CLCV: No on 98 and Yes on 99: Rent Control effects

CLCV: No on 98 and Yes on 99: Rent Control effects: “Save Rent Control!
Why Renters Should OPPOSE Prop. 98: The Landlords’ Hidden Agendas Scheme to Eliminate Rent Control and Renter-Protections

Wealthy apartment and mobile home park owners are spending millions on a deceptive campaign to pass Prop. 98 for their own financial gain. These landlords want voters to believe that Prop. 98 – dubbed the Hidden Agendas Scheme – is about eminent domain. But their hidden agenda is to eliminate rent control so they can make hundreds of millions of dollars by raising rents on seniors and working families.”

Mysterygrimms Thoughts: Well peeps! Looks like their trying to force rent control upon California residents with Prop 98. Unfortunately there has been no “Rent Control” in the state of Massachusetts for some time now. 7 years or so.

Gentrification

Gentrification is a real problem in our communities…. and communities around the 50 states. It goes on in many impoverished neighborhoods, in urban cities and towns. Basically… it’s all the construction you seem to see, everywhere you go, where they convert projects and run down apartments into nice townhouses and condo’s.

It’s good for rich and comfortable middle class folks, and bad for poor folks, folks who mostly fall into the African American, Hispanic race category (The Minority). I found this interesting article or definition in detail on what Gentrification means and where the term was created from. Read the article or term below. Link is provided below as well (copy and paste works wonders).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification

“Gentrification, or urban gentrification, is a phenomenon in which low-cost, physically deteriorated neighborhoods undergo physical renovation and an increase in property values, along with an influx of wealthier residents who may displace the prior residents”.