AIDS Housing Alliance/ San Francisco

Fighting for Your Rights

Housing is the #1 unmet need of people with AIDS. This is not an accident. There is a reason why 60-75% of the members we see each month are homeless. We are perhaps the single largest group of people targeted for eviction by TIC speculators. We don't have enough income to find a new place to live. Not enough housing is being built that is affordable to people who make under $1000 per month. What little that is available hasn't been effectively marketed to our communities.

Since housing is our #1 unmet need, it needs to be our #1 political need. We need to make sure that we are the ones at the table, making the decisions that affect our lives. We cannot trust other organizations that are not run by disabled people with AIDS to stand up for justice and for our needs. It is not in the nature of social service organizations to do so. They are too restricted by funding needs and will only advocate for increased funding for their specific programs. This is the nature of things.

YES on H provides tenants with relocation benefits for no-fault evictions. Landlords will be required to pay each tenant $4,500 for evictions like Owner Move In, Demolition, Capital Improvements or Substantial Rehabilitation. Plus, tenants living with children or who are senior or disabled will get an additional $3,000. This will help ease the pain of evictions and help tenants find new housing.

YES on H will stop evictions. Many landlords give “bluff” eviction notices which they have no intention of following up on. They’ll give an owner move in eviction notice, for example, even if they have no intent of moving in, hoping that tenants will just leave and then the landlord can re-rent the apartment for more rent. Prop H requires landlords to pay half of the relocation benefits with the eviction notice, Since there’s an average of 2 tenants per apartment, it will cost over $5,000 to issue most eviction notices. Prop H will make it too costly to issue these bluff notices.

TENANT GROUPS SUPPORT YES on H
YES on H is endorsed by all of the city’s tenant organizations, including the AIDS Housing Alliance/SF.

YES on H IS ENDORSED BY
SF Tenants Union•SF Labor Council•SF Democratic Party•SF Green Party•Senior Action Network•Sup. Tom Ammiano•Sup. Chris Daly•Sup. Ross Mirkarimi•Sup. Jake McGoldrick•Sup. Aaron Peskin•Assembly Member Mark Leno•State Senator Carole Migden•Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club•Alice B Toklas Democratic Club•Mike Casey, President UNITE HERE Local 2•SEIU Local 790•Tenderloin Housing Clinic•St. Peter’s Housing Committee•AIDS Housing Alliance•Housing Rights Committee•Eviction Defense Collaborative•Senior Housing Action Committee