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Mobius Strip(Mall): Fates of tenants & small business inseparable
August 15, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
Mobius Strip(Mall): Fates of tenants & small business inseparable
Which comes first, the Yupscaling of commercial rentals or the gentrification of residential ones? How does each play into the other? Andy Blue of the Community Coalition joins Pirate Jenny on Tenants Rights Radio to discuss why the campaign to keep Jack Spade and other "formula retail" (chain stores) out of San Francisco matters to your tenancy, and why residential and small commercial renters are finding common cause. We can stop the chicken-and-egg riddle from being answered, Doesn't matter, they both got squashed under that Hummer's wheels.

PLAYLIST
[Theme song: The Lord Giveth (and the Landlord Taketh Away) - Scott Cook]
Dunnes Stores - Christy Moore
Baba Says Cool For Thought - Lupe Fiasco
We Don't Want The Poor In New York City - The Undead
Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell - Das Racist
The New Restaurant- Malvina Reynolds
Green Hills Mall - Andy Gullahorn
Bird On A Wire [not the Leonard Cohen song!] - Reckless Kelly


What Does the New Condo-Conversion Law Mean for Your Tenancy?
August 8, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
What Does the New Condo-Conversion Law Mean for Your Tenancy?
Becca Gourevitch, a staffer at the San Francisco Tenants Union, drops by to talk about how the new condo conversion legislation can—and cannot—affect your tenancy, who's at risk, and what to be on the lookout for. Call-ins start at 4:30 for your questions about your building going condo, 415-962-7979. TRR will also be giving away a pair of tickets for The Livers of Steel Tour featuring Reckless Kelly, August 15th at Slim's.

PLAYLIST

Dot Com Monte Carlo - Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine
Money Honey - Wanda Jackson
Downtown Landlord Upscale Blues - Rich Minus
Money, Lies, And Real Estate - A Global Threat
Knocking Down Our Home [excerpt] - Badfinger
May Peace Find You Tonight Reckless Kelly
Stand Up [and Be Strong] - Keb 'Mo


Keeping Your Home While You're Away from Home: Home-Swap and Subletting Tips
July 25, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
Keeping Your Home While You're Away from Home: Home-Swap and Subletting Tips
Attorney Jason Wolford visits the studio to share his recent court victory and what it means to tenants who want to sublet or do home exchanges (temporary home swaps providing you housing in other cities or countries, NOT the use of AirBnB to make a profit).

Bad landlords have become increasingly aggressive in trying to use the law against AirBnB rentals where it doesn't actually apply (surprise!) Jason and Pirate Jenny discuss the recent court ruling, and offer tips on how to safely do a home-swap or sublet, even if you think you don't have the right to do one.

PLAYLIST
The Lord Giveth (and the Landlord Taketh Away)
Can't take mi landlord - Lui Lepki & The Professionals
The Landlord Song - Jonathan Coulton
The Landlord-Tenant Cha Cha Cha - Swumpf
Hey Landlord (Meatloaf & Fishsticks) - Kevn Kinney
Hey Landlord (1959) - The Five Crystals

Have an Eviction Free Summer
June 6, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
Have an Eviction Free Summer
Local housing activist Fred chats with Pirate Jenny about the formation of a new tenant activist group, and their first campaign, Eviction Free Summer.

Memorial Show for Dina Doggelah, Beloved Companion & TU Mainstay
May 30, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
Memorial Show for Dina Doggelah, Beloved Companion & TU Mainstay
Today Tenants Rights Radio bids farewell to the best counselor the Tenants Union ever had—everyone felt better after talking to Dina—and the best-behaved person at our Steering Committee meetings. Dubbed the Happiest Dog on the Planet by an admirer, Dina was my boon companion for 14 years, until her death yesterday, May 28th.

Too affectionate to be a good judge of character, Dina did, however, invaluably clue the Tenants Union in about which candidate for City office came to our endorsement meeting totally smashed. A lifelong Green, Dina enthusiastically did her part to recycle lunch scraps from the TU wastebaskets—so very enthusiastically that she could occasionally be spotted wearing the swing-through top from one of the wastebaskets.

The Oakland pound said she was a year-old Husky mix. Thirteen years later, I'm glad I didn't know I was in fact adopting a completely untrained six-month old Malamute mix, or I'd have missed out on one of the lights of my life.

The sweetest-natured dog ever, Dina loved human company, and her favorite spot was anywhere in between any two—or three, or four, or ten—friends. At our old apartment building, where she was the only pet, the little kids would gather around her in a circle and play “How Many Hands Can We Get on Dina?” The record was 16 hands, some of them toddlers', all petting her at once. (Dina converted two of our dog-despising neighbors there, each of who became a dog-lover and dog-adopter.)

From the day I adopted her, she could distinguish between libraries and stores, where she'd sit quietly in the car, and Places Where She Could Meet Human Friends: if I pulled up in front of a house, even one we’d never been visited before, Dina would howl—she knew there were about to be humans socializing, and she wanted to be part of it.

Dina was the most playful dog in any given park, and the belle of the park ball. Another dog-owner would begin the familiar litany, “Oh, my dog doesn’t play, he’s eight years old, and after all, he’s a Chow—” and his jaw would drop before he could finish the sentence, as Dina and his Chow-Chow raced by together.

After a period of fierce enchantment/obsession with the new kitten, Dina became a little jealous, and somewhat protective of me around him as well (maybe it was my screams whenever the kitten would launch himself from the floor onto my neck and dig in?) Nevertheless, she would often let him curl up with her to sleep, as she did on her last night.

Dina was diagnosed Friday with lymphoma, with an estimated month to live. Early Tuesday morning, she died painlessly at home. Happy Trails, sweetheart.

PLAYLIST TK


TRR Goes Shoebox: The compact edition
May 23, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
TRR Goes Shoebox: The compact edition
Like the shoebox apartments —but way more fun—this episode of Tenants Rights Radio is an abbreviated and more compact version of the usual, due to the illness of the TU's semi-official mascot and Pirate Jenny's very official canine companion, Dina. Mostly music, with a short piece of significant news at the show's close.

Updates on Weiner-Farell Legislation /Changes in Tenant Law
April 18, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
Updates on Weiner-Farell Legislation /Changes in Tenant Law

Two Hour Special: Rent Party Music [replay]
April 4, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
Two Hour Special: Rent Party Music [replay]

A Queerly Pitched Roof: Housing Needs of LGBT Seniors
March 28, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
A Queerly Pitched Roof: Housing Needs of LGBT Seniors
Tommi Avicolli Mecca, chair of San Francisco’s LGBT Aging Policy Task Force and friend of the show, joins Pirate Jenny to talk about the housing needs unique to queer seniors. Tommi, who is also the Counseling Coodrinator for the Housing Rights Committee, discusses how the New Tech-fueled onslaught of evictions is affecting LGBT seniors, , and why Monday’s hearing on queer senior housing concerns is so desperately needed.

[Photo: Raven Mahosadha, clinical case manager, at his desk at the SF AIDS Foundation. (Bay Area Reporter/ Rick Gerharter) ]



Playlist TK

Changes in Tenant Law 2012-2013
February 28, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
Changes in Tenant Law 2012-2013
From an upcoming ban on smoking inside your own apartment to a ban on landlords forcing you to "de-bark" your dog, from whether landlords can demand that you pay rent online to change inshort-term temporary relocation benefits, tune in to hear what’s new in tenant law. Kent Qian, staff attorney for the National Housing Law Project, joins Pirate Jenny on Tenants RIghts Radio to review changes in tenant law over the last year, both state- and city-wide.

PLAYLIST
If Elvis Were My Landlord - The Kids in the Hall
Oh Oh Oh, These Landlords (1919) - Irving Kaufman
Landlord - Meija
Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette - Tex Williams

No more security-deposit theft! "It's Your Money" launches
February 21, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
No more security-deposit theft! "It's Your Money" launches
California renters are robbed of millions every years via security-deposit theft by their landlords—and a new campaign kicks off today to put an end to it. Dean Preston, Executive Director of statewide nonprofit Tenants Together, stops by Tenants Rights Radio to unveil “It’s Your Money” and explain the three big changes the campaign seeks for tenant protection. Dean & Pirate Jenny also recap what you need to know about your security deposit and how to get it back. For more information: www.itsyourdeposit.org or contact www.sftu.org [podcast]9740[/podcast]

Playlist
Bastard Landlord - The Pogues
Landlord Song - Christ on Parade
The Lord Giveth and the Landlord Taketh Away = Scott Cook


HEIST: Gentrification smashes Mission businesses
February 14, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
HEIST: Gentrification smashes Mission businesses
Two-hour special:
Roundtable discussion with writer/artist Liz Worthy and community organizer Alexandra Goldman about the new gentrification epidemic overtaking the Mission and the rest of San Francisco.

Worthy's HEIST Boutique, an installation opening this Saturday, Feb.16th, in the box office window of the Roxie Theatre, is a response to the displacement of long-time Mission businesses serving Latino, working-class, and alternative communities by those catering to an influx of residents who can indulge in high-end tastes. Goldman, who is completing her Masters in City Planning at U.C. Berkeley, will talk about her research into the impact of the Google bus stops on San Francisco neighborhoods. (Hint: It's not 'not evil' for renters.).
AND we get our first trolling crank caller!

PLAYLIST
My Name is Money - Sonia Leigh
How to Gentrify Your Neighborhood - Ibish Comedy Instructional Films
The Gentrification Rap - from performance piece Dispersal: A Gentrification Story, w/rapper G-Spot.
Low Rent District - Steve Suffet
That's Progress - Jello Biafra
Litigation - The Tossers
It Begins Tonight - Tom Morello [The Nightwatchman]

HEIST Boutique Grand Opening: 4:00-8:00 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 16th St., Roxie Theatre, 3117 16th St (x Valencia). For more information, visit lizworthy.com.
Hit List (partial)
✖In 2006, Self Edge, a pricey jeans store, opened at the former storefront of Leather Tongue, a 15-year-old video store that rented 99-cent cult classics and sold the zines of local writers.
✖The site where the progressive bookstore Modern Times made its home for 20 of its 40+ years is now rented by Fine Arts Optical.
✖Botanica Yoruba had to move and was replaced by Viracocha, a vintage fashion/furnishing store with a performance space.(998 Valencia).
✖Bombay Bazar and Ice Creamery closed in 2010 and in its place the restaurant West of Picos opened last May.(550 Valencia) [Bombay recently reopened on S. Van Ness}
✖French crepe restaurant Ti Cous (1992-2011) is now a Giordano Bros., specializing in artisanal beers. (3108 16th St)
✖The Kentucky Fried Chicken location became home to Spork. Spork became The Rice Broker. This August the location reopened as a Sugoi Sushi. (1058 Valencia)
✖Wang Fat Fish Market turned into the boutique Fabuloid which turned into Zoe Bikini. (2199 Mission)

Graphic: One of many stellar posters from the SF Print Collective. Check out their work at www.sfprintcollective.com .

WE ARE NOT POWERLESS: Occupy Bernal saves homes!
February 7, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
WE ARE NOT POWERLESS: Occupy Bernal saves homes!
Tenant--the shadow victims of foreclosure crisis--and individual owners fighting unjust foreclosures, are coming together in common cause. Pirate Jenny discusses this alliance today with a representative of Occupy Bernal, regarded as the most active and successful local group addressing foreclosures citywide. 'Although we currently haven’t pitched any tents, we are occupying our neighborhood through our homes, schools, workplaces, and community.' Spokesperson Stardust joins us to talk about Occupy Bernal/s mission, tactics, and upcoming events.
TRR alert: After helping hundreds of others, housing activist Nell Myhand is now battling to save her own home; please check out her site & petition: www.nellmyhand.net/home.htm)

PLAYLIST
Gentrification - Alison Crockett
Mister Speculator - Le Cercie
Upper 6th St Loan Shark/Banker Bets, Banker Wins - Ian Anderson
Short Sale Foreclosure Blues – Rich Rector
Banks of Marble - The Irish Brigade

[Photo: Occupy Bernal commits truth in advertising.]

Evictions to skyrocket: Crucial hearing 1/28 @City Hall
January 24, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
Evictions to skyrocket: Crucial hearing 1/28 @City Hall
The new wave of evictions already decimating San Francisco will swell massively if legislation to be heard this Monday, January 28, goes forward unchallenged. Come out to the rally & press conference conference/rally sponsored by tenant, community, and senior groups and let the Supervisors know: Don't Sell Us Out!
The new wave of evictions already decimating San Francisco will swell massively if legislation to be heard this Monday, January 28, goes forward unchallenged. Come out to the rally & press conference conference/rally sponsored by tenant, community, and senior groups and let the Supervisors know: Don’t Sell Us Out!
Noon: Rally/Press conference on the steps of City Hall, Polk St. side
1:00 p.m. Come testify at the hearing, Rm. 263, City Hall., especially if you are being evicted or have been. If being evicted would leave you homeless or force you out of San Francisco, be sure to let the Supervisors know.

Ted Gullickson of the SF Tenants Union and Becca Gourevitch of the SFTU and Occupy Housing join Pirate Jenny to discuss what this legislation will do to tenants.

What tenants need to know:
Supervisors Scott Weiner and Mark Farrell have introduced a bill that would allow the 2,000 TICs [tenancies in common, smaller buildings w/multiple owners] now in the condo lottery to bypass the usual limit of 200 conversions/year. Instead, Weiner will let them all instantly condo-convert for a fee of a few thousand dollars--instantly increasing the worth of each unit worth by 20%-40%: $150,000-$300,00 more. This is the profit motive driving many fabricated or illegal evictions (and a big wet kiss for those Weiner/s and Farrell/s many speculator/realtor/developer donors).

Framed now as a one-time only exception 'for the sake of efficiency,' Weiner/s bill will result in an estimated 5,000+ tenant evictions--and it is clearly intended to set a precedent (after all, when does efficiency ever go out of vogue?)
If your home-turned-condo has not yet been sold, profit-focused landlords will push for evictions with buyout offers, threats, or faked causes. Once your home-turned-condo *is* sold, you are even more at risk: rent-control disappears, and you can be evicted at the landlord’s will or whim, without any just cause. See you Monday!

For an excellent brief summary, check out Tommi Avicolli’s concise editorial:

http://www.sfbg.com/topic/news/opinion

PLAYLIST
That/s Progress--Jello Biafra
Evicted--David Mansfield
Goodbye to Oakland--Dear Landlord
Poem For The Native--Johnette Napolitano
Evicted--Cameron Miller
Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed--Show of Hands
Cashout--Fugazi
The Lord Giveth (and the Landlord Taketh Away)--Scott Cook


Happy Holidays, Now Get the Fuck Out! anti-eviction rally
January 10, 2013 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
Happy Holidays, Now Get the Fuck Out! anti-eviction rally
Rally/Press Conference protesting the new wave of evictions throughout the city.
Brief speeches by tenants, organizers, and activists, including Tommi Avicolli Mecca (Housing Rights Committee), Tina Cheung (Chinatown Community Development Center), Lucia Kimble (Causa Justa/Just Cause); Brian Basinger (AIDS Housing Alliance); and Ted Gullicksen & Falcor (SF Tenants Union). Interviews with Fred and Brian Basinger.

Playlist:

We Shall Not Be Moved - This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
This House Is Not For Sale - Ryan Adams
Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed - Show of Hands
Disparity By Design - Rise Against
Banker Bets, Banker Wins - Ian Anderson
Fight For Your Rights - The Liptones
Stand Up (And Be Strong) - Keb' Mo'



Renters' rights music: Ann Bonny takes on the landlords
December 27, 2012 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
Renters' rights music: Ann Bonny takes on the landlords
Playlist:

The Worst Pirate Song - Ceann
Dear Landlord - Janis Joplin
Fading American Dream - Street Dogs
Beta Blocker - Redjetson
Litigation - The Tossers
No Rest For The Weary - Blue Scholars
Chicago - The Tossers
Bolt Cutter - Doomtree
Fuck the Landlord - Slyde
Let's Lynch the Landlord - Whiskey Daredevils
Fatten Your Landlord - Stephen Clair
Kill My Landlod - The Coup
The Lord Givet (and the Landlord Taketh Away) - Scott Cook
The Worst Pirate Song - Ceann

2-Hr Special: Rent Party Music & Hardscrabble Songs, w/guest co-host DJ McSchmormac
December 20, 2012 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
2-Hr Special: Rent Party Music & Hardscrabble Songs, w/guest co-host DJ McSchmormac
Guest co-host DJ McSchmormac raids his pre-1951 collection to join Mara Maccabee for two hours of Rent Party music & hardscrabble songs. For more pre-51 music, check out DJ McSchmormac's show Gramophoney Baloney, 10-noon on Sundays.

Playlist:
Labor Blues - Tom D. Dixon (1928)
Do Rei Mi - Woody Guthrie (1940)
House Rent Boogie - John Lee hooker (1952)
The Lord Giveth (And the Landlord Taketh Away) - Scott Cook
Landlord, What In the Heaven Is The Matter With You? - John L. Handcox
The Bum\s Hotel - Uncle Dave Macon (1937)
Richmond Blues - Rutherford and Foster
Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt (1928)
Times Has Done Got Hard - King Solomon Hill (1932)
Tell It To Your Landlord - Harmonica Shah
Hard Times - Watermelon Slim and the Worker
No Loot, No Booze, No Fun - The Tossers
Happy Song for Hanoi - Merry Airbrakes [Watermelon Slim]
Country Blues - Dick Boggs (1929)
Box Car Blues - Leroy Carr (1928)
I Aint Got No Home - Woody Guthrie (194_?)
Hard Times - Woody Guthrie (1940)
We Are The Working Poor - Tin Bird Choir
Beta Blocker - Redjetson
Down on Penny\s Farm - The Bently Boys
Dixie Boll Weevil - Fiddlin John Carson (1920)
Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin
Hey Landlord (Meatloaf & Fishsticks) - Kevin Kinney
The Rich Will Never Be Poor - Carol Denney
Hard Times - EastMountainSouth
All In Down and Out Blues - Uncle Dave Macon (1931)
Starving to Death on a Government Claim - Edward L. Crain
What Am I To Do Blues - Skip James (1931)
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live - Blind Alfred Reed
Hard Times - J.D. Shortt
Hard Times Come Again No More - Graham Brothers
Rich Man's World - Eilen Jewell


Miguel Wooding/"Happy Holidays, Now Get the Fuck Out!" demo
December 13, 2012 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
Miguel Wooding/"Happy Holidays, Now Get the Fuck Out!" demo
TRR remembers the extraordinary and pivotal housing activist Miguel Wooding (Dec. 10, 1964-July 24, 2011)
http://www.cohsf.org/?p=814

Tommi Avicolli Mecca joins TRR to discuss the demonstration coming up in the Castro on Dec. 19th:
"Happy Holidays, Now Get the *&^! Out!" will run from noon

[For Miguel Wooding]
They Are Falling All Around Me [Sweet Honey cover], Holly Near
Biking Home, Lisa Gerrard
Quantum Theory, Jarvis Cocker
Mozart/French horn, David Pyatt


Get 'em Out By Fri, Genesis
Cashout, Fugazi
redux: They Are Falling All Around Me [Sweet Honey cover], Holly Near

R&R&R: Satirical political music for post-election rest, relaxation & recovery
November 8, 2012 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
R&R&R: Satirical political music for post-election rest, relaxation & recovery
To help you recover from election fatigue, TRR offers a special hour of satirical political music, concluding with a little inspiration for returning to the fight. Relax & enjoy!

Music Playlist:

Election Song, Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains
What Did You Do On Election Day?, The Foremen
i'm a better anarchist than you, David Rovics
Scorched Earth Day, The Foremen
My Conservative Girlfriend, The Foremen
No Shoes, The Foremen
Everyman [For Himself], The Foremen
California Couldn't Pay Our Education, The Foremen
Someday Soon, Great Big Sea
North County Jail, Carol Denney
Be [what you want to be], The Tossers
Stand Up (And Be Strong), Keb' Mo'
We Just Want the World, David Rovics
After the Revolution, David Rovics
Punk Rock Baby, David Rovics



Image from
browndresswithwhitedots.tumblr.com/post/3307310566, or at least that's as far back I could trace it.

City in the Balance: Some candidates DO want to kill Rent Control
November 1, 2012 4:00pm

 

Tenant Rights Radio
City in the Balance: Some candidates DO want to kill Rent Control
CITY IN THE BALANCE: RENT CONTROL AT RISK.
The Supe races in D1 & 5 will determine WHETHER RENT CONTROL IS KILLED. Really—no hype.
DON'T VOTE for DAVID LEE or LONDON BREED!

Guest Calvin Welch knows where the bodies are buried and isn't afraid to tell. Join us for some extremely candid dishing on the upcoming election—who's buying who, the story beneath the story, and what's really at stake this year, w/special attention to the crucial races, D1 and D5. Calvin makes a compelling case for Christina Olague as the only one in D5 who can beat anti-rent-control conspirator London Breed.
Calvin Welch has worked in the affordable housing arena for decades. He is currently Projects Director for the Council of Community Housing Organizations and a board member of the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council, neither of which he is representing on tonight's show.

Tenants Union endorsements at SFTU.org., incl.NO on Prop B ($ *not* guaranteed to go to parks, can go to privatization schemes) , NO on Prop. 35 (badly-written law may actually give traffickers an out & hurts victims) and NO on Prop 38 (a decoy to kill the real ed bill, Prop 30).

Music Playlist
Mutt Romney Blues, Ry Cooder
I Swung the Election The Citizens Band


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