News and Views
October 15, 2009
October 15, 2009
CalPERS and the pension funds of several other states made large equity investments in a predatory real estate investment deal in which potential profits were predicated on the mass displacement of tenants. Now the investment appears to be going into default.
October 15, 2009
More than two years, Monterey mobile home residents asked the city council to adopt a rent-control ordinance for mobile home parks. They are still waiting.
October 15, 2009
October 15, 2009
CalPERS poured vast public pension funds into a scheme in Manhattan to force working people out of apartements and then rent those apartments to higher income tenants.
October 14, 2009
Last night Tenants Together was one of several co-sponsors for an event hosted by the Manilatown Heritage Foundation in San Francisco.
October 14, 2009
A San Mateo construction firm has sued East Palo Alto's biggest landlord, alleging it wasn't paid for more than $50,000 in seismic work done at the rental properties. Meanwhile, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park Fire Protection District officials have become alarmed about renovations and construction work allegedly done at the properties without permits.
October 14, 2009
Dave Crow, a San Francisco lawyer who specializes in tenants' issues now has an advice column for tenants. Here he answers a question about mold and habitability.
October 13, 2009
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an injunction preventing a Los Angeles landlord from evicting 22 low-income tenants of a local apartment complex in order to raise the rent on their units.
October 13, 2009
Governor Schwarzenegger recently signed two pieces of legislation benefiting California tenants, SB 290 and SB 120.
October 12, 2009
In compliance with the state's Regional Housing Needs Assessment, the city of Hawthorne spent $4 million to buy buildings and renovate them for creation of low-income rental housing. Many other smaller cities rarely create low-income units despite the State's demands.
October 12, 2009
Gov. Schwarzenegger signed Lowenthal's SB 120 and Leno's SB 290 and vetoed Nava's AB 566.
October 12, 2009
National Public Radio covers the issue of predatory equity and the impact it's having on tenants who are innocent victims.
October 12, 2009
Only 8.2 percent of California renters have earthquake insurance.
October 12, 2009
One of San Francisco's largest landlords, CitiAparments, which is already facing a slew of lawsuits for allegedly withholding tenants’ deposits, is the subject of a new class-action lawsuit — this one related to labor laws.
The Coalition for Economic Survival scored a major tenants' rights victory when the 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled in BARRIENTOS v. 1801-1825 MORTON LLC, that Los Angeles' rent control law is not preempted by federal laws or regulations.
October 10, 2009
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeal has ruled in favor of a group of tenants in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles who were entangled in a legal battle with their complex’s owner, who wanted to raise rents and issued eviction notices to the group.
October 8, 2009
Tenants in New Haven, Connecticut assert their rights under the Protecting Tenants At Foreclosure Act to remain in their homes after foreclosure.