bipartisan discussions with vice president biden continue this week ahead of the of the second deadline. the senate is on break this week. good morning on this tuesday, may 31. we will begin what the housing industry. it is still is owning a home still the american dream? the telephone numbers are on the screen. we have a special line set aside this morning for renters. we want to hear from you as well. let me show you the front page of the open clay usa today. almost 4 million homes have been lost of foreclosures and a last five years, turning many former homes into rentals. of the 100 marjah cities, some of those were irvine, california, which went to 4% we want to get your take on this it is owning a home still the american dream? what do you think about housing policy as well? this story is on the front page of the new york times calls this morning. it says that the giant the desire to own your own home the telephone numbers are on your screen. renters, we w
grievances. i am 32 other residents of a building on leavenworth st., managed by dewolf realty, were subjected to a pass-thru process before the rent stabilization board. 70% of san franciscans are tenants or renters. as a result, if this policy, which is what the stabilization board said it was, is followed, there are a lot more people who are getting this mistreatment. tenants are legally and morally entitled to fair treatment by the rent board. if you look at the mission statement, i have highlighted the appropriate area. to provide fair and even-handed treatment for both tenants and landlords. i also made the statement, not to be inflammatory, that the rent board is correct. as i go through there, i think you are going to see examples that show that. i did not use this term lightly. i went to several dictionaries, got a lot of information, and found they do qualify as corrupt. here is the petition that was filed. if you look at the middle of the petition, you will see hav
provision. it was janet napolitano who talked about the changing nature of the threat and this being one of the most serious times since 9/11. mr. speaker, we must stand together and support those that are on the frontline with these commonsense changes that have already been put into the bill. we are not going over new territory here. what we are doing is allowing those on the frontline to use the tools before them to keep america safe. i urge support for this provision. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman s time has expired. the chair recognizes the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to again bring your attention, mr. speaker, to section 215, and the difficulty with which we in this body and the american people as a whole have with regard to exercising overght over abuse of government authority. an example that i gave earlier, the american library association, confirmed that the federal government went into a library and asked f
community is now in the valley. the latinos are in the bay view and the t.l. well, everybody is in the excelsior who say working family at this point. i think it s good just to recognize that populations shift and change and to make sure that communities are being served. these moms are going to continue the work but i just want to say it s crucial. i was thinking of what to say on the way over. i don t have a timer so i don t know if i ve gone over but a lot of times when we work with our attorney partners or the aclu, they always call us if they have exals of course human rights abuses. i think to myself, well, that says a lot about our program but also a lot about the community we re in, that families are in constant crisis, whether for deportation, i just had a family deported for taking a nail at home depot. or family crisis. a lot of folks are part of the restaurant or hotel industry and that s been in crisis and we see it when people are unemployed and disemployed and
known that. you see the solidarity bobby has helped create in this community. when bobby started with elizabeth alexander, people did not even know latino families lived in the neighborhood. that is the mission district. i remember hearing the stories about bobby dealing with the principles. she is firm and stands up for what she believes. these principles principals, even at the tenderloin school, were not used to monitor-lingual families asserting their rights. people in tenderloin did not know we had these families. there were treated worse than second class citizens until bobby showed up. bobby is humble and does not want to tout her accomplishments. but i think when the parents saw bobby showing that leadership, they became empowered. she showed them it could be done. now she is moving on, they have the power. they are going to hire a replacement, but bobby s model has worked for the entire community. all of san francisco is better because of bobby s years with us. tha