SB 1220, the poverty pimp's affordable housing sham (tags)
Poor people and the public at large are being urged to immediately contact the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, to tell the Senators that they should not pass "SB 1220 the HOMeS Act," unless nonprofit housing organizations and nonprofit housing developers in California are banned from imposing minimum income requirements against the poor!
San Diego Council Committee Approves Wal-Mart Restrictions (tags)
The San Diego City Council’s Land Use and Housing Committee approved by a 3-1 vote at its June 23 meeting a request by its chair, Todd Gloria, to ask the city attorney’s office to develop an ordinance requiring economic impact statements for proposals by Wal-Mart and other giant retailers to develop “supercenters” — 90,000 square foot stores that devote more than 10 percent of their floor space to groceries. Even though the proposal was at a very preliminary stage, Wal-Mart mounted a major direct-mail campaign in Gloria’s district to kill it. The committee voted on party lines, but a representative of Mayor Jerry Sanders spoke against the bill and strongly hinted the Mayor would use his veto power under San Diego's new strong-mayor form of government to kill it the way he did a similar ordinance in 2007.
SF Tenants Rally Against Prop 98, Then Vote Against It (tags)
Hundreds of San Francisco tenants rallied against Prop 98 at City Hall today, then went inside to vote against it. Prop 98 is on the June 3 ballot. It would outlaw rent control statewide, and strip away other tenant protections as well.
Lies and deceit behind condo-conversion scheme (tags)
Lies and deceit have been a driving force behind the latest proposals to weaken Oakland's condo-conversion protections!
1000 HAVE-NOTS STORM ELITE HOTEL IN MONTREAL (tags)
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