Comments on: Bus-Blocking Protesters Call Out Google Staffer Who’s Allegedly Trying To Evict Guerrero Street Tenants

By: smushmoth

smushmoth — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 23:36:00 +0000

Furthermore many of those ellis units are occupied as TIC units.

By: cedichou

cedichou — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:59:00 +0000

So I provided a link that give you Ellis data AND MORE (all no-fault evictions), what’s the problem with this exactly? Can you figure out which table column and which graph reads Ellis?

I truly want an honest explanation, but can you give me one?

The real problem is increasing housing costs in SF. Ban all Ellis acts, and you are left with… exactly the same problem: 10,000 new people vying for housing between 2012 and 2013. Can you calculate that 100 Ellis acts in 2012 = 1% of what is needed to accommodate them 10,000 newcomers?

By: Forthright

Forthright — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:50:00 +0000

But focusing on a non-problem is a distraction from focusing on the real problem…yep EXACTLY. Ellis accounts for only ONE of the parameters in the link you shared, by the way. So that is NOT, as you call it, “Ellis Act data..”
Sounds like you don’t really want an explanation, to be honest.

By: cedichou

cedichou — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:49:00 +0000

can you explain to me where I’m wrong?

Here’s the data on Ellis act:
http://www.sustainablecommunitiesindex.org/city_indicators/view/79
Total Ellis act eviction between 2005-2012: 1,200.

Also, you can look at the census data to see that SF population has increased by 10,000 between 2012 and 2013! 22,000 since 2010!
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06075.html

Which one is the main problem: Loss of 1,200 units in 8 years, or gain of 22,000 new people in three years? Which one will stretch the rental market more? Gourevitch says Ellis act is the main problem. Well, data says otherwise.

But focusing on a non-problem is a distraction from focusing on the real problem…

By: HappyHighwayman

HappyHighwayman — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:24:00 +0000

How awful people continue the American tradition of doing what they want with shit they own.

By: Forthright

Forthright — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:36:00 +0000

you could not be more wrong,

By: sebra leaves

sebra leaves — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 03:00:00 +0000

Chances are good that the next economic cleansing will hit the most recently hired as it has in the past and we shall see how “cool” evictions are.

By: cedichou

cedichou — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:49:00 +0000

Also: “We want to keep San Francisco teachers in San Francisco and they’re being evicted with the Ellis Act, which is a main way people are being pushed out,” Gourevitch said.

Well, if that’s the main way people are pushed out, then there is no problem, really, because only roughly 100 units are lost to Ellis act every year and Ellis act evictions are not at a particularly high level right now.

By: cedichou

cedichou — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:45:00 +0000

The article states: The building was recently purchased by a Google employee who “proceeded to evict tenants using illegal methods,” according to a statement from Eviction Free San Francisco.

I’m curious, what is illegal here? Ellis act is legal and no one can force the owner to be a landlord. He’s an asshole for evicting disabled ladies and toddlers, but he’s a legal asshole, as far as the other facts in the article are presented.