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Homelessness Ends with a Home- House Keys Not Handcuffs Rally & Action

Date:
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Time:
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
WRAP
Location Details:
Justin Herman Plaza (1 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94101)
[*note, this location has been updated]

HOMELESSNESS ENDS WITH A HOME– HOUSE KEYS NOT HANDCUFFS RALLY & ACTION
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 2010
Justin Herman Plaza (1 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94101)

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JOIN US AS CONTINGENTS OF THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING MOVEMENT FROM
LOS ANGELES, SEATTLE, PORTLAND SAN FRANCISCO, OAKLAND, BERKELEY OTHER US CITIES
CELEBRATE THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.

Our communities represent millions of square miles, dozens of languages, many cultures and all ages.
We will not sit idly by as our communities are torn apart by lack of true affordable housing, policing, neglect, greed and gentrification.

MOBILIZING THE EAST BAY CONTINGENCY
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO LEARN HOW TO PARTICIPATE CONTACT
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)
2065 Kittredge Street, Suite E, Berkeley CA 94704
http://www.createpeaceathome.org
santana400 [at] aol.com
510 649-1930 x 221


OUR DEMANDS ON HOUSING
1. Immediately restore all Federal Government affordable housing program funding to comparable 1978 allocation levels. With an emphasis on HUD’s Public Housing and Public-based Section 8.
2. Enact a moratorium on the demolition, conversion or destruction of ANY publicly funded units until federal law guarantees one for one replacement at existing affordability rates.
3. Ensure adequate funding for operations of public housing to prevent unit loss, high vacancy rates, and substandard living conditions.

OUR DEMANDS ON CIVIL RIGHTS
1. Stop police and business improvement zone programs that enforce “nuisance crimes” or “quality of life crimes.” These programs criminalize and remove homeless, poor, people of color, and disabled
members of our communities.
2. Call for DOJ to respond to LA community request for investigation of discriminatory police enforcement under the Safer Cities Initiative that targets homeless, poor, people of color and disabled community
residents.
3. Ensure that the more than 914,000 homeless children in our public schools are able to stay at their “home school” are fully integrated with their housed peers and are provided the support they need to learn and thrive.
4. Stop any and all questions regarding a person’s immigration status when they are requesting healthcare, emergency shelter or services.

To find out more visit Western Regional Advocacy Project
www. wraphome.org or BOSS Social Justice Website http://www.createpeaceathome.org
(415) 621-2533

Member Organizations
BOSS, Berkeley http://www.self-sufficiency.org (510) 649-1930 x 221
Coalition on Homelessness, SF http://www.cohsf.org (415) 346-3740
LA CAN, LA http://www.cangress.org (213) 228-0048
Real Change, Seattle http://www.realchangenews.org (206) 441-3247
Sisters Of The Road, Portland http://www.sistersoftheroad.org (503) 222-5694
Street Roots, Portland http://www.streetroots.org (503) 228-5657
Street Spirit, Oakland http://www.thestreetspirit.org (510) 238-8080 x 303
Added to the calendar on Mon, Jan 4, 2010 3:47PM

Comments (Hide Comments)
Homeless man in SF, with 11 warrants for similar offenses, kills an innocent 38 year old stranger in SF. The guy was let go "in the interest of justice" even though he was carrying a concealed weapon. It sounds like the city is bending over backwards to accommodate the homeless much to the detriment of average, law-abiding citizens. Personally, I will not even make eye contact with the homeless crazies in S.F.

Have any of you homeless defenders ever spent time walking down 6th or 7th streets at night? It's outright dangerous.
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