News and Views
September 11, 2009
Legislation that would make recycling available to millions of Californians living in apartment buildings cleared the state Senate last week.
September 11, 2009
A judge has ordered a Southern California-based company to take over operations at about 1,800 rental units in East Palo Alto until Wells Fargo Bank and the city's biggest landlord, Page Mill Properties, resolve a financial dispute.
September 10, 2009
Wells Fargo Bank said Wednesday it will head to court for third-party intervention after East Palo Alto's biggest landlord missed a sizable payment last month, throwing the ownership of about 1,800 city units into question.
September 10, 2009
Executive Director of Tenants Together, Dean Preston is interviewed for this article on tenant rights in foreclosure situations.
September 10, 2009
Blogger Robert Doggett from Texas RioGrande Legal Aid claims that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are misinforming tenants in foreclosed properties about their rights under federal law.
September 9, 2009
As with it's investment with Page Mill Properties in East Palo Alto, CalPERS learns again, this time in New York, that investing in predatory equity schemes poses great financial and reputational risk.
September 9, 2009
This Examiner article claims that some tenants in San Francisco are taking advantage of a collapse in the housing market by moving into better apartments at discounted rates, or by locking in attractive rents in older, rent-controlled properties.
September 9, 2009
Palo Alto developer Page Mill Properties and CalPERS, its equity partner, may lose control of more than 1,700 apartments acquired since 2006 as part of a more than $340 million play in East Palo Alto.
September 9, 2009
Blogger/tenant lawyer Dave Crow explains what tenants should know when considering fighting an unlawful detainer eviction lawsuit
September 9, 2009
Tenants Together is featured in this National Radio Project program which looks at the impact of the "mortgage meltdown" on tenants and how communities are responding to help innocent tenants keep their homes. It includes interviews with callers to the Tenants Together foreclosure hotline and our director Dean Preston.
September 8, 2009
In this opinion piece, the writer, who is not usually prone to government regulation, nonetheless insists that rent control is necessary to save senior mobile home park residents from homelessness.
September 8, 2009
The Kern County Sheriff’s Office says it has noticed an increase in the number of fraudulent evictions in recent months. Generally this involves a landlord that does not wish to spend the money or time to follow the legal requirements of an eviction.
September 4, 2009
Page Mill Properties, which owns about 1,700 apartments in East Palo Alto's Woodland Park neighborhood, shut down its management offices and reportedly fired maintenance workers at its East Palo Alto apartment buildings this week, leaving hallways littered with garbage and fire alarms malfunctioning.
September 4, 2009
East Palo Alto's largest landlord has closed its offices in the city and pulled property management staff from its apartment complexes, leaving facilities in disrepair and tenants in some 1,700 units wondering whether to pay their rent.
September 3, 2009
It's been a tough week for predatory East Palo Alto landlord, Page Mill Properties.
September 3, 2009
Some San Diego businesses are trying to prevent an increase in fees levied on commercial development to subsidize new affordable housing. But affordable housing advocates point out that even in good economic times businesses and developers are loathe to increase fees for housing needed to serve their lower-income workers.
September 3, 2009
Another article on Page Mill's attempt to remove its rental properties in East Palo Alto from the city's "sphere of influence."
September 2, 2009
September 2, 2009
Senior editor of US News and World Report views renters insurance as "more of a necessity than a luxury."