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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Landlords’ Case Seeking to End Rent Control
October 3rd, 2023 
Awake Goy The Supreme Court will not take up the latest attempt by landlord lobbyists to upend New York City’s 50-year-old rent control laws. But two other related cases may yet make it to the highest court. The court denied the petition for writ of certiorari—a formal request to review a lower court decision—on Monday morning. The […]
Tenants Are Fighting to Influence the Bank That Funds Their Landlords
July 18th, 2023 Awake Goy Tenants in buildings with landlords that took out loans from the failed Signature Bank are demanding a say when the government sells off those loans this summer. For people in buildings with deteriorating conditions, many of whom have long accused Signature of being harmful with its lending, it’s a rare opportunity to push for repairs […]
Berkeley Officials Propose Taxing Landlords for Vacant Properties to Increase Rental Supply
June 15th, 2022 Awake Goy Berkeley, California, hopes voters will approve levying a tax on landlords who have vacant properties in an effort to create more rentals.
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No Comments »Berliners back seizing housing from so-called mega landlords
September 27th, 2021 Awake Goy Berliners have backed one of Europe’s most radical responses to gentrification: seizing property from so-called mega landlords. In a referendum timed to coincide with Germany’s general election on Sunday, locals supported expropriation by 56% to 39%. “It’s nearly impossible to describe this feeling,” Kalle Kunkel, an activist for Berlin’s Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen campaign, told Euronews. […]
New Rental Assistance Available for Los Angeles Renters and Landlords
September 4th, 2021 Awake Goy This week, the City of Los Angeles began offering additional rental assistance for renters and landlords who have been heavily impacted by the pandemic. As California’s eviction moratorium is set to expire on Sept. 30, many landlords and renters in Los Angeles are facing financial hardship. The Housing is Key rental assistance program was launched […]
Renters in Berlin have a radical plan to seize apartments from landlords
May 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: REUTERS/Christian Mang Like many cities around the world, rents in the German capital of Berlin have soared in recent years, doubling in the last decade alone. But unlike many other cities, the people of Berlin are actually doing something about it. First residents persuaded the local authorities to bring in a rent cap that […]
And The Landlords Said ‘Fuck You’
January 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy And The Landlords Said ‘Fuck You’ Above photo: David Rovics/Twitter. In response to the state of Oregon’s latest extension of the partial ban on evictions, the landlord lobby here is suing for 100% of back rent. Portland, OR – I know it is often hard to see, but significant elements of the folks in power […]
Make Corporate Landlords Pay For Housing Crisis
August 19th, 2020 Awake Goy 
By Sofia Lopez and Sara Myklebust, Inequality. August 18, 2020 The Covid-19 crisis has both exposed and exacerbated racial and wealth inequality in the United States. As unemployment skyrockets and tens of millions of Americans struggle with a sudden loss of income, many are unable to pay rents or mortgages and are facing eviction, foreclosure, and […]
COLLEGES AND LANDLORDS ARE CRUSHING MILLENNIALS WITH DEBT
March 31st, 2018 Awake Goy The youngest millennials — Americans born between 1977 to 1995 — graduated college a year ago, but they may soon realize that the initiation into adulthood is a far cry from joining a sorority or fraternity. As if the twin-scourge of soaring student debt and stagnant wages weren’t bad enough, they also pay […]
Tenants March To Stop Giveaways To Wall Street Landlords
July 19th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Margie Mathers, a housing activist with MH Action, speaking at the Tenant March on Washington, July 12, 2017. While Republicans are proposing severe cuts to low-income housing assistance, they are continuing to subsidize Blackstone and other private equity housing profiteers. It was a brutally hot and humid day in the nation’s capital and Margie […]
Florida cops shoot schizophrenic inmate through cell door with bullet similar to flashbang grenade
June 26th, 2016 Awake Goy Matthew Trevino, an Army veteran with a history of mental illness, was having a schizophrenic episode in the Pasco County Jail. When he resisted detention deputies, guards escalated things by shooting him with a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with a Nova round. Newly-released footage from inside Florida’s Pasco County Jail shows the events of August […]
No Charges For Chicago Cop Filmed Shooting Ronald Johnson In The Back – Family Allege “Cover-Up”
December 8th, 2015 Awake Goy The Chicago police department is in the spotlight again after Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said during a press conference on Monday that officer George Hernandez will not face charges despite dash-cam video showing him shoot down a fleeing man in the back. Prosecutors say 25-year-old Ronald “Ronnieman” Johnson left a party at around […]
Posted in World News Tags: Baltimore, court, evicts, landlords, privileges, rent, tenants No Comments »The Marxist Murderers
November 17th, 2015 Awake Goy The jewish supremacists are deliberately destroying all Western countries as they have secretly declared war upon us! They conspired to take control of our nation’s infrastructure through carefully orchestrated acts of treason! They became our bankers, politicians & media owners. Their goal is to genocide the White race & to enslave the entire planet! […]
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