Ralph Silverman News Today

That its come up, i would suggest that the committee or the proposer to the committee is rushing their fences somewhat in putting this on for today with a referral to the full board tomorrow and that this matter would benefit from some consideration both at the rent Board Commission and further discussion amongst various stake holders. This has not been on the agenda of the rent board at all to my knowledge. I go to meetings, i get an agenda, its never been brought up, its never been mentioned i...

About Building Code violations, around mice, bedbugs and when they speak up they are yelled at, they are asked to leave. There are several things that arent in any code right now that makes people not want to stand up and when they do stand up theres nothing that can be done for them around those issues and often people do leave. And when were looking at things like bed bugs when somebody leaves and the landlord rents it to somebody else, it actually perpetuates a whole series of problems. I sta...

About harassment theyve told me they dont deal with that. I have worked with a number of different organizations and i try to be respectful but they are all really overwhelmed by the, i think its some of the comments that there were not a lot of cases of harassment are misinformed. I have run into a lot of other people who are experiencing this and i think that the economic realities of the rents being very high create an incentive for the landlords to harass people, especially those with disabi...

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