In the language of the mob, "whack" means to kill.  100% rent increases for those in their 80s and 90s and/or those severely disabled means the same thing, only more slowly.  First comes economic death, as elderly people are forced to spend 75% or more of meager incomes or pensions to landlords just to keep the roof over their heads, and then parcel out the pitiful amount left for everything else.  What it ultimately gets down to is "megabucks" for the landlords and pennies for everything else - food, clothing, medicine, and all the other things basic survival for seniors entails. 

      Some say the poor and elderly don't need as much as other people.  That's true! They need more!  The twilight of life is a costly business!  Just ask those who have given up eating meat in order to afford cortisone! 

     100% increases for the elderly and/or disabled means economic extinction now and physical extinction later.  Rent increase caps need to be extended to all seniors and disabled, not just some, and it needs to be done now!  

      TENAC urges the council to enact true "emergency" legislation, the kind that will keep our elderly and/or disabled citizens in their homes, not in shelters or homeless in the street.  

      LONG LIVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR ALL!