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Jerry Brown Response To 50 Evictions

by Lynda Carson (lyndacarson [at] excite.com)
The Politics Of Dumping The Poor Upon The Streets Of Oakland Are Grim And Unacceptable!
Oakland Housing & Politics...

On Tuesday Evening May 6, 2003-- Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown has read the writing upon the wall & realizes that 49 speakers showed up at the Oakland City Council Meeting in support of the Coalition Workforce Housing Plan which challenges his own deal he worked out with the Billionaires of Forest City Enterprises for the Uptown Project...

Pressure is building against him and the Forest City Deal which would amount to a $60 million subsidy to 3 families of billionaires running Forest City Enterprises and their housing deal for the rich . The project an overall part of the Mayors 10 K Plan which also calls for the evictions of scores of low-income affordable housing units at the Westerner Hotel, Pacific Renaissance Plaza, and the Alice Arts Center have all recently been exposed as being connected...

In a state of panic, the Mayor quickly lashes out at anyone he can in an attempt to shut them down, and shut them up.....

I am one of those that has heard from the Mayor of Oakland for speaking out against the evictions going on...

Lynda Carson

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From: jb [at] jerrybrown.org | This is spam | Add to
Address Book
To: "'Lynda Carson'" <tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com>, "Brown,
Jerry" <jb [at] jerrybrown.org>, ed [at] hkanc.com
Subject: RE: 50 Low-Income Renters Targeted For
Eviction... has nothing to do with the Uptown Housing
Project
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 19:11:04 -0700


Let keep it honest. The Forest City development is the
most viable project for Uptown in more than a quarter
of a century.

Ask yourself: why has this area been virtually dead
for so long? If it could have been developed in the
manner you propose, the city council would have done
it by now.

Construction costs/capital costs are such that the
falling rents in the city make it even harder today to
finance this Uptown project--which, in fact, includes
a substantial number of affordable units. If the
opponents win and kill this project because they can't
get the one they want--which is totally
impractical--that would be tragic.

The billionaire line is great rhetoric but for what
purpose? Do you want only small corporations to invest
in Oakland? If you do, you wish to wipe out tens of
thousands of jobs and force thousands of layoffs from
the City of Oakland.

I really find it counter-productive to throw out
imaginary plans in order to kill real ones that could
revitalize downtown.

Finally, the evictions you mention in the email below
have no relationship to Forest City. Let's keep
diffent problems distinct so that people of good will
can work on solutions.

Jerry Brown

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To: jb [at] jerrybrown.org, ed [at] hkanc.com
From: "Lynda Carson" <tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com> | This is spam | Add to Address Book
Subject: (YNPN) Thanks for your attention Mayor J. Brown...
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 00:41:17 -0700 (PDT)


Hello Jerry

Thanks for your response about the 50 rental units
of low-income housing at the Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland. But, they still need your support, which you are not offering. Give Lawrence Chan a call to request a very long extension for the people facing
evictions.

His assistant is named Amy Choi, and both may be
reached at 415/ 392-8000. Ask for Amy Choi, and you
will reach Lawrence Chans office to reach him...I hope
that everyone will follow suit and ask Lawrence Chan
to let the poor people of Pacific Renaissance Plaza
remain housed....

It would be wonderful if the community managed to
save 50 units of low-income housing just by simply
giving a call to the office of Lawrence Chan! Give him
a call Jerry, and join the others with a heart to
support those people in their time of need!

With all due respect, it's you who are not being
honest. Those are real people about to be tossed upon
the streets from the Pacific Renaissance Plaza, and
it's your 10 K Plan that targets every last one of
them; including the 74 units of real people at the
Alice Arts Center, & another 34 units of low-income
housing being lost at the Western Hotel.

Jerry, thats a lot of poor people being dumped
upon the streets of Oakland...

You want the poor to be replaced by the well to
do?

It's a fact that the 3 families controling Forest
City Enterprises are Billionaires, not, rhetoric. Your
plan to give them a 60 million dollar subsidy is the
Robin Hood scenario in reverse. The poor in Oakland,
give up needed dollars to the rich in your fantasy. In
this case, 3 families of BILLIONAIRES worth over 4
billion between the 3 of them. How much money could
they ever want in a lifetime? If a $billion$ for each
family is not enough, forget it! They will never be
rich enough, and theres no point in nourishing their
greed...

Yes, I want small local Oakland business's to
thrive in this community, so that the dollars
generated remain within this community. Theres no
point in large off shore corporations coming into
Oakland to suck it dry, when local non-profit housing
corporations can stretch the most out of Oaklands 60
million subsidy being proposed to the billionaires of
Forest City Enterprises.

Whats been tragic & counter productive to the
citizens of Oakland, is the 2 bit entertainer talk
show host from KPFA who hood winked the public into
voting for him, and then sold them down the river to
the likes of Forrest City Enterprises....We The
People? Really?

Do the world a favor, and get off of the backs of
the working class and poor folks of Oakland, and give
them a break...You of all people know better...Stop
abusing the People...Whats wrong with you?

I liked you a whole lot better when you actually
gave people hope once upon a time...It's not to
late...

later...

Lynda Carson

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