Tenants Together
Tenants Together
California's Statewide Organization for Renters' Rights

http://www.tenantstogether.org
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Tenants Together In this blog post, a Florida attorney examines some recent court cases in which courts are giving banks the hard time they deserve in foreclosure eviction cases.

blog.floridaforeclosurelawyer.org
The financial tsunami unleashed by Wall Street’s esurient alchemy of spinning toxic home mortgages into triple-A bonds, a process known as securitization, has set off its second round of financial tremors.
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Tenants Together Our winter newsletter is now available online. Check it out!

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Tenants Together "A federal stimulus program aimed at preventing tenants from being evicted because of the recession is arousing lots of interest but few are finding they qualify for aid. The lead agency in distributing $3 million earmarked for Contra Costa has received 574 inquiries and 87 applications but has approved 16."

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A federal stimulus program aimed at preventing tenants from being evicted because of the recession is arousing lots of interest but few are finding they qualify for aid.
Tenants Together

Tenants Together Important article about how CalPERS squandered money on bad real estate investments, including the predatory scheme in East Palo Alto. Time for public hearings to get to the bottom of how CalPERS invested in these risky & abusive real estate acquisitions and how best to make sure it never happens again...

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Tenants Together

Tenants Together "2009: The Year Wall Street Bounced Back and Main Street Got Shafted"

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Tenants Together Congratulations to our friends at the Inner City Law Center and the tenants they represented in this case. This $3.3 million victory that should help send a message to L.A. slumlords.

www.latimes.com
Jonathan Dominguez, 7, peers out from a small closet where water leaks from the ceiling. Thanks to the settlement money, Jonathan will get to meet his grandmother on a family trip to Mexico, and his father may open a business. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / November 18, 2009)
Tenants Together

Tenants Together Support tenants' rights with a donation today! We're uniting tenants across the state, and we need your help in this historic effort. Many thanks...

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Please use the form below to make your secure online donation to Tenants Together. Or if you prefer, you can mail a check to Tenants Together, 995 Market Street, Suite 1202, San Francisco, CA 94103.
Bill

Bill The American Tenants Association is the country's only nationwide tenants advocacy group. Please check out our website and blog and become a "fan" of the ATA by typing American Tenants Association in the Facebook search box. Thanks to all residential renters and best wishes for the New Year! www.americantenants.org

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Representing the more than 95 million residential renters in the United States, the American Tenants Association is the leading advocate for tenants on issues of political, economic and social importance affecting our quality of life.
Tenants Together

Tenants Together LA weekly has the latest on LA mega-landlord, Donald Sterling. Sterling tries to keep housing discrimination out of pending employment discrimination case.

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Los Angeles News. Clippers Owner Tries To Keep Housing Discrimination Issue Out Of Elgin Baylor Case. LA Weekly news, blogs, music, movies, restaurants and the arts.
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Tenants Together Predatory landlord recognized by Palo Alto Online as a "Newsmaker of the Year", winning the award for "Fiscal crisis of the year".

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Page Mill Properties' EPA operation raises rents, gets sued, implodesThe war between Page Mill Properties and its tenants in East Palo Alto hit two key turning points in September. First, a San Mateo County ...
Baja Caribe

Baja Caribe EVERYBODY! VOTE with your wallets and purses... TAKE YOUR MONEY OUT OF BANKS, which have Failed Us All (after putting us in the poor house or on the streets) and open up an account at a LOCAL - COMMUNITY BASED CREDIT UNION (which have never failed us and have never needed a Bail Out (read: theft by conversion disgui...sed as a Bail Out).

Reroute YOUR CASH FLOW to YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES, LANDLORDS AND MOM AND POP SMALL BUSINESSES INSTEAD of continuing to give your hard earned cash or govt.benefits to the greedy multinational banks, national chains and out of area landlords who do NOT care about you, your family or neighborhood as much as LOCALS DO.

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December 25, 2009 at 10:58am · Report
Tenants Together

Tenants Together Like the landlord, California Water Service is looking like Scrooge here. "We like to work with our customers," says a company spokesperson. But they're putting the tenants on the hook for the landlord's outstanding balance.

www.bakersfieldnow.com
The former owner of a large Kern County dairy is linked to the property where piles of dead sheep have been found. James Borba is owner of the land where the carcasses were found near Highway 119 and I-5, according to county records.
Bill
Bill
The American Tenants Association has been fighting this sort of landlord irresponsibility. Join us! Become a Fan on Facebook. Thanks. www.americantenants.org
December 28, 2009 at 10:07pm
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The Legal Services Corporation will no longer enforce the rule that barred clients represented by legal services agencies from collecting attorney fees. Until this recent move, clients represented by private ...
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Joan
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December 22, 2009 at 7:48pm
Sandra Pearson

Sandra Pearson So now I know why my furnace didn't get fixed last Friday - The bank (First Fed of CA) was too busy being shut down by FDIC. Oh, joy.

December 22, 2009 at 1:29pm · Report
Sandra Pearson
Sandra Pearson
Two weeks without heat.
December 28, 2009 at 8:56pm
Tenants Together

Tenants Together NBA Hall of Famer and former Clippers GM Elgin Baylor on mega-landlord Donald Sterling: "team owner Donald Sterling has embraced a "vision of a Southern plantation-type structure" for his NBA franchise, accusing him of decades-long racist behavior."

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NBA Hall of Famer and former longtime Clippers executive Elgin Baylor alleges in a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles that team owner Donald Sterling has embraced a "vision of a Southern