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Alternative Visions – Rent Price Gouging and Grass Roots Resistance – 02.26.16
Jack welcomes local community organizers, Maria Marroquin, director
of the Worker Day Center in Mt. View, California, and Gayle McLaughlin,
former mayor and now city councilperson in Richmond, California, to
explain the grass roots efforts underway in their cities today to resist
and rollback skyrocketing rent prices. With apartment rents having
risen 25%-30% the past two years, and wages either frozen or falling for
working and middle class families, more are being displaced and forced
to move out of their homes—often evicted unfairly and arbitrarily by
apartment chain property owners owned by hedge funds and other big
finance Wall St. organizations. Maria describes the efforts in progress
in her city to unite forces to resist unjust evictions and stabilize
rents by passing city ordnances giving renters some basic rights. Gayle
describes how the Richmond Progressive Alliance in her city challenged
and won majority seats on the city council and passed rent ordnances and
how the California Apartment Association—the big business lobbying arm
for multi-unit apartment owners—temporarily blocked the ordnance. Gayle
describes the organizing underway today for an even better rent ordnance
coming up this November. Jack offers suggestions how the various
fragmented efforts need to unite and ‘march on Sacramento’ to force
statewide rights for renters and stop the rent price gouging that is now
out of control, much like pharmaceutical drugs and education price
gouging.
For more information about events underway and planned
in Richmond, go to: [email protected] or
richmondprogressivealliance.net website. For events in Mt. View go to
mtviewtenantscoalition.org. Find out how successful resistance to rent
gouging is done.
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Jack welcomes local community organizers, Maria Marroquin, director
of the Worker Day Center in Mt. View, California, and Gayle McLaughlin,
former mayor and now city councilperson in Richmond, California, to
explain the grass roots efforts underway in their cities today to resist
and rollback skyrocketing rent prices. With apartment rents having
risen 25%-30% the past two years, and wages either frozen or falling for
working and middle class families, more are being displaced and forced
to move out of their homes—often evicted unfairly and arbitrarily by
apartment chain property owners owned by hedge funds and other big
finance Wall St. organizations. Maria describes the efforts in progress
in her city to unite forces to resist unjust evictions and stabilize
rents by passing city ordnances giving renters some basic rights. Gayle
describes how the Richmond Progressive Alliance in her city challenged
and won majority seats on the city council and passed rent ordnances and
how the California Apartment Association—the big business lobbying arm
for multi-unit apartment owners—temporarily blocked the ordnance. Gayle
describes the organizing underway today for an even better rent ordnance
coming up this November. Jack offers suggestions how the various
fragmented efforts need to unite and ‘march on Sacramento’ to force
statewide rights for renters and stop the rent price gouging that is now
out of control, much like pharmaceutical drugs and education price
gouging.
For more information about events underway and planned
in Richmond, go to: [email protected] or
richmondprogressivealliance.net website. For events in Mt. View go to
mtviewtenantscoalition.org. Find out how successful resistance to rent
gouging is done.
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