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DESCRIPTION:We must organize to resist and bring attention to the injustice of this 
 take over of housing. Tell your friends and neighbors: We need to be there; 
 we need to ask questions; we need to demand answers. What will people do 
 without housing? Will Berkeley  oppose the developers who have brought down 
 the economy?\n\n\nFor Immediate Release:\n\nContact: Eleanor Walden 
 \newalden3@comcast.net\n\n\n\nBerkeley Housing Authority brings down the 
 auction hammer on public housing tenants\n\n\nNOT IN OUR NAME! \n\nSee also 
 Lynda Carson article in Berkeley Daily Planet: \n\nClick 
 below...\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/3jgjm74\n\n\nRally To Save Berkeley's Public 
 Housing!\n\nWhen: Wed. May 18, 2011 at 9AM.\n\nWhere: 3075 Adeline Street, 
 Berkeley, CA, at the Ed Roberts Campus building, Koret Boardroom 
 \n\n\nBerkeley Housing Authority brings down the auction hammer on public 
 housing tenants\n\nBy Eleanor Walden\n \nBerkeley -- The federal housing 
 crisis is a national disgrace and the housing crisis in Berkeley is a local 
 dishonor. The Republicans have cut HUD and the federal housing budget by 
 billions of $$$ now Berkeley Housing Authority is planning to sell public 
 housing units still occupied by tenants.\n\nBHA complains that it cannot 
 afford to sustain the loss of $106,000 annually for public housing. 
 However, it paid $69,777 to EJP Consulting for assistance to dispose of 
 Berkeley's public housing units and $167,000 to relocation consultants - 
 Overland, Pacific and Cutler (OPC). Total relocation cost estimate for 
 Berkeley's public housing tenants is $365,513. BHA says it also needs $4.5 
 million to rehab the units.\n\nWhere is the money coming from? Does this 
 make financial sense? Where is our outrage? Can we sit quietly while BHA 
 destroys public housing and invades sitting tenants?  It does not matter if 
 you are in public housing or not, these cuts affect everybody, poor people, 
 elders, working and middle class individuals and families.\n\nThere is one 
 last opportunity to speak out against the developers who are scavenging 
 public housing in Berkeley. A last minute meeting has been called for 
 Developer/Owners to develop a proposal, with the aid of BHA, to bid for and 
 acquire 75 of these public housing units still occupied.\n\n Tenants should 
 be at this meeting -\n\n            Developer/Owner Pre-proposal Conference 
 will be held on:\n\n            Wed. May 18, 2011 \n\n            9AM\n\n   
          3075 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA \n\n            Ed Roberts 
 Campus building, Koret Boardroom\n\n            (please note: it is NOT at 
 the BHA offices on Fairview St the location was changed at the last 
 minute)\n\n            *Unit tour immediately following* 
 \n\nhttp://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=20784\n\n\nWe must 
 organize to resist and bring attention to the injustice of this take over 
 of housing. Tell your friends and neighbors: We need to be there; we need 
 to ask questions; we need to demand answers. What will people do without 
 housing? Will Berkeley  oppose the developers who have brought down the 
 economy?  \n\nSpread this notice\n\nEleanor Walden\n\nFormer Berkeley Rent 
 Board Commissioner \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/16/18679796.php
SUMMARY:Rally To Save Berkeley's Public Housing!
LOCATION:3075 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA, at the Ed Roberts Campus building, Koret 
 Boardroom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/16/18679796.php
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