Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Tenant demands that Marin Supervisors lower property values in unincorporated Marin (Marinwood)
David Schoenbraun, a self described "aging tenant" speaks at the housing workshop held at the Marin County Board of Supervisors on August 1, 2017. The supervisors are considering sweeping regulations to limit rights of landlords to evict, raise rents and will lower property values in unincorporated Marin County. Mr. Schoenbraun thinks that only "bad landlords" will be affected and claims it is for the "public interest".
Monday, August 7, 2017
I Paid $217.00 Rent 2 Bed 2 Bath & Why I Moved Out
One woman's experience living in low income housing and why it sucked. Privately owned low income units have very stringent lease terms unimaginable to renters in "market rate" apartments. This woman decides that it simply isn't worth it.
Outpouring Of Support For Vendor After Hipster Topples Over His Food Cart
Congratulations to the street vendor who kept his cool while a hipster jerk destroys his food cart. Tensions are boiling in immigrant communities over the clash between intolerant newcomers and the established residents.
Sunday, August 6, 2017
Landlord yells at Marin County Supervisors over affordable housing.
Dave Coury, landlord in Marin County makes a "full throated" appeal to Marin County Supervisor for tenant reforms. Never a shrinking violet, he is a towering man frequently seen at Marin county meetings calling for the destruction of single family zoning, abolishment of Prop 13, just cause evictions, more section 8 and rent control. One wonders why he spends his time with advocacy at public meetings for more taxes and government controls when he could easily devote his wealth to direct charity.
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| Virtue Signalling with taxpayer money is cheaper than personal charity. |
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Friday, August 4, 2017
How I Overcame Homelessness Twice to Become a Billionaire | John Paul DeJoria
John Paul Dejoria has had a rough ride to the top. Yet being homeless twice and being abandoned by his wife early on didn't shake his drive to make it in this word, and he's managed to turn an admittedly difficult hand into a royal flush. These days he's a billionaire several times over with a successful Paul Mitchell haircare line and even a founding stake in Patron tequila brand. So how did he maintain motivation? He remembered giving two dimes to the Salvation Army as a boy, and how his mother told him that those dimes add up and can really help people. This lesson directly helped him overcome a period early in his career where he was collecting bottle caps to get money to eat.
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Transcript: A lot of people ask how I got into donating to various causes, and how I got involved in even homelessness along the way, and popped out of it—well it's a very interesting story. My mom has a lot to do with it.
At six years old we didn't have any money; there was my mother, my brother and I. We had a deadbeat dad; left us before we were two, but she took us at Christmas-time to downtown Los Angeles. We had little cars going around in circles, it was pretty cool, and decorations in the window.
She gave my brother and I a dime and told us, "Boys whole half of it each, give it to the man ringing the bell in the bucket." We put it in this bucket, we said, "Mom, why did we give that man a dime? That's like two soda pops." This is 1951, two soda pops, three candy bars.
And mom said, "Boys, that's the Salvation Army. They take care of people that have no place to live and no food. And we don't have a lot of money, but we can afford a dime this year. Boys, always remember in life: give a little something to those in need, they'll always be somebody that's not as well-off as you are. No matter where you are or how far down you are, try and help someone along the way." It stuck with me.
The first time I was homeless I was 22-and-a-half years older and I had a two-and-a-half year old son. I was working as the Master of Ceremonies at the Second Annual Sports Vacation Recreational Vehicle Show and I had a check coming in at the end of the week.
Well, I came home and I drove our one car up to where we lived and as I was getting out of the car and going up towards our apartment door my wife—we were very young, we got married at 20 and 19 years old—my wife was coming down the stairs and she said, "I'm going to storage," and she took the keys. By the time I got through the door I saw my little boy, two and a half years old, kind of just sitting there on top of a pile of clothes with a note that basically said, “I can't handle being a mom anymore. He'll be much better off with you. Good luck.”
Now, what I didn't know also was that she had planned this for a few months. She had not paid the rent for a few months and kept the money and I didn't know that. She wiped out what little we had in the savings account in the bank and took the only car we had. So unbeknownst to me, two days later I was evicted—completely evicted, power shut off, the landlord—she just really timed this one. And I had this little kid with me, two-and-a-half years old, and now I had to be mom and dad and that was really a bummer, I had no car! So I ended up borrowing a 1951 Cadillac with a broken water pump from someone that was very, very dear, had to put water in it every four hours, and that's kind of how we got going.
Second time I was homeless is when I started John Paul Mitchell Systems. I knew I needed $500,000 to start John Paul Mitchell Systems, had to have that. So we had the backer lined up, I had a good job at the time, lived in a nice house, and I left everything I had because $500,000 was coming down the street, I was going to start a company. So I left it all behind. I left what money I had with my wife—we weren't getting along well at all—and the best car. And I took the older car—it was a good one but an older car, it ran good—down the hill to get my money.
The Power of One | John Paul DeJoria | TEDxLA
In this talk, John Paul DeJoria inspires individuals to stop imagining and start doing. There's strength in masses, but the masses are made up of individuals. Don't wait for the masses to take action, be confident in your own power and act on it. Adjust your mindset to know you have the ability to be the change in the world.
John Paul DeJoria, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, John Paul Mitchell Systems and The Patrón Spirits Company, is a first-generation American turned entrepreneur, philanthropist and pillar of the business community. He has struggled against the odds not only to achieve success, but to share his success with others, always living his motto: “Success unshared is failure.”
In 2011, John Paul signed Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s “The Giving Pledge” as a formal promise to continue giving back. The same year, he established JP’s Peace, Love & Happiness Foundation as a hub for his charitable investments, which support the core values of his companies: sustainability, social responsibility and animal-friendliness.
Heminger, "We (sort of ) told the truth to Brisbane about local control"
Steve Heminger, Executive Director of MTC and ABAG speak at the CASA meeting on July 20, 2017. He cites the problem they are having with small cities like Brisbane California who objects to the regional directive to build 4400 homes on a brownfield site that has toxic waste and is unsuitable for residential development . It will TRIPLE the size of their community of 4100 residents. California mandates on 236 units of housing. The director convenes this special group of developers and housing lobby to devise plans to shape development law and policies across 101 cities and nine Bay Area counties.
Thursday, August 3, 2017
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