Comments on: Tenant Troubles: Is The Rule Of Seven Really A Thing?

By: Howard Schumann

Howard Schumann — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:36:00 +0000

Thanks. It should have been left out of the article since it adds nothing.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:15:00 +0000

Yes. Howard has captured The est Training perfectly. How it has anything to do with landlord practices in San Francisco is dubious.

By: Howard Schumann

Howard Schumann — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 05:33:00 +0000

Mr. Crow is wrong on all counts when it comes to est. He labels it a “a quintessential me-generation, greed-is-good psuedoreligion popular in the 70s.” Est had nothing whatsoever to do with religion, pseudo or otherwise and there was nothing in the two weekend training that promoted the “goodness of greed.” On the contrary, every aspect of the program came from the ground of being of compassion and support.

Mr. Crow is obviously unfamiliar with the program and is relying on second or third hand information to discredit it, most likely from others who have not done it.

The two-weekend training, created by Werner Erhard, provided participants with the opportunity to look at their life and to experience what was working and what was not. It was a program designed to shake people loose from deadening positions that were running their life, to take responsibility for it and to experience their own power to affect the quality of their life.

Rather than becoming self-absorbed as the media slogans would have us believe, it allowed people to take the value they received from the training out into the world to share it with others. It was the “you and me” generation rather than the “you or me” generation.

By: njudah

njudah — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 01:28:00 +0000

“After a long night of cocaine and disco binging at Henry Africa’s,”

ok this was brilliant. seriously.

By: cedichou

cedichou — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:24:00 +0000

It needs to be said that Santa Monica does not have vacancy control anymore. And good thing they don’t, since (quoting from: http://www.nmhc.org/ThirdPartyGuidance.cfm?ItemNumber=60869 )

– The total supply of rental units DROPPED … 8 percent in Santa Monica between 1978 and 1990, even though the rental supply ROSE in most nearby cities.
– a study of rent control in Berkeley and Santa Monica found that the beneficiaries of controls in those communities are “predominately white, well-educated, young professionally employed and affluent,” and that rent control had substantially increased the disposable income of these tenants while “exacerbating” the problems of low-income families.
[Emphasis mine. Note that “well-educated, professionally employed and affluent tenants” having to fight with landlords is just a perfect constituency for a … tenant lawyer.]

So Dave may deplore that SF passed an “anemic Rent Ordinance,” but tenants in SF are better off for it. Imagine the city losing 10% of its rental housing stock in 10 years like Berkeley or Santa Monica did! For comparison, the city loses less than 1% to condo conversion in 10 years, and less than 0.8% to Ellis act over the last 10 years.