Cities Lack Housing for Amazon’s Workers

Posted August 7, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Amazon Will Worsen Urban Affordability Crisis As cities offer secret bounties to become Amazon’s second headquarters, the aggressive recruitment raises a question that all high housing cost cities involved should be asking: Where will Amazon’s new employees live? None of
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SF Judge Who Tried to Kill Rent Control Faces Election Challenge

Posted February 22, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Karnow is a Menace to Tenants In 2011, San Francisco Judge Curtis Karnow issued what many believe is one of the most anti-tenant rulings ever handed down in the city. The ruling evicted 75-year old Ernesto Hernandez from his North
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National, CA, Bay Area Election Predictions

Posted November 8, 2016 by Randy Shaw

It’s almost over. The seemingly endless 2016 presidential race comes to an end on November 8, and not a second too soon. Here are my predictions for key national, state, and Bay Area races (see companion article for SF predictions).
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Peskin’s Rent Control Expansion: Will it Work?

Posted February 1, 2016 by Randy Shaw

After winning election pledging to address San Francisco’s affordable housing crisis, Supervisor Aaron Peskin is now promoting a novel strategy: expanding rent control to newly constructed buildings. While state law bars rent control on post-1979 buildings, Peskin correctly believes that
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The New Rent Control Wars

Posted November 9, 2015 by Randy Shaw

On November 4, a near riot broke out in the usually quiet city of Alameda, California The reason? A battle over rent control. Rising rents and evictions are causing tenant displacement and activists hoped that the November 4 City Council
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Richmond Passes Rent Control

Posted July 22, 2015 by Tenants Together

By a 4-1 vote, the City of Richmond passed a rent control law Tuesday night, prompting celebration among the broad coalition of tenants, labor allies, homeowners, and progressive community groups that packed the hearing chambers all night. Landlords turned out
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Richmond Mayor Tom Butt Backs Unlimited Rent Increases

Posted May 12, 2015 by Dean Preston & Dan Harper

Mayor Tom Butt of Richmond is on a mission to make sure landlords can jack up rents in unlimited amounts on Richmond’s tenants. Butt acknowledges that Richmond rents are on the rise, but offers no meaningful solution to alleviate the
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Richmond Mayor Butt is Wrong on Rent Control

Posted April 27, 2015 by Mike Parker

Richmond Mayor Tom Butt has set himself up to be the spokesman for landlords in a campaign against rent control in Richmond. The jump in Richmond rents the past few years, reflecting trends in the Bay Area, has produced new
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