A Communities Victory
By: Heidy
On July 7th there was a protest celebration in San Francisco at 521 Natoma. The celebration was about the victory of the family not losing their home. “To celebrate victory for the family stability in Natoma.” was their goal for the celebration said, Rudy Corpus from the United Playaz. The fight was important because “keep families in Natoma. The people in this neighborhood stabilized” Explained Rudy Corpus.
The building was sold and had received a new landlord and he issued a three day eviction notice, so the families living in the building decided to get together with the community and take the problem to court. Evan Matteo the landlord with big tree properties tried to kick out the family.
The Filipino community members are supporting 'Just Cause' Eviction Protections 2.0. If it passes it could benefit the tenants in many ways. For example They need to discourage unnecessary evictions and stabilize rent increases.
Tina Shaft from the migrante organizers community was there speaking on the celebration. She made a very important point, “San Francisco needs to recognize that they can't live without the working class people.” The city can't progress with only the rich people.
I also learned about Tenants In Common. It describes a co-ownership where each owner is free to choose who will inherit his/her interest. But in practice, tenancy in common, tenants in common, and TIC, are commonly used to describe narrow sub-categories of the wide TIC world, leaving the uninitiated confused about how the various types of TICs relate to each other
I am very happy for the family and the Filipino community for keeping their people in San Francisco. It really is a communities victory.