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Homes Not Jails and OccupySF Take Over Cathedral Hill Hotel
Today at 6:41PM, the former Cathedral Hill Hotel at 1101 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco was occupied by demonstrators led by the squatters' collective Homes Not Jails and reinforced by the activists of Occupy San Francisco.
Homes Not Jails and OccupySF Take Over Cathedral Hill Hotel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE
Press Contact: Brian Wilkes
Cell: 415.230.2392
Live updates to be posted Oct. 10th at http://www.HomesNotJailsSF.org and 1.877.50.SQUAT(1.877.507.7828).
Today at 6:41PM, the former Cathedral Hill Hotel at 1101 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco was occupied by demonstrators led by the squatters' collective Homes Not Jails and reinforced by the activists of Occupy San Francisco. Approximately 30 occupiers are presently inside the building, which contains 600 housing units. They report that most if not all of the rooms remain furnished and in habitable condition.
The historic hotel known once as the Jack Tar, which was damaged by a fire in 2008, reopened to the public in 2008, and finally closed its doors on October 31, 2009. For two years it has sat vacant while the deep economic crisis precipitated by avaricious Wall Street bankers has forced more and more working people into poverty and homelessness.
Activists demand that habitable housing stock be put into use for people not profits, and point out that enough residential units exist in San Francisco to eliminate homelessness in the City.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE
Press Contact: Brian Wilkes
Cell: 415.230.2392
Live updates to be posted Oct. 10th at http://www.HomesNotJailsSF.org and 1.877.50.SQUAT(1.877.507.7828).
Today at 6:41PM, the former Cathedral Hill Hotel at 1101 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco was occupied by demonstrators led by the squatters' collective Homes Not Jails and reinforced by the activists of Occupy San Francisco. Approximately 30 occupiers are presently inside the building, which contains 600 housing units. They report that most if not all of the rooms remain furnished and in habitable condition.
The historic hotel known once as the Jack Tar, which was damaged by a fire in 2008, reopened to the public in 2008, and finally closed its doors on October 31, 2009. For two years it has sat vacant while the deep economic crisis precipitated by avaricious Wall Street bankers has forced more and more working people into poverty and homelessness.
Activists demand that habitable housing stock be put into use for people not profits, and point out that enough residential units exist in San Francisco to eliminate homelessness in the City.
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For more information:
http://www.homesnotjailssf.org/
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At 7:45PM tonight, a coalition of community organizers and homeless advocates led by the squatters' collective Homes Not Jails and reinforced by activists from OccupySF seized a vacant apartment building at 1028-1030 Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. The building contains 17 apartment units that activists say should be opened to homeless individuals immediately.
For more information:
http://www.homesnotjailssf.org/
At 8:15PM, Homes Not Jails and OccupySF activists successfully occupied two more properties, at 1020 and 1034-1036 Geary Boulevard in San Francisco.
For more information:
http://www.homesnotjailssf.org/
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