Good afternoon!
It is mostly about housing today. Tenants at 140 Julian Avenue are using a new law that allows tenants to form associations to confer with landlords when a problem arises.
Doing so makes for some alliances between those tenants paying market rates and longtime tenants who may be monolingual and confused by documents that arrive in English. That seems to be the case at 140 Julian.
Tenants at 205 Jones Steet are suing their manager, Mercy Housing, for the “uninhabitable” conditions there.
A gentleman who contributes Snaps to Mission Local, sent an email thanking us for the story about Mercy tenants. He lives in a similar place – one that also had a fire.
Since the fire, he wrote, “bugs, never present before, are everywhere. Because the
building has poor hygiene in general, I often battled fruit flies for
hours after work. I ended up taping the cracks to my doors, which helped,
but were useless after I left.”
These are reasons to have a strong nonprofit news site.
All the best,
Lydia
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