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Even in the rarified air of ultra-luxury vehicles, few combine the performance, pampering and prestige found in the 2013 Bentley Continental. The Continental is available as a coupe (GT), convertible (GTC), and sedan (Flying Spur), with Speed variants of each offering more of just that. While the big sedan is as distinguished as the 2-door Continental counterparts, 2013 marks its last year in current guise ahead of an all-new 2014 Flying Spur model. As praiseworthy as the sedan is, it's the coupe and convertible that really steal the show in the Continental lineup with their hulking excess. With thundering 8- and 12-cylinder engines and immaculate interiors, these handmade British automobiles more than hold their own against rivals from Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin and Maserati among the world's .01 percenters.You'll Like This Car If...
If potent performance is just as important to you as interior opulence, it doesn't get much better than a Bentley. The Continental's eloquent interior speaks of the finest British coachwork, while the vehicle's mechanicals feature some of the best German engineering.You May Not Like This Car If...
You don't need to shell out $200,000 for Continental-like luxury and performance. You can spend much less money and have access to far larger dealer networks with a Mercedes-Benz S-, CL- or CLS-Class, BMW 6 or 7 Series, or even an S5 or S8 from Audi, which shares Bentley's VW corporate parent.What's New for 2013
Bentley Continental GT coupe and convertible models now have an 8-speed ZF transmission that helps attain (slightly) better fuel economy, while the 2013 Flying Spur sedan continues with a 6-speed transmission before the vehicle's 2014 revamp. The GT Speed coupe and convertible performance variants boast additional power, with their 12-cylinder engines tuned to unleash 616 horsepower.Driving It Driving Impressions
All 2013 Bentley Continental models have the power to blast their considerable mass from 0 to 60 mph in the 4-second range and hit top speeds of nearly 200 mph or, in the case of Speed models, beyond. These are sports-car figures, but Continentals are not necessarily sports cars. A hushed, comfortable ride takes priority over racecar-like agility. Driving a Continental is meant to be an experience in elegant motoring. These cars just happen to also have the means to blow past lesser cars – which is most every car – when duty calls. The Continental's all-wheel-drive system provides excellent grip in slippery conditions, and the newer 8-speed ZF automatic transmission is smooth, especially in sport mode. On open roads, the 2013 Bentley Continental is bliss. Parking lots are another matter, especially for the coupe models and convertibles with the top raised. These cars' beautifully sloped roofs compromise rear visibility, which can make backing up your $200,000 vehicle dicey. Spend extra and get the rearview camera.Favorite Features
Unless you're an audiophile, Naim may not be a familiar name to you. After hearing what this British audio brand serves up in its components tailored for Bentley vehicles, you'll never forget it. These available ultra-premium sound systems turn the cabin into an auditorium for musical bliss.
Every knob, every surface and, well, just about everything you come into contact with in a Bentley Continental speaks a tactile language all its own. It's a language of nobility and opulence. For proof, nothing more is needed than a press of the sturdy metal ventilation buttons.
If you've ever wondered what sets a $200,000 vehicle apart from a $20,000 vehicle, step inside a 2013 Bentley Continental. The fit and finish are nearly without peer. The interior is leather, of course. But it's not just any leather. Only the finest, most premium and most blemish-free hides are selected. Metal and wood abound. Everything breathes quality, from the Breitling analog clock in the center stack to the diamond-pattern hide on the interior door panels. The two rear seats in the GT and GTC are tight for adults. The Flying Spur's bench offers more room and heating/massaging function for the outer seats, just like those in front, and can be configured with two individual seats.Exterior
Some cars are described as having "presence," an essence that exceeds mere physical size. The 2013 Bentley Continental abounds in it. Even the Bentley GT coupe and GTC convertible, at less than 190 inches in length – slightly shorter than a Honda Accord sedan – possess this trait. These two are the real lookers of the Continental lineup with their muscular curves that run front to back, defined best in their exaggerated rear haunches where the sloping roof and sides intersect. The Flying Spur sedan shares the big quad headlights up front but is statelier and much longer overall. At over 208 inches in length, this is not a small car by any means.Notable Standard Equipment
Needless to say, every Bentley is exceedingly well equipped. Some of the more prominent features include a high-resolution touchscreen command center with navigation, massive 20-inch wheels, bi-xenon projector headlights, an 8-speaker sound system, and a power trunk (or "boot," as it's called across the Pond). GTC convertibles have a power-operated 4-layer insulated roof. Speed models have a more powerful version of Bentley's already-potent 12-cylinder engine. Though parking sensors are standard, surprisingly, a rear-view camera is not. That's a shame on a car costing as much as a house, and is a feature highly advised especially on 2-door models with their compromised rear visibility.Notable Optional Equipment
Aside from the much-advised rearview camera, other options of note include the premium Naim audio system, an iPod interface, heated steering wheel, radar-based adaptive cruise control, carbon-ceramic brakes, and lambswool rugs. GT and GTC models can be equipped with 21-inch alloy wheels. We're quite fond of the electronically adjustable neck warmer in the convertible models, perfect for those cool nights when you want to cruise top down under starry skies.Under the Hood
Power for all 2013 Bentley Continentals, save the GT V8 and GTC V8, comes from a twin-turbocharged W12 engine mated to either a 6-speed or 8-speed ZF automatic transmission. The twin-turbocharged V8 is a powerhouse in its own right, making 500 horsepower and offering improved fuel economy compared with the 12-cylinder engines. All Bentley Continentals feature all-wheel drive, which enhances traction. The 8-speed transmission found in the fresher GT and GTC models helps fuel economy, but every model except the V8 Continental GT coupe is still subject to a gas guzzler tax. The Continental is also E85-compatible.
2013 Bentley Continental GT and GTC V8
4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8
500 horsepower @ 6,000 rpm
487 lb-ft of torque @ 1,700 rpm
EPA city/high fuel economy: 15/24 mpg (GT), 14/24 mpg (GTC)
2013 Bentley Continental GT and GTC
6.0-liter twin-turbocharged W12
567 horsepower @ 6,000 rpm
516 lb-ft of torque @ 1,700 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 13/20 mpg (GT), 12/20 mpg (GTC)
2013 Bentley Continental GT Speed and GTC Speed
6.0-liter twin-turbocharged W12
616 horsepower @ 6,000 rpm
590 lb-ft of torque @ 1,700 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 13/20 mpg (GT) 12/20 mpg (GTC)
2013 Bentley Continental Flying Spur
6.0-liter twin-turbocharged W12
552 horsepower @ 6,100 rpm
479 lb-ft of torque @ 1,600-6,100 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 11/19 mpg
2013 Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed
6.0-liter twin-turbocharged W12
600 horsepower @ 6,000 rpm
553 lb-ft of torque @ 1,700-5,600 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 10/17 mpg
Regardless of which 2013 Bentley Continental you choose, be prepared to write a sizable check. The least expensive model in the 2013 Continental line – the GT V8 – has a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of just under $177,000. The GTC V8 convertible starts at over $194,000, and the Flying Spur sedan at around $187,000. The higher-powered Speed version of each adds tens of thousands of dollars. Options can also easily add tens of thousands of dollars, with some single packages costing as much as a new economy car. At these prices the Bentley Continental is less expensive than the Rolls-Royce Ghost, which starts around $260,000, but higher than just about everything else in it class except some AMG performance editions of the Mercedes-Benz CL-Class and S-Class models. Normally we'd suggest you take a hard look at the Fair Purchase Price before buying, but we doubt many buyers will be haggling when it comes to their Continental. As such a niche vehicle, precise resale values are difficult to predict for the 2013 Bentley Continental.
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Inward looking has its value when we do self-examination for the purpose of improving, however, inwardness in the local congregation is suffocating. The heartbeat of the church is carrying out the instructions of Jesus to "... Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation." (Mark 16:15). For this to become a reality each individual disciple of Christ, and the church collectively must feel driven to fulfill the command of Jesus. Each child of God makes up, "... an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people f or God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." (l Peter 2:9). Carl Mitchell has aptly written in his yet unpublished book, World Christian, "The priesthood of all believers is the solution.. .the only possible solution...to the problem of world evangelism (l Peter 2:1-12). If the Church is not rescued from the idea that a small group of highly trained experts are to do the work of the Church, it will never be able to fulfill the Lord's "Great Commission." As the Apostle Paul wrote to the Church at Ephesus, church growth can only occur when each body part fulfills its function (Ephesians 4:16). A "paraplegic" church will not be adequate to the task!"
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One second San Diego native Cameron Abel was trying to dislodge her inner tube from a pile of rocks in a shallow, serpentine part of the Animas River about one mile south of Trimble Lane. The next second she was gone.
Her baffled family members searched frantically, thinking she was trapped by an eddy.
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The 25-foot-long pipe Abel encountered is one of five adjacent steel culverts, each three feet in diameter, that span half of the Animas River on the property of James and Hannelore Hanks. The Hankses own land on both sides of the river and use the culverts as the base of a low-water crossing, made of concrete chunks and gravel, to reach the east bank on tractor.
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The culverts are built to code and in compliance with all federal and county floodplain regulations, according to Butch Knowlton, director of the Office of Emergency Management in La Plata County.
For Abel, her family's float trip started out familiar and ordinary: the lazy river current, willow trees, boulders exposed by the late-summer's low flow.
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Each night, the editorial noted, countless bats consume great quantities of insects, including many that attack farm crops. A team of scientists previously calculated how much more money cotton farmers in one region of south-central Texas would spend on pesticides if bats weren't present, The Times reported. That study concluded that bats save cotton farmers between $12 and $173 an acre annually.
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TULSA, Okla. — A mental competency exam was ordered Wednesday for an 18-year-old man charged with plotting to shoot fellow students and set off bombs at Bartlesville High School last year after luring them into the school's auditorium.
Washington County District Judge Curtis DeLapp ordered the exam for Sammie Eaglebear Chavez, who police say tried to recruit classmates to help in his shooting plan and threatened to kill those who didn't join him.A spokeswoman at the county court clerk's office said arraignment is set for May.
Chavez was arrested on Dec. 14, hours before a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
Chavez's mother has said she doesn't believe her son would've carried out such an attack, and that he suffers from depression and post- traumatic stress disorder, among other ailments, and had been treated at mental health facilities.
She also told the Tulsa World in December that she received a text message from her son two days before his arrest, telling her that he wanted to "shoot up" the high school because he suspected some students were talking about him behind his back.
Messages seeking comment from Chavez's attorney and county prosecutors were not immediately returned Wednesday. A phone number for Chavez was not working.
Police said an assistant principal at the high school contacted them after a student said Chavez "tried to recruit other students to assist him with carrying out a plan to lure students into the school auditorium where he planned to begin shooting them after chaining the doors shut," an affidavit states.
The affidavit also said Chavez told students he wanted to place bombs by the doors and set them off when the police arrived, killing them as they entered the building.
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WATERVILLE, Maine --- Christine Clancy, who helped the Colby College women's basketball program to its best year in school history as an assistant coach this past season, was named as the team's interim head coach on Tuesday by Colby Athletics Director Marcella Zalot.
Clancy is the 10th head coach since the women's basketball program was started in 1968. She takes over for Lori Gear McBride, who was named the head women's basketball coach at the University of Vermont on Saturday. Clancy was an assistant coach under Gear McBride the past two seasons.
"I'm really excited for this opportunity. It's really a dream job for me," said Clancy, who is a native of Yarmouth Maine. "It's going to be great to lead this group of players. They are so much fun to work with and they work so hard."
Colby, which returns nine of the 11 players on last year's roster, set a program record for wins in a season at 24-5. The Mules made the New England Small College Athletic Conference title game and the NCAA tourney for the first time. Colby is 37-17 in the two years Clancy has been an assistant.
"I'm pleased and excited that Christine has accepted the offer to coach the women's basketball team for the upcoming season," Zalot said. "We have a talented and dynamic team returning and I am confident in Christine's ability to lead the program and continue the success that was established last season."
Clancy, after graduating from Yarmouth High School, earned her bachelor's degree in 2006 from Brandeis University. She was a University Athletic Association (UAA) first team selection in 2006 and was on the second team after her junior year. Clancy, a captain her senior year, also made the UAA All-Academic Team from 2003 to 2006.
Clancy played at Brandeis under head coach Carol Simon, a 1986 Colby graduate. Simon just finished her 23rd year at Brandeis and still keeps in touch with Clancy.
"She has been incredibly supportive in helping me along when I decided I wanted to get into coaching," Clancy said. "In my mind, the top two conferences in the country are the UAA and the NESCAC for women's basketball. It was a great experience playing in that league."
Brandeis had a 78-25 record in Clancy's four years and she ranks in the top 10 all-time for the Judges in scoring (971), rebounding (572), and free-throw percentage (.791, 277-for-350).
Clancy moved on to Smith College in 2007 and was an assistant basketball coach and earned her master's degree in Sports and Exercise Studies. She participated in the Exercise and Sports Studies Teaching Fellow, a program designed for women wanting to get into coaching. Samantha Allen, who played the past two years for the Mules under Gear McBride and Clancy, will participate in the program this fall.
Clancy received the Colby assistant job in July 2008 and quickly made an impact with the Mules. She was responsible for training Colby's post players among her many duties. Clancy also oversaw and directed the in-season conditioning and weight training program for the team.
The leadership in the weight room paid off this past year. Colby ranked sixth in the country (were as high as third) and led the NESCAC in rebounding margin (plus-10.1). The Mules also were first in the league in defensive rebounding (29.07 per game).
"We always wanted to be a strong defensive team and a great rebounding team," Clancy said. "You can work on the skill of rebounding, but a lot of it is creating the mind-set that we are a great rebounding team. Being high in the national stats for rebounding became a source of pride for them. The players looked at our rebounding margin after games."
Clancy's first order of business will be to find a replacement for herself as assistant coach. She gets her first look as head coach of the 2010-11 Mules when practice begins on November 1.
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Everyone knows that kids can start talking at different times. But I was very worried when my daughter Jahnice reached two-and-a-half years and still was only producing two sounds, "da" and "huh".
Jahnice could understand what she was hearing but just couldn't speak, so she often ended up having to point at the things she wanted. Seeing her communicate this way was heartbreaking.
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In 2006 The National Law Journal named Wells "Lawyer of the Year" and over the years has repeatedly selected him as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America and as one of America's top white-collar criminal defense lawyers. Wells has also represented numerous corporate executives and corporations in jury trials, grand jury investigations, and before the SEC. Wells also has extensive experience in representing major corporations in massive class action litigation. He previously served on the board of directors of CIT Corporation, where he was a member of its Audit Committee.
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Precinct, touted by a couple of Sierra veterans as the spiritual successor to Police Quest, has been indefinitely shelved after its crowdfunding campaign failed to draw sufficient interest.3
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Sierra veterans Jim Walls and Robert Lindsley have announced Precinct, a spiritual successor to the Police Quest series, has landed on Kickstarter.14
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Sales galore are happening this weekend through the usual PC outlets Steam, Get Games, GoG, and many others. Some of these are rather cheap: Battlefield 3 is on sale for $10; Skyrim can be yours for $27; Defcon is a whopping 37¢; Legend of Grimrock is $7.49; both Alan Wake games are $19.99; Saints Row: […]0
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All five installments in Sierra's classic Quest for Glory are now available to purchase on Good Old Games.3
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The adventure renaissance is luring the genre's talent back to its roots; Space Quest creators Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy are back in the saddle for a new Spaceventure.0
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If playing action games has restricted your vocabulary to the "dude bro" sections of the dictionary, it may be time to go old school. Good Old Games have expanded their catalogue with two anthologies requiring use of the old noggin – Zork and Police Quest.1
Red Baron Arcade lands on the US PlayStation Store
Red Baron Arcade is out today, exclusively for the PlayStation Store. The original game was released by Sierra back in the 90s, and was considered the number four Best PC Game of all Time by Computer Gaming World. Amazing. The arcade-shooter format was been updated for PS3, and has 20 WWI aircraft for you to […]11
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Approximately 95% of the entire known population of gray myotis hibernate in just nine caves each winter. In these few caves, dense concentrations are extremely vulnerable to human disturbance. Fewer than 5% of available caves are suitable for gray myotis occupancy at any time. Exceptionally cold and warm caves are necessary for hibernation and for the rearing of young, respectively.
Loss of these critically important caves, through human disturbance and vandalism, combined with the adverse effects of siltation and pollution of waterways over which the bats feed, resulted in an alarming 80% decline of gray myotis in less than two decades. In 1976, this bat was one of the first to be listed as Endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Since listing, several critical hibernation and maternity caves have been gated, leading to stable and growing populations in many areas.
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The Justice Department on Monday sued North Carolina over the states restrictive new voting law, which requires photo identification for in-person voting and cuts back on early voting and same-day registration all of which will disproportionately affect black voters. The suit, which follows similar litigation against Texas, is the latest effort by the department to go after voting discrimination in the wake of the Supreme Courts ruling in June striking down part of the Voting Rights Act.
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. called the North Carolina law an intentional attempt to break a system that was working, and he said that it was clearly intended to discriminate on the basis of race.
But North Carolina and Texas represent only one front in the continuing battle to protect voting rights. Twenty years after Congress passed the motor voter law to make it easier for Americans to register to vote, numerous states keep trying to make it harder, relying on vague and dubious claims of voter fraud to push through misguided and harmful legislation.
The 1993 law, formally known as the National Voter Registration Act, established a uniform federal form that requires only that voters attest under penalty of perjury that they are citizens. The form, which states must accept and use when people apply for a drivers license, has helped millions of Americans register to vote.
One week before it gutted the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the federal motor voter laws primacy, striking down an Arizona law that required prospective voters to prove their citizenship. That was the right result. In the face of scant evidence of voter fraud, there is no reason to increase barriers to voting.
But the court also noted that if a state believes it needs to see more concrete proof of citizenship, it may request specific changes to the form used within its borders if necessary to determine voters eligibility.
Last month, Kansas and Arizona seized on that point and sued the federal government for refusing to add their stricter requirements to the federal form. (While Kansas permits voters who use the federal form to vote in federal elections, it stops them from voting in state and local elections if they dont provide proof of citizenship.)
Why does Kansas believe it is necessary to require the additional proof? The state makes broad claims that noncitizens have unlawfully registered and voted, but, as usual, there is no evidence that any significant voter fraud exists.
Meanwhile, more than 17,000 Kansans nearly a third of all those who have registered to vote in 2013 currently sit on a suspense list, prevented from voting because the state says they did not provide the required proof of citizenship. State officials have acknowledged that a majority of those on the list may be there because of confusion over conflicting state requirements.
Kansas law, like those the Justice Department has challenged, reveals the underlying dishonesty of voter ID laws. They have nothing to do with stopping the nonexistent threat of voter fraud and everything to do with making it harder for more eligible voters to register and vote.
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Ammiano and Leno seek to reform the Ellis Act and slow SF evictions [UPDATED]
State lawmakers from San Francisco are launching a two-pronged attack on the Ellis Act, which real estate speculators are increasingly using to evict tenants from rent-controlled apartments and cash in on a housing market that's been heated up by demand from high-paid employees of the booming tech sector.
Assemblymember Tom Ammiano today introduced Assembly Bill 2405, which would allow the San Francisco voters or the Board of Supervisors to declare a mortorium on Ellis Act evictions when the city's state-mandated affordable housing goals aren't being met.
Sen. Mark Leno is also planning to introduce his own Ellis Act reforms by today's legislative deadline for introducing new bills. He's been working on a reform package with Mayor Ed Lee, but Leno is keeping the details under wraps under Monday at 9am when the pair will hold a press conference outside a Chinatown apartment building to announce their proposal.
Both proposals face an uphill battle in Sacramento given that San Francisco is one of only a couple jurisdictions in the state that have rent control, which Ellis Act was designed to undermine by allowing landlords to get out of the rental business and remove apartments for the market. And the real estate industry industry is expected to strongly oppose the reforms.
"It will, of course, be very difficult, but Mr. Ammiano has been talking about this for months and he's committed to doing something," his Press Secretary Carlos Alcala told the Guardian.
UPDATE 2/24] Leno and Mayor Lee -- flanked by other supporters of the legislation, including Sups. David Campos and David Chiu, rival candidates to succeed Ammiano -- this morning announced the introduction of Senate Bill 1439. It would authorize San Francisco to prohibit those who buy rental properties to invoke the Ellis Act and evict tenants for at least five years, and only allow only one Ellis Act eviction for the life of each property.
"The original spirit of California's Ellis Act was to allow legitimate landlords a way out of the rental business, but in recent years, speculators have been buying up properties in San Francisco with no intention to become landlords but to instead use a loophole in the Ellis Act to evict long-time residents just to turn a profit," Leno said.
Ammiano's press release follows, followed by Leno's:
Ammiano Introduces Bill to Stem Evictions from Affordable Housing
SACRAMENTO - Assemblymember Tom Ammiano today introduced AB 2405 to empower local jurisdictions to stop the erosion of affordable housing stock.
"San Francisco is seeing a terrible crisis," Ammiano said. "The people who have made our city the diverse and creative place that it is are finding it harder and harder to stay in San Francisco. The rash of Ellis Act evictions has only made it worse."
Ellis Act evictions are permitted under certain circumstances when a property owner is taking a rent-controlled unit out of the rental market. However, some owners have been abusing these provisions and improperly evicting tenants from rent-controlled units. The problem is not restricted to San Francisco, although the city is going through a particularly critical loss of affordable housing.
AB 2405 would allow local jurisdictions – by means of a Board of Supervisors or public vote – to enact a moratorium on Ellis Act evictions when the local housing element is not met. Also, the bill would hide no-fault evictions from tenant records or credit checks in unlawful detainer cases, and would place Ellis Act unlawful detainer cases on civil court calendars.
"Experience shows you can't build your way out of an affordable housing crisis," Ammiano said. "We have to do what we can to preserve what affordable housing we have. This is one piece of that effort."
New Legislation Closes Ellis Act Loophole for San Francisco
Senator Mark Leno Joins Mayor Ed Lee, Tenant Advocates, Labor Groups and Business Leaders
to Stop Speculative Evictions in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO – Senator Mark Leno today joined San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, other elected officials, tenant advocates, labor groups and business leaders to introduce legislation closing a loophole in the Ellis Act that allows speculators to buy rent-controlled buildings in San Francisco and immediately begin the process of evicting long-term renters. Aiming to mitigate the negative impacts of a recent surge in Ellis Act evictions in San Francisco, Senate Bill 1439 authorizes San Francisco to prohibit new property owners from invoking the Ellis Act to evict tenants for five years after the acquisition of a property, ensures that landlords can only activate their Ellis Act rights once, and creates penalties for violations of these new provisions.
"The original spirit of California's Ellis Act was to allow legitimate landlords a way out of the rental business, but in recent years, speculators have been buying up properties in San Francisco with no intention to become landlords but to instead use a loophole in the Ellis Act to evict long-time residents just to turn a profit," said Senator Leno, D-San Francisco. "Many of these renters are seniors, disabled people and low-income families with deep roots in their communities and no other local affordable housing options available to them. Our bill gives San Francisco an opportunity to stop the bleeding and save the unique fabric of our City."
Ellis Act evictions in San Francisco have tripled in the last year as more than 300 properties were taken off the rental market. This spike in evictions has occurred simultaneously with huge increases in San Francisco property values and housing prices. About 50 percent of the city's 2013 evictions were initiated by owners who had held a property for less than one year, and the majority of those happened during the first six months of ownership.
"We have some of the best tenant protections in the country, but unchecked real estate speculation threatens too many of our residents," said Mayor Lee. "These speculators are turning a quick profit at the expense of long time tenants and do nothing to add needed housing in our City. These are not the landlords the Ellis Act was designed to help, and this legislation gives San Francisco additional tools needed to protect valuable housing and prevent further Ellis Act speculator evictions, which has already displaced working families and longtime San Franciscans. This carve out is a good policy for San Francisco, and I thank Senator Leno for being a champion on this issue. Together we have built a large coalition of renters, labor and business leaders to fight this battle in Sacramento to support middle income and working families here in our City."
"Rents in San Francisco are at an all-time high. My former neighbors and I, working families and seniors, were displaced from the place we called home for several decades," said Gum Gee Lee. "Those that have yet to receive an Ellis Act notice continue to live in fear, fear that they too will be evicted from their homes. For seniors such as myself who rely on public transportation and access to social and health services within our community, Ellis evictions cut our lifeline, our independence to thrive. For working class families such as my former neighbors from Jackson Street, they continue to struggle to survive in San Francisco. San Francisco is our home."
Enacted as state law in 1985, the Ellis Act allows owners to evict tenants and quickly turn buildings into Tenancy In Common (TIC) units for resale on the market. In San Francisco, the units that are being cleared are often rent controlled and home to seniors, disabled Californians and working class families. When these affordable rental units are removed from the market, they never return.
Senate Bill 1439 will be heard in Senate policy committees this spring.
A growing number of private landlords are already doing their part to eliminate their participation in the residential rental market. It's called invoking the Ellis Act.
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I agree with your long term goal to eliminate all capitalistic property owners and turn all ownership over to The State. After the Glorious Revolution we can all have the San Francisco Housing Authority as our landlord and live in a wonderful Socialist Utopia. I dream of the day that I can have the clogged up toilets, leaky faucets and cockroach infested walls of my youth.
Viva La Revolucion!
I'm really looking forward to your explanation.
You moron, they have done that in Cuba …. result NO NEW HOUSING EVER and the pre existing housing ? Falling apart …. YOU MUST BE A METH ADDICT
and more homes for rent. In fact, the current shortage of rental homes is due to the existing rules, which is why so many LL's just quit and convery their rentals to owner-occupation or overnight lets.
that they are allowing their hatred of people in a particular profession to outweigh their desire to see more rental housing and more affordable rents.
Likewise, a 30% tax on rents would simply cause rents to be raised to cover that cost or for more landlords to quit the business.
Why do these people never think things through?
They are ignorant and stupid. Like how they though banning all condo conversions was a good idea. It just made Ellis acts more desirable to landlords. Stupid fools.
Keep up this socialist property seizing crap and you will have a proposition on the state ballot to put San Francisco rent control thieves in their place, Ban ALL RENT CONTROL, VIA a State ballot Prop !!!!
I can see the wording now... San Francisco socialists are coming to seize your property ! Stop them by voting yes on prop 49 !
gradual erosion of RC units in SF mean that rent control going way is a matter of when rather than if.
Prop 98, June 2008. Failed by a massive landslide. Non-starter.
Price controls are valid in certain temporary situations, e.g. war and disasters. When you try and duck housing policy by using only this tactic for decades, it will fail.
Doesn't matter whether RC gets bounced or just fades away. It's toast because it doesn't work. Already only about 50% of SF tenants have rent control Strip out turnover, evictions and LL's refusing to rent, and you're looking at a decade, maybe two, at the most.
You're a dinosaur.
We need to push the envelope and put it on the ballot again and again if necessary.
pushes up against what the state and the constitution will allow. That's why we have the Ellis Act and the Costa-Hawkins Act - because SF and a couple of other cities went too far.
And your solution is to push further? It will just lead to more backlash.
Instead, why not work out compromises with landlords. We might be willing to yield on certain things as long as the anomalies and inconsistencies of rent control are also rolled back.
Making this a war you have to win hasn't done you any good, else we would not be seeing this latest "crisis".
So can legislative repeal. If it fails, try again and again.
Legislatures and voters are given enormous power to alter economic rules, including tax rules. Read the footnotes of Carolene Products, although I wouldn't expect you'll be able to ascertain their nuances and ramifications.
Even severe restrictions that property owners think are outright "takings" of their precious property are often upheld by the courts. Taxing away 90% of the capital gain on property sales (other than a personal residence), or eliminating the billions of dollars of landlord income tax subsidies, or slapping a 30% rent tax on landlord rent income whenever there is less than a 10% vacancy rate in the community and using the proceeds to build housing, are easily constitutional.
You must be the same poster who said David Chiu's friend Steven MacDonald was required to represent multi-millionaire landlord evictors, which of course is totally false since private attorneys carefully pick their clients and reject far more than they accept. You're having a very bad month here posting so much garbage misinformation. Time for a break.
It'll be interesting to watch. I wonder why San Francisco hasn't already done any of these things though. Seems like they would have by now if it were so easy. I'd honestly like to hear your thoughts.
In my opinion, the Google protests have succeeded in garnering a lot of attention and now might be a good time for communists (not an insult, feel free to insert your preferred moniker here) to make their play. But I also think that many techies feel scapegoated and even outright attacked. These people WILL be voting, as well as contributing to political campaigns. Righteous indignation has a way of opening pocketbooks. I think the activists may have blundered here.
because there is no popular support for ideas that would effectively kill off all rental housing in SF.
Greg thinks a ballot initiative can overthrow Ellis and Costa-Hawkins but, again, that is dreaming because they are state laws and the SF voters would have very little impact state-wide, while the rest of the state would not be interested.
We need to encourage people to offer rental housing and, right now, we are encourage them to quit the business instead
You need to put down that meth pipe….
"passing confiscatory laws that were violating basic property rights."
ah, the intellection of a field mouse.
So why should readers expect the rest of your rant to be any more accurate.
Okay, fess up. Who hired the Ayn Rand squad to sh*t on this idea?
SF rents are out of control, housing prices are so over the top that it's become a joke - and unfunny joke where working middle class can't afford to live in this city anymore.
Who thought John Galt would settle in San Francisco?
trying ideas that might actually encourage more homes is a better shot.
You cannot keep over-regulating landlords and then act surprised when rental homes get taken off the market.
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Im trying to move out of California, because I want to live with elbow room. Aside from it being disgustingly expensive, I want and declare space to think and dwell. A smaller and dynamic city that is way less crowded. San Francisco is highly over rated.
Being voted the most dynamic city on the planet is a great honor. And it's helping many of us to prosper.
Granted, if your best days are behind you personally and you're on SSI or a fixed public pension, as many San Franciscans are, the city may seem like it's leaving you behind and getting "worse". But in terms of innovation, creative energy, entrepreneurial spirit, San Francisco/Silicon Valley of the late-20th, early-21st century will be a tale told in history alongside with the western migration of the 19th century and gold rush.
Because they are being outbid for their slice of the American Dream by people who can actually produce economically.
It is no longer possible to live in the world's favorite city for no reason other than feeling that you are so pathetic that you cannot fit in anywhere else, and never want to grow up.
Once the losers leave, this place will really rock.
That is the honest truth, all these losers and their going on and on about how "special" they are and why they deserve to be subsidized to live in the most expensive city in America. The massive of naked narcism is sickening….
I dont consider this my favorite city. I am trying to move out of California to a smaller city. I need the elbow room that SF will never have. I hate living in tight quarters. Why would anyone pay for disgustingly expensive housing, for an apartment that has make-shift repares and coin operated laundry that never works ? I am done.
SF is far over rated and full of itself. Life is better elsewhere. Besides, smaller cities smell better.
Best of Luck!
with the Ellis Act.
The Ellis is not a problem anywhere else in CA.
Let these multi unit building be ellis'd, and TIC'd - this way we can have more affordable housing for San Franciscans who contribute to the City, and not the activist parasites.
business against their wishes - the courts have been clear on this again and again. I doubt this has any chance of passage and even if it did Gov. Brown takes a dim view of this kind of thing. But even if it were passed it would be immediately challenged and SCOTUS has made clear its support of private property rights.
run a business if they do not want to.
And who want to have such a person as a landlord even if they could?
action using state power - they both share that anti-democratic impulse. They differ on what that course of action should be but they sure share the love of attempting to force a desired outcome using legislative or judicial pressure.
on economic issues. They should both butt out.
Social issues don't involve unequal power relationships in the same way economic issues do. When the government completely "butts out" of economic issues, that doesn't result in more freedom. It just lets the powerful take advantage of the weak.
Domestic violence
Sexual harassment
Hate speech
If you are poor, you can change that and become rich, and so powerful
If you are black or female or gay or disabled or an immigrant, you can do nothing about that.
So there are more structural imbalances of power in social issues than economic issues
To the extent that these issues do involve unequal power relationships, progressives are on the side of equalizing them. But one person committing an individual act against another person is not on the same level as one person fighting a corporation.
As for becoming rich in order to gain power, there are two things wrong there. One is that the US has the lowest rate of upward mobility in the entire developed world. But the important thing is that we should *all* be empowered, not just the privileged.
Why we have seen an increase in civil rights over the last 50 years.
the voters have not been convinced by the arguments for economic equality, however, which is why the US has become more unequal (or more opportunisatic as I prefer to think of it).
You won the debate on social matters and lost the debate on economic matters. A fair compromise IMO.
How about the government spending resources educating people to get good jobs, live within your means and save for their future? The majority of these tenants needing subsidies have not done that.
Only speculators build housing!. Housing activists build nothing, they just try and steal property from the rightful owners ! Sick, greedy, property, thieving pigs, that is what "housing activists" really are.
Were Tom Ammiano's eyes evicted via the Ellis Act?
If you want to protect the rental stock (which is private, not public property) get rid of rent control. No rent control, pretty much no Ellis acts. That how it is for the rest of the state….
How about building more units, more rental, more home ownership units, just saying move to Oakland won't help. What about the residents of Oakland when they start getting kicked out. Any renter can get kicked out for Ellis, not just in San Francisco.
Answer is to build now.
We have empty land on the waterfront, we have empty land here and there.
much cheaper, while having better weather, transit, communication etc., and is only a few minutes away.
SF should be joining forces with Oakland to build there and help out the shortage.
LOL. Senate Bill 1439. is a proposed state law that changes the Ellis Act - but only for San Francisco, not for the rest of the state.
Now that we have established the principle that it's OK to pass state laws that only apply to San Francisco, the California legislature should pass a raft of new taxes - which would only apply to San Francisco.
After all, since San Francisco is the bestest, most wonderful place to live on the planet, it is only fair to establish special state taxes that are only paid by San Franciscans.
Want a city income tax, estate tax, capital gains tax or wealth tax? Too bad, because the State doesn't allow it even though the great unwashed city electorate might vote for them because they think they won't have to pay it.
History teaches us that taxes passed on the rich are eventually paid by everyone except the rich. Fucking ironic, huh?
Ammiano is a nutjob.
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