold, profit-focused landlords will push for evictions with buyout offers, threats, or faked causes. Once your home-turned-condo *is* sold, you are even more at risk: rent-control disappears, and you can be evicted at the landlord’s will or whim, without any just cause. See you Monday!
For an excellent brief summary, check out Tommi Avicolli’s concise editorial:
http://www.sfbg.com/topic/news/opinion
PLAYLIST
That/s Progress--Jello Biafra
Evicted--David Mansfield
Goodbye to Oakland--Dear Landlord
Poem For The Native--Johnette Napolitano
Evicted--Cameron Miller
Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed--Show of Hands
Cashout--Fugazi
The Lord Giveth (and the Landlord Taketh Away)--Scott Cook
The new wave of evictions already decimating San Francisco will swell massively if legislation to be heard this Monday, January 28, goes forward unchallenged. Come out to the rally & press conference conference/rally sponsored by tenant, community, and senior groups and let the Supervisors know: Don’t Sell Us Out!
Noon: Rally/Press conference on the steps of City Hall, Polk St. side
1:00 p.m. Come testify at the hearing, Rm. 263, City Hall., especially if you are being evicted or have been. If being evicted would leave you homeless or force you out of San Francisco, be sure to let the Supervisors know.
Ted Gullickson of the SF Tenants Union and Becca Gourevitch of the SFTU and Occupy Housing join Pirate Jenny to discuss what this legislation will do to tenants.
What tenants need to know:
Supervisors Scott Weiner and Mark Farrell have introduced a bill that would allow the 2,000 TICs [tenancies in common, smaller buildings w/multiple owners] now in the condo lottery to bypass the usual limit of 200 conversions/year. Instead, Weiner will let them all instantly condo-convert for a fee of a few thousand dollars--instantly increasing the worth of each unit worth by 20%-40%: $150,000-$300,00 more. This is the profit motive driving many fabricated or illegal evictions (and a big wet kiss for those Weiner/s and Farrell/s many speculator/realtor/developer donors).
Framed now as a one-time only exception 'for the sake of efficiency,' Weiner/s bill will result in an estimated 5,000+ tenant evictions--and it is clearly intended to set a precedent (after all, when does efficiency ever go out of vogue?)
If your home-turned-condo has not yet been sold, profit-focused landlords will push for evictions with buyout offers, threats, or faked causes. Once your home-turned-condo *is* sold, you are even more at risk: rent-control disappears, and you can be evicted at the landlord’s will or whim, without any just cause. See you Monday!
For an excellent brief summary, check out Tommi Avicolli’s concise editorial:
http://www.sfbg.com/topic/news/opinion
PLAYLIST
That/s Progress--Jello Biafra
Evicted--David Mansfield
Goodbye to Oakland--Dear Landlord
Poem For The Native--Johnette Napolitano
Evicted--Cameron Miller
Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed--Show of Hands
Cashout--Fugazi
The Lord Giveth (and the Landlord Taketh Away)--Scott Cook
