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DESCRIPTION:   ---SAVE BERKELEY'S HOUSING AUTHORITY---\n\nJOIN BERKELEY'S CITIZENS TO 
 SAVE THE BERKELEY HOUSING AUTHORITY & IT'S SECTION 8 & PUBLIC HOUSING 
 PROGRAMS! \n\nBudget cuts are attacking Berkeley's low-income housing 
 programs!\n\nDiscussions are taking place putting more than 1,800 families 
 at risk of homeless! \n\nThis is not acceptable!\n\nJoin us to demand full 
 funding to support and maintain local control of the  Berkeley Housing 
 Authority! \n\nSupport Public Housing & the Section 8 Program!\n\nWhen: 
 6:30 pm on July 11 \n\nWhere: On The Steps Of The Old City Hall \nAt 2134 
 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way., In Berkeley! \n\nJoin us at the Press 
 Conference and Rally to speak out against the attack on Berkeley's 
 low-income housing!\n\nBring protest signs and your friends to oppose 
 budget cuts that are threatening Berkeley's Public Housing & Section 8 
 Programs! \n\nThen join us inside for the 7pm CITY COUNCIL MEETING to speak 
 up during the OPEN FORUM in support of the Berkeley Housing Authority! 
 \n\n\nSee below for more details...\n  \n\nWe Shall Not Be Moved!\n\nSave 
 Berkeley’s Housing Authority\n\nThe Bush Administration’s tax cuts for 
 the filty rich and the \nillegal War on Iraq are taking precious resources 
 from the poor, elderly and disabled! It’s the Robin Hood scenario in 
 reverse!\n\nAs a result, Berkeley Housing Authority is in a crisis! Two 
 years \nago, HUD cut funding by 13 percent, resulting in estimated 
 shortages of $73,000 in 2004 and $212,000 in 2005. Congress wants to cut an 
 additional 8 percent this year from the BHA’s budget! A disaster to the 
 Section 8 and Public Housing programs! \n\nOn June 27, the Berkeley Housing 
 Authority Board voted to \nauthorize Berkeley’s city manager to negotiate 
 with HUD \nover reorganizing the imperiled agency. The options are 
 to\nappoint a permanent manager, send the agency into receivership, 
 abolishing it altogether or tucking it into another organization such as 
 the Housing Authority of Alameda County. \n \nThe Citizens of Berkeley 
 Demand \nFull Funding for The BHA!\n\nWe demand full funding to appoint a 
 permanent manager, \nand to keep the agency under local control in 
 Berkeley! \n\nWe support the Housing Authority’s  movement to \nearmark 
 $150,000 in general funds for additional staffing! \n\nHanding the agency 
 over to other entities or letting it fall \ninto receivorship will result 
 in more homelessness! We say NO! \n\nMore than 1,800 Berkeley families at 
 risk! More than half \n(52%) of all public housing residents are elderly or 
 people with \ndisabilities in America!\n\nAnother 4.7 million seniors, 
 people with disabilities and low-income families with children use Section 
 8 housing choice vouchers. \n\n   Save Berkeley’s Housing Authority! \n   
   We Shall Not Be Moved!    \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/06/18285948.php
SUMMARY:July 11 Berkeley City Hall Section 8/Public Housing Rally  
LOCATION:Where: On The Steps Of The Old City Hall \nAt 2134 Martin Luther King, Jr. 
 Way., In Berkeley!\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/06/18285948.php
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