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Support Tenants Rights at Santa Cruz City Council Meeting

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Date:
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Time:
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Event Type:
Meeting
Organizer/Author:
Movement for Housing Justice
Location Details:
Council Chamberts, 809 Center St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

URGENT! COME TO CITY COUNCIL TUESDAY, AUGUST 13 at 7:30 - come early. We're first on the 7:30 Agenda and there will be a presentation from Santa Cruz Tenants Association about the proposed rent registry data collection law.

Support Tenants Rights. Support a rent registry data collection law.
Support SUSTAINED Funding for Tenant Sanctuary legal aid pilot program for city residents.

SPEAK OUT! MAKE SOME NOISE! SHOW UP!

..or nothing will change.
Vice Mayor Cummings may feel that tenants are too quiet for him to take action when the landlords are knocking at his door.
BE THERE and Let Him Know You Care That He Cares - and takes action!

jcummings [at] cityofsantacruz.com

citycouncil [at] cityofsantacruz.com

Tenants, we need your voices at the council meetings as well as via emails - especially to VICE-MAYOR JUSTIN CUMMINGS. He says he will act on our behalf if he receives constant input and many emails from tenants. So better email him right now, let him know your expectations - what you want from him for your vote.

jcummings [at] cityofsantacruz.com

VM CUMMING WILL BE THE NEXT MAYOR!!! ....which means he will be able to SET THE AGENDA. We must exert any influence and pressure that we can - to get our votes' worth. TENANT INFLUENCE IS WIELDED BY SHOWING UP AND BY EMAILING COUNCIL.

jcummings [at] cityofsantacruz.com

What is VM Cummings' position on tenant protections and landlord accountability? He is a pivotal vote. Please ask him to clarify his position and tell him what you expect him to do for tenants.
Added to the calendar on Fri, Aug 9, 2019 3:56PM

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by Cynthia Berger
Thanks for posting this. We need lots of RENTERS to keep showing up at city council meetings again and all the time. Because otherwise, the opposition will always be louder. Having a big presence as a tenant is essential at all city council meetings, or - ask a tenant friend if you can't come. Can their decisions affect you? Yes. Can their decisions make your rent raises even worse? Definitely!!! Can your presence and comments/emails eventually lower your rent? Absolutely!
How? Get involved and find out. It's complex and we are all cogs. Large groups of small non-rich people who commit to working together as a team CAN strategize to *encourage* change for our own benefit when working against small groups of big rich people who always work together in a team against the small, dispensable people.
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