Mayor Eric Garcetti to Join Housing Advocates, Labor Leaders, & Community Organizations at L.A. Press Conference to Support R...
April 22 2018 - 10:11PM
Business Wire
L.A. PRESS CONFERENCE: Monday, April 23, 10:00
a.m.
Advocates to announce submission of a total of
over 565,000 voter signatures to County Registrars in all 58
California counties in support of ballot initiative to repeal the
Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.
Press Conferences also to be held at
Oakland City Hall and the State Capitol in
Sacramento
On Monday, April 23, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and
Councilmember Mike Bonin (D-11th District) will join housing
advocates, labor leaders, community activists, and fellow elected
officials in a press conference outside Los Angeles City Hall
(Spring Street Plaza facing Grand Park) in support of the
Affordable Housing Act, which would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental
Housing Act of 1995. The advocates will announce the submission of
over 565,000 voter signatures throughout the 58 counties in
California to place the Affordable Housing Act on the statewide
November ballot.
The Affordable Housing Act will close the loophole in rent
control created by the Costa-Hawkins Act, which prohibits
California communities from setting reasonable and fair limits on
rent increases and protecting tenants through rent control on
single family homes, condos, and buildings built after 1995, or the
year rent control was established within a city – 1978 in the case
of Los Angeles. (Costa-Hawkins explained)
The Los Angeles event details are:
10:00 a.m.Los Angeles City Hall (Outside on the Spring
Street Plaza facing Grand Park)200 N Spring St., Los Angeles, CA
90012Hon. Eric Garcetti, Mayor, City of Los AngelesHon.
Mike Bonin, Councilmember, 11th District, City of Los
AngelesOther speakers TBD
*Spokespeople available to outlets before and at event.
Spanish-speakers also available.
The Los Angeles press conference is a part of two other actions
taking place at the State Capitol in Sacramento and Oakland City
Hall also on Monday. Hundreds of renters, landlords, housing
advocates, labor leaders, clergy, community activists, and others
displaced by California’s housing affordability crisis will take
part in all three of the rallies.
Sacramento
- 11:00 a.m.Renters Leave
Westminster Church to March to Capitol Grounds1300 N St.,
Sacramento, CA 95814(Photo opportunity: renters marching along
capitol mall with signs and banners)
- Noon Rally at State Capitol
(North Steps)1315 10th St., B-27Sacramento, CA 95814
Oakland
- Noon (12 p.m.)Oakland City Hall1
Frank H. Ogawa PlazaOakland, CA 94612 (Inside the Rotunda
steps)
The rent is too damn high! While evictions are creating a crisis
in California, thousands of people are being forced out of their
homes and the neighborhoods they grew up in, commuting hours to and
from work, or literally living on the streets. Hard-working people
can't afford a decent place to live. California can do better, and
we need immediate change to stop this wave of displacement to keep
people in their homes.
Repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act will give local
communities a critical tool to tackle the state’s housing crisis by
allowing them to implement more robust rent control if they feel it
is the right method for handling their residents’ needs.
The Affordable Housing Act is sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare
Foundation, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
(ACCE Action), and the Eviction Defense Network.
Learn more at http://www.affordablehousingact.org/.
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Media Advisory Contacts:Housing Is a Human RightJim
Ross415-377-6968orArielle Sallai, Communications
Specialist925-876-0556arielle@housinghumanright.orgorAIDS
Healthcare FoundationGed Kenslea, AHF
Communications323-791-5526 (mobile)gedk@aidshealth.org