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Your Call: Has the housing crunch revitalized the renter’s rights movement?

Redwood City residents at Courthouse Square

  

As rents and evictions continue to soar throughout Northern California, several cities are taking action. On Election Day, a number of Bay Area cities passed or strengthened rent control laws.

A state bill would extend tenant protections to people who rent single-family homes. San Francisco Supervisors recently passed a law to protect renters from fraudulent owner move-in evictions.

How has the housing crisis revitalized the renter’s rights movement? 

Guests:

Darwin BondGraham,  award-winning staff writer at the East Bay Express

Dean Preston, founder and executive director of Tenants Together

Bigad Shaban, award-winning investigative reporter for NBC Bay Area
 

Web Resources:
 
Tenants Together

East Bay Times: Town Business: Oakland Isn't Meeting Its Affordable Housing Goals; Is the City Discriminating in Contracting?

NBC Bay Area: Investigative Unit: San Francisco Landlords May Have Wrongfully Evicted Hundreds of Tenants

San Jose Mercury: Housing crisis causes legislative avalanche: 130 bills proposed in Sacramento

Sacramento Bee: Rent increases, evictions up in immigrant communities under Trump, housing lawyers say

NBC Bay Area: Crackdown on Fraudulent SF Evictions Passes Unanimously After NBC Bay Area Investigation Reveals Widespread Abuse

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.