{"id":1635,"date":"2010-03-02T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/02\/daly-pens-letter-urging-support-of-tenant-financial-hardship-measure\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T02:59:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T10:59:32","slug":"daly-pens-letter-urging-support-of-tenant-financial-hardship-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1635\/daly-pens-letter-urging-support-of-tenant-financial-hardship-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"Daly Pens Letter Urging Support <br>of Tenant Financial Hardship Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/noname.jpg\" alt=\"noname.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Cartoon by Jose Luis Pavon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 2, 2010<\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to Board President David Chiu, Supervisors David Campos, Ross Mirkarimi and John Avalos, District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/docs\/daly_letter_tenant_hardship.pdf\">urged continued support of a June ballot measure<\/a> proposal that aims to provide tenants most impacted by the recession temporary relief from rent increases.<\/p>\n<p>According to Daly, the measure would &#8220;apply only to tenants in rent-controlled units who: 1) are paying more than 33% of their income for rent; 2) have little or no assets; and 3) are unemployed, had at least a 20% decrease in wages in the past year, or receive only government benefits with no cost of living increase.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Daly&#8217;s letter is in response to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/docs\/newsom_letter_tenant_hardship.pdf\">March 1 letter by Mayor Gavin Newsom<\/a> urging the measure&#8217;s backers to withdraw their support for the initiative.  In his letter, Newsom cites &#8220;operational and legal&#8221; problems with the measure.<\/p>\n<p>With a current unemployment rate of over 9 percent in San Francisco and as many as 560,000 renters, the measure is likely to garner sweeping support at the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p>The ballot initiative has the backing of a majority of members on the Board of Supervisors as well as tenant and community organizations, including the San Francisco Tenants Union, SOMCAN, St. Peter&rsquo;s Housing Committee, Community Tenants Association, Housing Rights Committee, and Central City SRO Collaborative.  It is opposed by Supervisors Bevan Dufty, Michela Alioto-Pier, Sean Elsbernd and Carmen Chu; Plan-C, Small Property Owners of San Francisco and the San Francisco Apartment Association.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Info<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/docs\/newsom_letter_tenant_hardship.pdf\">Letter from Newsom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/docs\/daly_letter_tenant_hardship.pdf\">Letter from Daly <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoon by Jose Luis Pavon By Luke Thomas March 2, 2010 In a letter addressed to Board President David Chiu, Supervisors David Campos, Ross Mirkarimi and John Avalos, District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly today urged&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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