[sudo-discuss] Evictions in California

[Vicky Knox]

Oops, here's the correct AB-1513 link: <http://oaklandwiki.org/AB-1513>


2014-03-21 18:38 GMT-07:00 Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi at gmail.com>:

> Hey everyone!!! You're right, Gabriell--I totally forgot that that meeting
> was taking place! Thanks for the info. And I really like Public Oh One's
> suggestions for moving forward.
>
> I really want to encourage you all to follow in the example of the Oakland
> Privacy Working Group's and other citizen journalists' use of Oakland Wiki
> for movement-building around the Domain Awareness Center: <
> http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center>. Oakland Wiki is both a
> tool for housing information about these issues, and a strategy for
> collectively making sense of these issues and taking action. Let's not stop
> with the DAC!
>
> Public Oh One: If you want to house any of your thoughts on the wiki,
> something people are starting to do is create Community Proposals: <
> http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/communityproposal>
>
> Gabrielle and others: Like Jeremy mentioned, the article on AB-1513 <
> http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/communityproposal> needs a lot of work. So do
> the many other articles tagged with "Gentrification": <
> http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/gentrification>. I just started an article
> critical of Vator, a start-up incubator that is working with Bryan Parker
> on the "Oaktown Tech Start-Up Competition". <http://oaklandwiki.org/Vator>
> Please add to it! Another article talking about Oakland as an "Emerging
> Tech Hub" in general can be found here:<
> http://oaklandwiki.org/Emerging_Tech_Hub>
>
> The SF Wiki could use some work, too. ;] <
> http://localwiki.net/sf/Google_Bus_Protests>
>
> See you at the bookfair!
> ykciV
>
>
> 2014-03-21 17:50 GMT-07:00 GtwoG PublicOhOne <g2g-public01 at att.net>:
>
>
>> 1)  Fight fire with a bigger fire:
>>
>> Find a progressive legislator who can introduce a bill calling for:
>>
>> a)  Landlords convicted of illegal evictions or slumlording, to be
>> subjected to civil forfeiture of their properties.  Seized properties to be
>> sold to nonprofit housing-oriented groups and tenant co-ops at subsidized
>> rates.
>>
>> b)  Felony enhancement for landlords found to have made materially false
>> statements under oath or in any legal documents pertaining to their tenants
>> or cases.  This part can be bargained away as a "compromise."
>>
>> Don't just play defense, always play offense.
>>
>> 2)  Dealing with NIMBYs:
>>
>> It's useful to parse out actual NIMBYism from honest concerns such as
>> parking shortages, inadequate water mains, blocked solar access, etc.
>>
>> The most useful thing to do about parking, and excessive reliance on
>> automobiles generally, is to use strong tax incentives for telecommuting &
>> telework.  Any job that does not involve putting hands on products is a
>> potential telework job.  Any job that primarily involves using a computer
>> and/or phone is an obvious telework job.
>>
>> Conversion to teleworking will enable large numbers of workers to happily
>> give up automobiles that they only keep due to a need to commute to work.
>> This will substantially reduce parking congestion in residential areas.
>>
>> Conversion to teleworking will also reduce the need for large office
>> space by downtown businesses.  Consolidation of office space into fewer
>> buildings opens up potentially huge square footage that can be converted to
>> housing.
>>
>> Win/win/win solution all round.
>>
>> -G.
>>
>>
>> =====
>>
>>
>>
>> On 14-03-21-Fri 4:30 PM, Gabrielle Silverman wrote:
>>
>> There were two groups meeting at Sudo yesterday doing anti- eviction
>> work.
>>
>> AB- 1513 was written as a state wide anti-squatting bill, but its so
>> broad and so bad that it affects everyone. The earlier afternoon group
>> meeting yesterday was squatters from a number of different households
>> likely to be directly affected if the bill passes.
>>
>> AB- 1513 creates a means of extra judicial eviction. If it passes, a
>> property owner (or someone representing themselves as such) can declare
>> residents to be "unauthorized occupants" and get them immediately evicted.
>> No court process, no rights for the residents. This is immediate eviction
>> more or less on the honor system for the owner.
>>
>> This can apply for families in foreclosure battling banks, for tenants on
>> shaky ground fighting their landlords, for squatters, homestraders,
>> community gardens, people living in mobile homes and vehicles...
>>
>> The bill as it was originally written also had this creepy felony
>> enhancement making it "felony punishable" for residents to refuse to leave
>> after being ordered, or using violence or threats of violence during the
>> extra-judicial eviction. The felony component (almost like hate crime
>> enhancement for real estate) was stricken down and is no longer part of the
>> bill, but I mention it because this is some sick twisted shit.
>>
>> I encourage anyone interested to look up the text of AB- 1513 and give it
>> a read.
>>
>> The big update from today is that the bill is getting moved around
>> between committees so Tues is not the hard deadline we thought it was.
>>
>> We want to kill the bill at the committee level where there's fewer votes
>> that we need to shut it down and kill it dead.
>>
>> Find us at the Anarchist Bookfair Sat and find out more about how to
>> help! We'll be by a big banner raining turds, warning of the coming
>> "eviction shit storm"....
>>
>> Gabby
>>  On Mar 21, 2014 11:39 AM, "Vicky Knox" <vknoxsironi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Thanks Jeremy for the Oakland Wiki shoutout!
>>>
>>>  Yar, the people who came to Sudo last night at the Anti-Eviction
>>> Mapping Project data vis team. <https://antievictionmap.squarespace.com/>
>>> I'm in direct contact with them and will forward the OW article along. They
>>> are potentially interested in using LocalWiki (Oakland Wiki is a part of
>>> the LW network) as a tool for collective storytelling and resource-sharing.
>>> We'll be presenting to them next week. I can keep the list posted. ;]
>>>
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