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DESCRIPTION:Speak out against the plan to sell Berkeley's public housing to a so-called 
 nonprofit housing developer!\n\nFor Immediate Release\n  \nContact numbers; 
  Keith Carlisle 510/395-5999  or  Rose Flippin  510/472-6499\n  \n\nRally 
 To Save Berkeley’s Public Housing  \n\nWhen:  6pm on Tuesday January 
 19\n\nWhere:  On the steps of Old City Hall\nat 2134 Martin Luther King, 
 Jr. Way\nin Berkeley.   Be There!\n\n\nRally To Save Berkeley’s Public 
 Housing\n\nBerkeley – The Berkeley Housing Authority (BHA) \nhad until 
 December 31st to come up with a plan to \nmanage its public housing, or to 
 come up with a\nplan to dispose of it’s public housing. The BHA \ndecided 
 to sell it’s 75 public housing units, and \nfiled a Disposition Plan with 
 the Department of  \nHousing and Urban Development (HUD). \n\nThe public 
 housing residents of Berkeley will rally on January 19th against the plan 
 to privatize their housing and invite the public to join them in protest to 
 save Berkeley’s 75 three and four bedroom public housing units from being 
 sold to a so-called nonprofit housing developer. Public housing families 
 face displacement and homelessness.\n\nPublic housing provides housing to 
 poor families on General Assistance, SSI, and Cal-Works, while nonprofit 
 housing developers discriminate against these same poor people by use of 
 minimum income requirements, unless they are Section 8 tenants and can be  
 exploited.   Public housing belongs to the public, not profit minded 
 housing developers!  \n\n The loss of Berkeley’s public housing would 
 result in one less option for the poor, a loss of federal funding to 
 Berkeley, and the loss of good union jobs in the BHA.  A bad plan! \n      
 \nThere is also concern of a conflict of interest with BHA Board Member 
 Carole Norris, vice president of ICF Consultants and the plan to sell 
 public housing to a nonprofit developer. ICF Consultants are consultants 
 for nonprofit housing developers.\n                    \nJoin Berkeley’s 
 public housing tenants for the January 19 rally in front of Old City Hall, 
 and then inside the City Council meeting as they speak out against the 
 privatization of our public housing!   Stop the privatization of our public 
 housing!\n\nJoin us for the 6pm Rally and the 7pm City Council Meeting!   
 Be There!\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/18/18635532.php
SUMMARY:Rally To Save Berkeley’s Public Housing
LOCATION:On the steps of Old City Hall\nat 2134 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way\nin 
 Berkeley. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/18/18635532.php
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