Word: justness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"The primary focus is to see if there are any organizing efforts we can do for [tenants]," she says. "If we just give advice on the phone, that just ends the effort right there. There isn't any continued involvement."
Being unable to answer that question, I am reduced to offering a personal perspective (hence the title of this piece). When I was younger I lived in fear of finding out I was not as smart as I hoped I was. SAT's and IQ tests made me very uneasy...
"Really, we're about organizing and advocating for people that happen to have less money than other people," says Bill Cavellini, a member of EFZ's Steering Committee since its founding. "We're not just helping one person at a time."
EFZ has been active in the community for more than 10 years. And their efforts--which have included rallies and governmental lobbying--often start with just a phone call.
Rent control provided two important protections for tenants, according to Cavellini. It slowed rent increases, limiting landlord profit margins, and provided for a "just-cause" eviction process so tenants could not be evicted without reason.