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Supervisors depart
tenants within the lurch
Re: “Tenants say landlords neglecting dingy models” (Web page A1, Aug. 9).
A report detailing unlawful housing circumstances for as much as one-third of renters in unincorporated Alameda County illustrates the necessity to defend tenants from eviction for reporting landlord violations.
In December 2022, the Board of Supervisors authorised the primary studying of three tenant safety ordinances: the Rental Housing Registration ordinance, the Simply Trigger ordinance and the Honest Likelihood ordinance. Sadly, in February of this 12 months, all three ordinances failed a essential second studying and had been defeated.
The Simply Trigger ordinance would have prevented landlords from evicting tenants for submitting complaints of unlawful and unsafe housing circumstances. Landlords must supply a authorized motive for the eviction and tenants who file complaints in opposition to unlawful housing circumstances can be protected against retaliation. Siding with the owner foyer, Supervisors Nate Miley, David Haubert and Lena Tam wouldn’t vote for such a primary safety.
Bob Britton
Castro Valley
Deaf tradition at stake
in contract negotiations
I’m a former instructor of deaf college students, and I’m extraordinarily involved about one of many world’s prime 5 deaf faculties, in Fremont, as a result of the pay fee is so low that workers are sleeping of their automobiles, commuting lengthy distances, renting rooms of their houses or working a number of jobs. These are uniquely expert, passionate people, as I noticed first-hand, and their influence on deaf college students is lifelong and great.
Proper now, SEIU Native 1000 is in fierce negotiations with the state. It’s asking for an unprecedented 30% pay increase over three years. And it’s being supplied an insulting 2% as an alternative, in one of many nation’s most costly areas to stay.
The requests will not be new however ignored. What individuals might not perceive is that the deaf faculty has misplaced huge numbers of each workers and college students, and we’re prone to nothing lower than deaf cultural genocide.
Rachel Zemach
Santa Rosa
Western contributions
formed our historical past
Re: “American training stuffed with fabled Eurocentric worldview” (Web page A7, Aug. 8).
In his try to spin Western historical past to conform along with his warped understanding of it, David Redman omits and distorts so many essential information that he creates his personal fables.
For instance, Redman would really like us to assume the Koreans invented the printing press primarily based on their use of movable metallic sort. However no matter they invented wasn’t a sensible printing press, didn’t make it out of Korea, and had no lasting influence. It was Gutenberg who invented a “excessive pace” (on the time) printing press that clearly had profound and lasting impacts all through the world. Redman falsely implies the steam engine was invented by the Egyptians 2,000 years in the past. What they invented was nearer to a teapot whistle — nothing remotely just like the engine Watt perfected. And whereas Edison didn’t invent the sunshine bulb, he invented a commercially profitable one, and for that, he rightly deserves immense credit score.
Dick Patterson
El Cerrito
We should confront
conservative alienation
Re: “What if the individuals who oppose Trump are actually the unhealthy guys?” (Web page A6, Aug. 4).
David Brooks is right in arguing that Donald Trump is supported by individuals alienated by sure insurance policies in trendy America, however whereas there are a plethora of causes for this alienation, Brooks is lifeless flawed in figuring out causes as some ill-defined “educated” and “skilled” class, and an equally ill-defined “meritocracy” system.
On the core of “conservative” alienation are insurance policies that both disadvantaged total communities of safe jobs or “progressive” narratives that painting broad segments of American society with contempt. It’s transport jobs and demanding know-how outdoors the U.S., and billionaire hedge fund managers. It is usually conceitedness like the type that led Hilary Clinton to not even marketing campaign within the Midwest states and price her the election, uncontrolled borders, and the incessant portrayal of all White America as racist.
I’m appalled by individuals who tolerate Trump, however we is not going to regain their allegiance to reality and democracy till we precisely acknowledge their causes.
Eliot Hudson
Lafayette
