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DESCRIPTION:Join public housing tenants from Cypress Village and Lockwood Gardens in 
 Oakland and Sunnydale in San Francisco in a discussion about recent tenant 
 organizing efforts. The San Francisco and Oakland Housing Authorities, just 
 like Housing Authorities across the country, have been forcing tenants to 
 live in dangerous conditions in order to justify selling public housing off 
 to the highest bidder. Tenants at the few public housing projects left in 
 the Bay Area are coming together to fight back.\n\nLearn about the 
 nationwide plan by the politicians, the developers, and the banks to 
 eliminate all public housing by handing it over to private developers and 
 management companies, and what tenants in the Bay Area are doing to stop 
 it! There will be a brief presentation and some roundtable discussion about 
 how people can work together to fight against the privatization of public 
 housing and gentrification locally and nationally.\n\nIn Oakland, tenants 
 have been organizing at the last two public housing developments in the 
 city: Cypress Village in West Oakland and Lockwood Gardens in East Oakland. 
 Cypress and Lockwood are not currently facing privatization but residents 
 have been organizing to form independent tenant unions to fight for 
 residents’ interests and be prepared to fight against 
 privatization.\n\nIn San Francisco, there is a citywide privatization plan 
 called HOPE SF. The city government, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP 
 Morgan Chase, Google, Kaiser Permanente, and foundations in the city are 
 working together via the HOPE SF scheme. HOPE SF’s plan is to eliminate 
 the last public housing in San Francisco (Sunnydale, Potrero, Double 
 Rock/Alice Griffith, and Hunters View) by destroying it and building mixed 
 income developments owned and managed by different private developers like 
 Mercy Housing, the John Stewart Company, and BRIDGE Housing.\n\nThere are 
 only two remaining public housing developments still under the San 
 Francisco Housing Authority: Sunnydale and Potrero. Tenants at Sunnydale 
 have been organizing to resist the privatization and destruction of their 
 homes, to not be bullied into signing leases with the private developer 
 Mercy Housing, and to speak up about the truth that these private 
 developers are just going to make the situation worse for residents and 
 leave them more vulnerable, as we’ve seen in developments that have been 
 privatized in the Bay Area and across the country. Sunnydale residents have 
 been working with residents at Potrero and privatized developments like 
 Double Rock.\n\nWatch the recording of an event held May 4, 2021 which 
 featured activists and public housing residents from across the country 
 discussing their experiences and sharing updates from the struggle against 
 the privatization of public housing: https://youtu.be/_US9KIuvYmc \n\nThis 
 event is sponsored by the United Front Against Displacement, the Cypress 
 Village Tenant Union, and the Residents of Sunnydale.\n\nEmail: 
 wewontgo@riseup.net \nText/call: 510-815-9978\nWebsite: theufad.org\nSocial 
 media: @theufad\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/11/18842443.php
SUMMARY:Come Together, Speak Out, Fight Back! Defending public housing in the Bay Area
LOCATION:Bobby Hutton Park (16th Street & Adeline), Oakland CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/11/18842443.php
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