Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. He says he also regularly struggles to reach outlets and faucets. She wrote the piece Can Trump and McConnell get through the 4 steps to seat a Supreme Court justice … Continued. “For many tenants, rent stabilization is the difference between having or not having a place to live in Oakland and in other communities with rent control,” Michael Rawson, director of the Public Interest Law Project, said in a statement.
Plaintiff Mitch Jeserich also uses a wheelchair and has opted to live in a rent-controlled apartment, but that’s come with daily challenges, the suit alleges. A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. By siteadmin. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! The suit comes amid a regional housing crisis that has sent rents across the Bay Area soaring — nearly doubling in Oakland in the last decade to well above $2,000 for a one-bedroom apartment. Jeserich suffers from a bone disorder and has used a wheelchair for 25 years. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich. Smith, who uses a power wheelchair, says his rent has increased 70% since he moved into his disabled-accessible apartment in 2012. More people are struggling to find accessible housing, Betouliere said. "This, Mr. Chairman, is perhaps the negroes’… Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. sued the City of Oakland on behalf of themselves and other Oakland renters that have mobility disabilities. Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay. GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not Today’s episode is about housing with Sean Betouliere and Ian Smith. On the C-SPAN Networks: Mitch Jeserich is an Executive Producer with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Speech. In August 2019, Oaklanders Ian Smith, Sunday Parker, and Mitch Jeserich — all of whom have disabilities and use wheelchairs — sued the city under the Americans with Disabilities Act, after Oakland refused to extend the Jan. 1, 1983, cutoff date for its rent control program or modify it to encompass more modern, accessible housing.
Friday, March 31, 2017, 2:30 pm PDT, KPFA Josh Elwood talks with Mitch Jeserich about President Trump’s attitude toward disability. We hope that this litigation will make Oakland’s rent control program more accessible to tenants with disabilities.”. And while Costa-Hawkins offers protections to some Oakland landlords who want to increase rents to market rates, the filers of the suit say the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, which protects people with disabilities from discrimination, supersedes the state law.
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Mitch Jeserich from a video by Sandy Sanders. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich. Oakland did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Part I: Senator Sherrod Brown on Congress and Financial Aid. His bathroom is too small to accommodate a wheelchair and the design of the kitchen doesn’t allow him full access to his refrigerator. And apartments that are accessible are too new to be covered by the city’s rent control program, which exempts complexes built after 1983. “By choosing to regulate rent increases only on units that are not accessible, the city has allegedly denied plaintiffs meaningful access to the benefit it has chosen to offer.”. Letters and Politics – September 29, 2020. Letters and Politics. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar refused to dismiss the case in a Thursday ruling that found all three renters had adequately stated claims for disability discrimination.
Letters & Politics wMitch Jeserich Letters & Politics with Mitch Jeserich. “What we would be asking for is for the city to modify its program to encompass at least some units of accessible housing. But most apartments built before the country passed laws protecting people with disabilities from discrimination in the early 1990s are not accessible. Listen to Disability Visibility episodes free, on demand.
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The city of Oakland did not return an email seeking comment Thursday. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Rising Oil Prices Divert Wall Street’s Focus From Startling Job Losses. 09.29.20 - 10:00am. necessarily endorsed by the SF Bay Area IMC. by: Mitch Jeserich “You and I just disagree and lets leave it at that,” John McCain yelled at me just outside the Senate chamber. Now, Smith and two other renters are suing Oakland on behalf of others with disabilities for excluding them from the city’s rent control program, demanding changes to the system even if they go against the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, the state law that puts limits on city rent control ordinances. “So this has some interesting implications for other cases in other places.”. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Freedom From Food Addiction – ThanksGluttony, Direct Action Disability Style with Stephanie Thomas of ADAPT, Jenn Peoples: Living in Recovery, Mental Illness, Addiction & Covid-19. That’s how many of our conversations ended when I was a Capitol Hill reporter from 2003-2006. All this week, Mitch Jeserich provided gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Guest: Sonia Shah, science journalist and author of The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move.
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KPFA - Letters and Politics podcast on demand - Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. So while many of his friends and acquaintances lease older places where landlords can’t raise the rent more than a few percentage points any given year, Smith’s rent on a newer, unregulated place has ballooned by more than 70 percent since he moved in in 2012.
Host Mitch Jeserich compares the legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the legacy of Thurgood Marshall and outlines the political battles ahead. Guest: Peter Irons is a political scientist, constitutional historian, civil rights attorney, and former prisoner of conscious, as well as professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, San Diego. All this week, Mitch Jeserich provided gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
“I was fortunate to find an inaccessible rent-stabilized unit that I could work with — more or less — but it’s not always easy, and I worry that I’m only one injury away from not being able to do it at all.”. Jeserich’s rent-controlled apartment is far too small to accommodate his manual wheelchair, impeding his access to the bathroom and the refrigerator in his kitchen.
Many of Ian Smith’s neighbors in Oakland go to bed each evening confident in the knowledge that while they may pay some of the highest rents in the country, those monthly bills aren’t going to skyrocket overnight. OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — Low-income renters whose disabilities may have excluded them from participating in Oakland’s rent-control program got the green light from a federal judge on their lawsuit against the city. All this week, Mitch Jeserich provided gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS. Emily DeRuy covers the coronavirus pandemic and politics for the Bay Area News Group. KPFA FCC Public Files & KPFB FCC Public Files. Pacifica designated agent to receive notice of claimed infringements, David Cay Johnston on Trump’s Taxes and the Debate, Peter Irons on the History of the Supreme Court, Long and Short Term Implications of an Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation, Structural Racism: Breonna and the Grand Jury, In Conversation with Kali Akuno: Organizing in Extreme Times, The Historic Significance of RBG and The Fight Ahead, The Past, Present and Future of Migration: From Plants to Animals and Humans, Wildfires and the Decline of Bird Populations. Had the unit been rent controlled, his rent would have gone up by no more than $233. In August 2019, Oaklanders Ian Smith, Sunday Parker, and Mitch Jeserich — all of whom have disabilities and use wheelchairs — sued the city under the Americans with Disabilities Act, after Oakland refused to extend the Jan. 1, 1983, cutoff date for its rent control program or modify it to encompass more modern, accessible housing. Guest: Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson. Most of Oakland’s disabled-accessible rental units were built after 1983 and are exempt from rent control regulations. Now, he takes a break to talk about his disability and disability politics in general. non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and https://mitchjeserich.com/2016/07/27/the-lesson-of-george-henry-white Jeserich, Beckwith and four others were lifted or pushed away from … The city has not done so, they say. “I used to live in a more accessible apartment, but I had to leave when the rent started to go up faster than I could afford,” Jeserich said in a statement. Plaintiff Mitch Jeserich falls into this latter camp: “I used to live in a more accessible apartment, but I had to leave when the rent started to go up faster than I could afford. Discover our collection of on-line only podcasts! Guest: Caren Morrison is Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University. The suit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, alleges that the city puts people with disabilities “in a discriminatory double-bind.” They can rent an apartment outside rent control protections or live in an inaccessible, potentially dangerous unit covered by rent control provisions. Guest: Robert O. Paxton, the Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Columbia University and author of The Anatomy of Fascism. Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, Photographer: Steve Petteway. Now, he takes a break to talk about his disability and disability politics in general. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich. “In either circumstance, people with disabilities are denied the same opportunity to participate in and benefit from Oakland’s Rent Adjustment Program that the city’s non-disabled tenants enjoy,” the suit says. Jeserich, not only looks at burning political issues, but he often bring guests to talk about history in his popular program Letter and Politics, which airs Monday-Thursday at 10 am on KPFA.