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LUMBERJACK WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2018 | VOL. 133 NO. 10
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RALLY FOR RENT CONTROL
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Photo by Tony Wallin Raini Kellogg, political science major, participates in a rally to gain support for Proposition 10 on Oct. 23 in Arcata. Proposition 10 would repeal the Contra Hawkins Act and allow for future rent control to be voted on.
Green Party advocates for county rent control host rally for Proposition 10 by Alex Harris Kelsey Reedy, Humboldt State alumna and chairman of the Green Party, is an unexpected candidate for someone affected by homelessness. She is one of many in Humboldt county facing this prevailing issue. “I worked full-time and couldn’t afford housing,” Reedy said. “Even when I was a student I had to live in McKinleyville or Eureka because I couldn’t afford housing in Arcata.” Reedy works full time for multiple non-profits in the Humboldt area and is a part of the many community members and students affected by high rental prices. Reedy said those who have housing now might be affected by any extra bill or cost, which can undermine the situation and result in losing housing altogether. “I was just barely making rent before,” Reedy said. “So now that I had another bill I couldn’t afford rent anymore.” On Oct. 24 the Green Party and Humboldt chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation held a rally near the Humboldt Property Management building in support of
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What this is doing is just giving municipal governments the opportunity to take a look at it and make decision for themselves.”
Humboldt State University’s Student Success Alliance is sitting on base funding of $1.4 million from the Graduation Initiative 2025. Created by the California State University, G.I. 2025’s purpose is to increase graduation rates in the CSU system. On Oct. 25, HSU Associated Students held a forum asking for student’s input on how the $1.4 million should be spent. AS graduate representative Maddie Halloran said she attended the forum to get a better understanding on what the G.I. 2025 is. “The GI 2025 is distributed and allocated to 23 CSU’s,” Halloran said. “The money can be used for many things, like to fund programs here at HSU.” The forum began with a presentation of what the G.I. 2025 was, and ended with a discussion from students and faculty deciding what the remaining $1.4 million will be used on. There were six categories the money can be distributed toward: academic preparation, SEE MILLION n PAGE 3
Sheriff talks Measure K Centro Del Pueblo holds forum between Sheriff and community by Tony Wallin
that will allow us to build more (affordable) housing,” Rydberg said. “We can see they are not building more low income housing and are building more luxury condos and apartments.” Rydberg explained how he thought that gentrification compounded with income inequality has made situations in different counties across the state similar in regard to the rental housing crisis. Rydberg says this is why we need to have local counties regulate the tenant and rental
Humboldt County’s Sheriff William Honsal remained the only one who openly opposed Measure K after leading advocates held an open forum to discuss immigration and public safety. “If you pass Measure K it will give a false sense of security,” Honsal said. Elizabeth Phillips of Centro Del Pueblo, a non-profit organization that first proposed the idea of a sanctuary measure for Humboldt County, mediated the forum of five panelists on Oct. 24. Some of the panelists included the author of Measure K, Erik Kirk, as well as Humboldt State University students Anayeli Auza and Monica Garcia. The community audience and panelists support the ballot measure, with the exception
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— Erick Rydberg Mckinleyville Community Services District Board of Directors Candidate Proposition 10. Prop 10 is a California proposition that will allow county boards to regulate and implement rent control. This is a direct challenge to the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995. Although there are many complicated stipulations within the law, one of the main supporting arguments of the Costa-Hawkins act was that it would increase the incentives for developers to build more housing, thus flooding the housing market. This, in theory, was supposed to make renting cheaper as
there would be more competition. Local community advocate and candidate for McKinleyville’s Community Services District Board of Directors Eric Rydberg, feels that is simply not true. “Since (the passing of Costa Hawkins Act) we have seen that California’s housing problems can be sourced to it,” Rydberg said. Rydberg said the Costa-Hawkins Act was billed by Democrat and Republican politicians as something that it was not. “They sold it as something
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