SLUMLORDS: THE REAL UNTOUCHABLES
San Francisco is often billed as a “renters’ paradise,” offering the best renter-friendly protections in the nation. But this simply isn’t true. Many high-ranking officials at the City’s Department of...
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The power of slumlords throughout the Nation calls to mind the scene in “The Untouchables” where Sean Connery’s veteran cop tells Eliot Ness: “Everybody knows where the liquor is. It’s just a question...
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On November 6, 2012, Americans overwhelmingly re-elected Barack Obama as President of the United States. And on the same date, Americans in Colorado and Washington state overwhelmingly voted to...
View ArticleTAXING CRIMINALS FOR REVENUES: PART ONE (OF TWO)
The power of slumlords throughout the Nation calls to mind the scene in the 1987 movie, The Untouchables, where Sean Connery’s veteran cop tells Eliot Ness: “Everybody knows where the liquor is. It’s...
View ArticleTAXING CRIMINALS FOR REVENUES: PART TWO (END)
Come visit San Francisco and you’ll see all the famous sights so beloved by tourists: Ghirardelli Square, the cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge. What you won’t see is one of the biggest blights facing...
View ArticleHELL IN “THE RENTERS’ PARADISE”: PART ONE (OF THREE)
To hear slumlords tell it, San Francisco is a “renters’ paradise,” where obnoxious, lazy, rent-evading tenants constantly take advantage of hard-working, put-upon landlords. Don’t believe it. And in...
View ArticleHELL IN “THE RENTERS’ PARADISE”: PART TWO (OF THREE)
The “war on drugs” has some valuable lessons to teach the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI) which is charged with protecting tenants against predatory landlords. Consider: At least...
View ArticleHELL IN THE “RENTERS’ PARADISE”: THREE (END)
Slumlords would have everyone believe that San Francisco is a “renters’ paradise.” A place where hard-working landlords are routinely taken advantage of by rent-avoiding bums who want to be constantly...
View ArticleHELL IN THE RENTER’S PARADISE: PART ONE (OF THREE)
To hear slumlords tell it, San Francisco is a “renters’ paradise,” where obnoxious, lazy, rent-evading tenants constantly take advantage of hard-working, put-upon landlords. Don’t believe it. On April...
View ArticleHELL IN THE RENTERS’ PARADISE: PART TWO (OF THREE)
Slumlords would have everyone believe that San Francisco is a “renters’ paradise.” A place where hard-working landlords are routinely taken advantage of by rent-avoiding bums who want to be constantly...
View ArticleHELL IN THE RENTERS’ PARADISE: PART THREE (END)
San Francisco tenants need not be put at the mercy of greedy, arrogant slumlords. And the agencies that are supposed to protect them need not be reduced to impotent farces. The San Francisco...
View ArticleSLUMLORDS–THE REAL UNTOUCHABLES: PART ONE (OF TWO)
To hear slumlords tell it, San Francisco is a “renters’ paradise,” where obnoxious, lazy, rent-evading tenants constantly take advantage of hard-working, put-upon landlords. Don’t believe it. A...
View ArticleSLUMLORDS–THE REAL UNTOUCHABLES: PART TWO (OF THREE)
Slumlords would have everyone believe that San Francisco is a “renters’ paradise.” A place where hard-working landlords are routinely taken advantage of by rent-avoiding bums who want to be constantly...
View ArticleSLUMLORDS–THE REAL UNTOUCHABLES: PART THREE (END)
San Francisco tenants need not be put at the mercy of greedy, arrogant slumlords. And the agencies that are supposed to protect them need not be reduced to impotent farces. The San Francisco...
View ArticleHELL IN THE RENTERS’ PARADISE: PART ONE (OF THREE)
To hear slumlords tell it, San Francisco is a “renters’ paradise,” where obnoxious, lazy, rent-evading tenants constantly take advantage of hard-working, put-upon landlords. Don’t believe it. And in...
View ArticleHELL IN THE RENTERS’ PARADISE: PART TWO (OF THREE)
The “war on drugs” has some valuable lessons to teach the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI) which is charged with protecting tenants against predatory landlords. Consider: At least...
View ArticleHELL IN THE RENTERS’ PARADISE: PART THREE (END)
Slumlords would have everyone believe that San Francisco is a “renters’ paradise.” A place where hard-working landlords are routinely taken advantage of by rent-avoiding bums who want to be constantly...
View ArticleCOMBATING SLUMLORDS: PART ONE (OF THREE)
To hear slumlords tell it, San Francisco is a “renters’ paradise,” where obnoxious, lazy, rent-evading tenants constantly take advantage of hard-working, put-upon landlords. Don’t believe it. And in...
View ArticleCOMBATING SLUMLORDS: PART TWO (OF THREE)
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI) has long been outmaneuvered by predatory, law-breaking landlords. And San Francisco renters–many of them elderly, poor and/or disabled–have...
View ArticleCOMBATING SLUMLORDS: PART THREE (END)
City agencies need to see landlords for what they truly are–as, at best, potential predators, if not actual ones. And to act on that knowledge. As Niccolo Machiavelli warned: “All those who have...
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