The San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition (SFADC) has just released a series of creative advertisements focused on rights for the city’s renters. The rollout is part of the statewide Renter’s Week of Action. Buses and bus shelters across the city will feature tenant rights information in the city’s five major languages. A wide range of tenant […]
CA Renter Power Statewide Assembly 2017
September 23 & 24, 2017 • 8:00 AM- 5PM at Alameda High School, Alameda, CA California Renter Power 2017 is a statewide assembly of renters and tenant’s rights organizers fighting for housing justice! With historic fights for rent control and just cause coming from the people, we are in a movement moment. A bill to repeal […]
TENANTS ACROSS SAN FRANCISCO COME TOGETHER TO FIGHT SPECULATION AND RESIST EVICTIONS
San Francisco tenants are experiencing high rents, a subsidized, affordable, and below-market-rate housing shortage, and an eviction epidemic. A month of tenant conventions in neighborhoods across the city brought over 650 tenants together to learn about how speculation is affecting their neighborhoods as well as ways to interrupt the process and fight back. In May […]
S.F. must build teacher housing on school district property now
March 16, 2017 By Lita Blanc and Susan Solomon The housing crisis for San Francisco teachers and para-educators is bad and it’s getting worse. But that doesn’t mean that to address it we should upend years of affordable-housing policy that’s invaluable to the families we serve. That is why we are troubled by the latest […]
Keep 100-Year-Old Iris Canada in her home!
EVICTION = ELDER ABUSE: Tell Sheriff Hennessy NOT to evict our beloved elder! Yesterday, Judge Robertson ordered Sheriff Hennessy to evict Ms. Iris Canada anytime without notice. This order could cause serious harm and even death, since Iris is in fragile health. Imagine if you were 100 years old and knew the sheriff could come […]
First They Came For Our Homes… Together We Fight Back!
Art, Music, Creative Action for Housing Justice October 27th 6-7:30pm Meet at 24th BART Station, SF (be there before 6:30, the festivities will be mobile) Join the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition, Coalition on Homelessness, housed and unhoused residents, friends and neighbors in saying YES to Homes for All and NO to realtor-backed and hate-filled propositions […]
#NoOnPU! Realtor-Backed Measures Stink!
The California Association of Realtors and San Francisco Association of Realtors brought us the Ellis Act and Costa-Hawkins, legislation used to displace thousands of tenants. Now they’re trying to bring us Prop P and U, two more damaging measures for affordable housing. Vote #NoOnPU! These measures stink! For more information, visit: http://www.housingforwardsf.com/no_on_p_u
RENTER’S DAY OF ACTION – Sept 22!
On September 22nd, 2016, join San Francisco housing groups in the National Renters Day of Action to declare a Renter State of Emergency and take to the streets to demand an end to rising rents, evictions and gentrification! Now more than ever housing is unaffordable for millions of people. Rents nationwide are higher than they have been […]
Dump the Density Bonus Plan
Our Eviction Law Needs an Upgrade Now
The SF Board of Supervisors is now considering legislation that would substantially increase protections against evictions. Eviction Protections 2.0 would address and correct loopholes in the rent control ordinance that result in the evictions of hundreds of tenants each year (see our previous report on this page). The real experiences of tenants best explains […]