News and Views
JD Journal covers Tenants Together's call for California renters to contest foreclosure evictions on the basis that many post-foreclosure eviction notices are invalid under California law.
February 19, 2010
Santa Clarita officials say decision on a mobile home park’s proposed increase might come next week. Residents say the park owners' proposed increase is unreasonable and extremely steep.
February 19, 2010
A group of Chinese senior tenants and their allies held a lively picket last night in front of a San Francisco restaurant owned by the landlords trying to evict the seniors.
February 18, 2010
February 18, 2010
New research is showing that eviction is a particular burden on low-income black women, often single mothers, who have an easier time renting apartments than their male counterparts, but are vulnerable to losing them because their wages or public benefits have not kept up with the cost of housing.
February 17, 2010
In response to TT's February 2, 2010, letter to Fannie Mae, calling it out for contracting with real estate agents that harass and mislead tenants living in its foreclosed properties, Fannie Mae has taken a big step in the right direction.
February 17, 2010
Tenants in Stanislaus County become innocent victims of the foreclosure crisis.
February 15, 2010
the Berkeley City Council voted to approve a nexus study to examine affordable housing policies in light of the Palmer/Sixth Street Properties v. City of Los Angeles decision that essentially wiped out local inclusionary housing requirements which had been imposed by cities like Berkeley and Los Angeles. Condo developers will still have to provide affordable units.
February 13, 2010
A Visilia space-rent ordinance expires in May and a new ordinance is being drafted by the city council. Mobile-home residents claim that owners of Visalia's 10 mobile-home residential parks routinely gouge new residents while relentlessly pushing up rents on helpless long-term residents on fixed incomes who have no other cost-effective housing option.
February 12, 2010
Once completed, the 105-unit Valley Vista complex at 20801 San Ramon Valley Blvd. will be available to rent to low-income seniors 62 and older. Subsidies will prevent renters from spending more than a third of their incomes on rent and utilities.
February 11, 2010
Tenants Together Executive Director, Dean Preston has published an article in the latest issue of
February 11, 2010
Angry tenants in a NYC building that has gone into foreclosure have lodged 65 complaints with the Housing Preservation and Development Department since last February.
February 11, 2010
A bill that would bring a halt to the eviction of tenants from foreclosed buildings got through the Minnesota State House of Representatives Housing Policy and Finance and Public Health Finance Division, Feb. 9. The moratorium bill will now proceed to the House Commerce Committee.
On Friday, February 8, just three days after Tenants Together issued a press release calling out Fannie Mae for contracting with real estate agents that aggressively and illegally push out tenants living in their foreclosed properties, Fannie Mae scrambled to save face by offering Owen Casper, the San Diego tenant and cab driver whose story was profiled, a new one year contract.
February 10, 2010
Citing a number of recent tenant evictions followed by garage applications, San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu introduced legislation that would make it more difficult to construct a garage. The legislation was adopted in a 7-2 vote Tuesday.
February 10, 2010
New York predatory equity landlord, Vantage Properties, which became a lightning rod for complaints about treatment of tenants in rent-regulated apartments, will be forced to stop harrasing tenants and will be forced to pay $1 million under settlement with the state's attorney general.
February 10, 2010
A judge in former NBA star Elgin Baylor's discrimination suit against Clippers' owner and LA megalandord, Donald Sterling, ruled that outside evidence of Sterling's alleged bias against minorities could not be brought in court. Baylor's attorneys wanted to bring up a record-setting rental housing discrimination settlement between Sterling and tenants.
February 9, 2010
Sasha Abramsky of the British newspaper, the Guardian, has published some solid reporting on how real estate brokers and agents bully tenants after foreclosure as though the Protecting Tenants in Foreclosure Act (PTFA) "didn't exist."
February 9, 2010
San Francisco Board of Supervisors President, David Chiu, has introduced legislation establishing tough restrictions on constructing new parking garages on residential buildings as a measure to prevent the loss of affordable housing.