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| How do you pay rent while in a coma?
by Ron Leshnower, Fair Housing Blog
September 30th, 2009
An attorney and blogger tells the story of a tenant in Palo Alto who paid rent late due to being in a coma and was evicted. Project Sentinel reached a settlement for the tenant including $32,000 cash and and an affordable apartment. |
| Predatory Equity
by David Jones President and CEO, Community Service Society of New York, Huffington Post
September 17th, 2009
David Jones, President and CEO of Community Service Society of New York, looks at a recent example of predatory equity in New York and how the massive fallout from this and similar schemes will be hurting tenants, taxpayers,and the general public for a long time to come. CalPERS was a major investor in this investment scheme. |
| Renting the California Dream
by Robert Cruickshank, Calitics
August 20th, 2009
In this blog post Robert Cruickshank says the single-minded emphasis on homeownership has badly distorted California's economy, land use, and politics. Bringing housing policy back into balance and providing policy support for rent can fix these distortions. |
| Every Tenant Has One
by Dave Crow, Evict This
August 12th, 2009
Blogger and tenant attorney Dave Crow continues his discussion about implied warranty of habitability and what tenants can do to get landlords to make needed repairs. |
| New Court Decision Jeopardizes Affordable Rental Housing
by Dean Preston of Tenants Together, BeyondChron
July 28th, 2009
Last week, a California Appellate court took a giant step toward eliminating affordable rental housing in communities across California. The Court ruled that a Los Angeles inclusionary housing law was preempted by the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. |
| Mobile Homes Could Lose Rent Control Protection
by Larry Gross, CityWatch
July 24th, 2009
Larry Gross of CES explains how tenants’ rights advocates were shocked when a bill that would cripple mobile-home rent control laws recently passed the Assembly due to support from a number of Los Angeles area progressive and liberal Democrats. |
| Obama Rejected Illinois Rent Control Ban
by Paul Hogarth, Beyond Chron
July 22nd, 2008
As a new Illinois Senator, Barack Obama cast one of the six "no" votes against a piece of legislation that would have prohibited local jurisdictions from passing local rent control ordinances. |
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