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By Joe Mac
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April 12, 2008 |
With all due respect to 76-year-old landlord Mr. Gibbs and his defenders ("Landlord rights defended," The Examiner, April 11), I was not trying to wade into the debate on rent control, subsidizing tenants or the burden put on landlords in San Francisco. | Read More  |
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By Peter Reitz, Executive Director
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March 24, 2008 |
PROP 98 – Protects Homes, Apartments, Businesses, Farms, Churches, from being taken from one owner and transferred to another private owner by Eminent Domain. | Read More |
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By David Fix
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January 31, 2008 |
Please join SPOSF, Plan C and the SF TIC coalition for a rally to support
condominium conversion reform! On February 6th the City will hold its annual
condominium conversion lottery. This year, we’re using this once-a-year
opportunity to show our dissatisfaction with an outdated process that
unfairly penalizes first time homeowners! | Read More |
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October 8, 2007 |
At its September 10 meeting, the SPOSF Board of Directors endorsed the following for the November 6, 2007 election: | Read More |
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By David Fix
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April 10, 2007 |
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March 26, 2007 |
The new SPOSFI lease is now available on the website. | Read More |
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By Michael J. Sullivan, of Plan C. Guest Article posted with author's permission
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March 26, 2007 |
Annual statistics for San Francisco’s rapidly evolving real estate market recently became available – and they paint an interesting story. | Read More |
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By David Fix
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March 14, 2007 |
SPOSFI members have been invited to a panel discussion sponsored by the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC) (www.sfhac.org) to address San Francisco's Middle Class Housing Crisis. | Read More |
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By David Fix
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February 15, 2007 |
The Rent Board will be having a hearing regarding the proposed rules and regulations for the Mirkarimi decrease in housing service legislation. This is your last chance to present comments on this proposal. | Read More |
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By David Fix
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October 22, 2006 |
Thank you for your donations. We have received 400 donations from our members so far. Mailers were sent this week to 63,000 absentee voters. Another 60-70,000 mailers will be sent to voters before election day. We delivered signs this weekend. If you did not receive your sign or you did not already asked for a sign and can put some up please contact us ASAP. We have plenty available. We also launched the website: www.TruthonPropH.com | Read More |
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September 25, 2006 |
SPOSF November Election Endorsements
Because of rank choice voting, SPOSF's board decided to endorse more than one candidate in a number of races. | Read More |
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July 27, 2006 |
Supervisors Mirkarimi and McGoldrick introduced new resolutions to the Board of Supervisors this week regarding evictions. When the Peskin anti-condo legislation passed two months ago, that was supposed to put an end to the Ellis eviction debate. It lasted less than two months. | Read More |
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July 26, 2006 |
We need to strengthen our organization and our community outreach in order to fight back and to educate our supervisors and people throughout the neighborhoods about our contributions to solving the city’s housing problems. | Read More |
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By Kim Stryker
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July 2, 2006 |
It appears from saber rattling in Southern California as well as locally that rent control activists are setting up a plan to try to repeal or put restrictions on the Ellis Act again. | Read More |
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July 1, 2005 |
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in the case of Lingle v. Chevron that Hawaii's gas station rent control does not violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. | Read More |
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Help us bring the issues of rent control to the national stage.
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March 1, 2005 |
On January 14, The SPOSF Institute, along with San Francisco Apartment Association, California Apartment Association, and San Francisco Association of Realtors filed an amicus brief in the Lingle v. Chevron case that was argued on February 22 at the U.S. Supreme Court. | Read More |
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