proposed by the Congress of the People January 12, 2019, San Francisco
Group discussion and number in attendance: 40
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• Bring rent control to subsidized housing.
• Lower affordability rates to 30% of AMI. Lower affordability rates with subsidized housing to 30% of income regardless of any level of income (including zero).
• Implement a Right to Rest Act to improve the livability of the state of homelessness: right to move freely and rest in public spaces, eat or accept food, occupy a legally parked vehicle, reasonable privacy.
• Enact a moratorium on market rate development until community housing initiatives have made adequate progress.
• Airbnb restrictions, including a limit on the maximum number of different renters per year. Landlords of long-term housing may not convert to Airbnb (or the equivalent) during a vacancy caused by the following reasons: illegal evictions, destruction of property (e.g. fire damage), change in ownership or system of ownership, reclassification of housing type.
• Government can’t sell public land without the consent of the people.
• Stop/eliminate business improvement districts.
• Increase legal funding to represent evictions and citations.
• Bring back half way house and lodges.
• Facilitate Conversion of empty buildings to community control/housing.
• Support for community land trust.
• Reform of the small sites program to make it more co-op and land trust friendly. Reduce rents in small sites projects.
• Anti-eviction, gentrification and displacement component to the heritage districts.
• Anti-speculation tax.
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