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Stop Cuts to Public Housing!
Press Conference and Board Hearing Monday to Protest Cuts to Public Housing funds.
Protest Public Housing Cuts!!
Press Conference and Board of Supervisors Hearing Monday
Life will get much worse for residents of San Francisco’s 6,000 public housing units if Congress doesn’t take action now. Properties that are already in dire need of major repairs, more security services, improved management and more housing units will futher deteriorate if the latest HUD budget cuts remain unopposed.
This year’s federal assault on low-income housing comes in the form of $600 million dollars in cuts to the public housing operating budget. This is the only money that local housing authorities have to subsidize units and cover daily operating expenses like repairs. The San Francisco Housing Authority is slated to lose $7 million dollars this year which will leave them with only $342 subsidy per unit (plus an average of $200 monthly rent) in a market where average rents are $1700. The funding shortfall will mean less repairs, less security and less services.
Residents and housing advocates are outraged and are taking action. The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco has organized in response to the latest threat to our city’s low-income housing to make the voices of public housing residents heard by Congress. Over 600 postcards (10% of residents) have been gathered from tenants and will be hand delivered to San Francisco’s congressional representatives. Residents and advocates have been meeting with congressional staff to urge action. They have also been working with the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors to build awareness of the issue and to add their voices to the effort to stop the cuts. On Monday, the San Francisco Labor Council, who’s members face layoffs if funding is not restored, passed a resolution opposing the funding cuts. We need your support!
Please join us, on Monday the 18th, in urging
Congress to fix the public housing funding crisis:
12:30 Press Conference on City Hall Steps
1pm Board of Supervisors Hearing in City Hall (Board Chambers)
You can also send a letter to Congress online at ww.local-impact.org. For more information contact Sara [at] hrcsf.org.
Press Conference and Board of Supervisors Hearing Monday
Life will get much worse for residents of San Francisco’s 6,000 public housing units if Congress doesn’t take action now. Properties that are already in dire need of major repairs, more security services, improved management and more housing units will futher deteriorate if the latest HUD budget cuts remain unopposed.
This year’s federal assault on low-income housing comes in the form of $600 million dollars in cuts to the public housing operating budget. This is the only money that local housing authorities have to subsidize units and cover daily operating expenses like repairs. The San Francisco Housing Authority is slated to lose $7 million dollars this year which will leave them with only $342 subsidy per unit (plus an average of $200 monthly rent) in a market where average rents are $1700. The funding shortfall will mean less repairs, less security and less services.
Residents and housing advocates are outraged and are taking action. The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco has organized in response to the latest threat to our city’s low-income housing to make the voices of public housing residents heard by Congress. Over 600 postcards (10% of residents) have been gathered from tenants and will be hand delivered to San Francisco’s congressional representatives. Residents and advocates have been meeting with congressional staff to urge action. They have also been working with the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors to build awareness of the issue and to add their voices to the effort to stop the cuts. On Monday, the San Francisco Labor Council, who’s members face layoffs if funding is not restored, passed a resolution opposing the funding cuts. We need your support!
Please join us, on Monday the 18th, in urging
Congress to fix the public housing funding crisis:
12:30 Press Conference on City Hall Steps
1pm Board of Supervisors Hearing in City Hall (Board Chambers)
You can also send a letter to Congress online at ww.local-impact.org. For more information contact Sara [at] hrcsf.org.
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Have you ever been forced to live among these "tenants." Perhaps you were one of the tenants yourself, hence have a biased view of their effects on small communities. Dr. Kling, et. al., found that those given subsidized housing in nicer communities did worse than the control mean regarding many scales of measurement. Howard Husock of Harvard shows that public housing decimates smaller communities and spikes the unemployment rate. What a shocker eh? I mean God knows that when you are allowed to live for free, jobs are not eagerly sought.
The worst projects in the nation, of Chicago, have closed and are being demolished. Guess whos absorbing these ghettoized people? You guessed it, downstate small communities. Mostly those who push "free housing" dont have to live w/ it. No, that is reserved for the lower middle class. Those who push the policy get to retreat to their gated communities, while little citys' schools are destroyed, their rape robbery and murder rates are spiked, and neighborhoods become drug and gang havens. Those who push this idiocy usually "believe" w/ all their bleeding heart that its not "free housing to reinforce unwillingness to work," yet "government aid to give opportunity." What a disaster. Whats the truth then? When you want the truth, get the facts... very simple. Lets look at the empirical data of just one of these tiny towns, and how its been effected by the graces of public housing authorities. We can goto ANY small town though and find the same effect:
MURDER AND AMBIENT CRIME STATISTICS:
Arrests in Danville of those reporting they're from Chicago. *does not include those who have Danville residency yet are from Chicago:
2002 - 63 arrests; 2003 - 92 arrests; 2004 - 119 arrests; 2005 had 43 arrests in first few months.
First off, its fair to say that Danville has had its own share of murders and these usually happen b/c of gang-land shootings and drug wars. Interestingly, Danville's home grown killers are disproportionately those or decendents of those from the 1st Chicago diaspora from the late 70's w/ the building of the Danville prison.
Murders in Danville by year:
1996 = 0; 1997 = 2; 1998 = 4; 1999 = 1; 2000 = 4; 2001 = 1; 2002 = 1; 2003 = 6; 2004 = 6
From 1996 to 1999 Danville experienced 7 murders. From 2000 to 2004 there were almost triple that number of murders. Can we attribute the murder increase to Chicago? Here are the data:
-In 2000, Jermaine Blake, Tyrone Jackson, and Bernice McClain, all from Chicago, kill a Danville man;
-In 2001, Nathaniel Adams, of Chicago, kills Danville man;
-In 2002, a murder is unsolved and a Chicago man is suspected (no details);
-In 2002, Roy grubs is killed by a juvenile decendent of Chicago;
-In 2003, Charone taylor of Chicago kills a 45 yr old woman. He was just paraoled from another murder. Jawaun Clasberry, and his brother Clyde also participated in the killing and they too are from Chicago. Clyde is listed as a Danville resident b/c he has housing under DHA. He obviously brought these thugs w/ him.
-In 2003, a Mr. Bunkley of Chicago stabs a man to death in Danville;
-In 2003, Kevin Thomas of a Chicago suburb murder a Danville resident;
-In 2003, 4 Chicago Latin King gang bangers kill Danville resident Billy Thomas, and shoot his friend in a robbery attempt;
-In 2003, Mr. Clark kills Danville man;
-In 2004, Mr. Galloway, from Chicago, kills Danville resident;
-In 2004, Davion Isaac, decendent of Chicago, kills Chad Spires;
-In 2005, Marlon Williams of Chicago stabbed a small town Danville kid 85 times to death, in robbery;
-The murders not accounted for above my be from Chicagoans who are listed as Danville residents now.
These data support that, although the raw number of Chicagoans who inhabit Danville are very small compared to the 34,000 Danville population, they contribute overwhelmingly and disproportionately to the murder rate.
2002 and 2003 saw a large number of Chicago disperates. The murder increase speaks for itself. Here are other crime spikes during that period:
500% increase in murder; 150% spike in vehicle theft; 200% increase in murder suspect arrests; arson arrests up 100%; hypodermic needle arrests up 200%; theft arrests up 26%; persons commiting crimes against school personnel doubled; domestic crimes arrests up 10%; hate crime arrests up 400%.
From 1999 to 2000 there was a 2,143 person population increase, and that same year experienced a 300% murder increase. From 1996-1999 the population saw no increase and its murder rate was its average of under 2/yr. Starting w/ the population spike of 2000, Danville's murder avergae about doubled. Danville's total crime index also rose by 114 points from 1999-2000.
The CHA calls their plan to fill non-Chicago communities w/ their refuse, "A Plan for Transformation." they have help from Chicago's "Inner Voice," a group that seeks to place the cities poor in surrounding communities.
The diaspora from Chicago are mainly citizens who were not under the umbrella of the CHA, though they were benefiting from other programs. DHA's Richard Unz told me in a 2005 interview that most of the Chicago people are from other housing programs.
To Danville the CHA retorts that very few CHA residents live in under DHA (Danville), but they do not explain the fact of the many from CHA on DHA waiting lists.
Richard Unz told me (2005 interview) that, there were 540 Section 8 (S8) units available under DHA, including two projects that are not under DHA (Fair Oaks and Beeler Terrace). He went on that there are 1,800 S8 units in Danville aside from DHA's. So purely S8, we are at 2,340 units in Danville, a city of 34,000 people. There are more government housing funds beneficiaries that I can explain if you're interested. Basically, after I did the math, 12% of Danville's total population is living in government funded homes of some sort. The percentage is probably higher, as the 12% figure inheres to the national average that, 84% of recipients are single mothers, and the 12% assumes this 84% w/ only 1 child. As we know, an huge amount of these women have more than one child, not to mention the common practice of inviting boyfriends and relatives to cohabitate. If we assumed that the 84% have 2 children, then almost 1 in 5 Danville residents live in subsidized housing.
Mark Drolinger of the Hoopeston police tells me that, "it seems like 1/2 of our arrests are of S8 people, and Cook County seems to be the biggest contributor." In the 1st few months of 2005, Drolinger said they repossessed more weapons of Chicagoans than any other. Hoopeston PD's Doug Wagoner told me that a disproportionate amount of calls are in response to what used to be apts. for the elderly but are now public housing, Centenial Courts. He says that often Danville criminals are caught robbing, and selling crack in tiny Hoopeston.
The worst projects in the nation, of Chicago, have closed and are being demolished. Guess whos absorbing these ghettoized people? You guessed it, downstate small communities. Mostly those who push "free housing" dont have to live w/ it. No, that is reserved for the lower middle class. Those who push the policy get to retreat to their gated communities, while little citys' schools are destroyed, their rape robbery and murder rates are spiked, and neighborhoods become drug and gang havens. Those who push this idiocy usually "believe" w/ all their bleeding heart that its not "free housing to reinforce unwillingness to work," yet "government aid to give opportunity." What a disaster. Whats the truth then? When you want the truth, get the facts... very simple. Lets look at the empirical data of just one of these tiny towns, and how its been effected by the graces of public housing authorities. We can goto ANY small town though and find the same effect:
MURDER AND AMBIENT CRIME STATISTICS:
Arrests in Danville of those reporting they're from Chicago. *does not include those who have Danville residency yet are from Chicago:
2002 - 63 arrests; 2003 - 92 arrests; 2004 - 119 arrests; 2005 had 43 arrests in first few months.
First off, its fair to say that Danville has had its own share of murders and these usually happen b/c of gang-land shootings and drug wars. Interestingly, Danville's home grown killers are disproportionately those or decendents of those from the 1st Chicago diaspora from the late 70's w/ the building of the Danville prison.
Murders in Danville by year:
1996 = 0; 1997 = 2; 1998 = 4; 1999 = 1; 2000 = 4; 2001 = 1; 2002 = 1; 2003 = 6; 2004 = 6
From 1996 to 1999 Danville experienced 7 murders. From 2000 to 2004 there were almost triple that number of murders. Can we attribute the murder increase to Chicago? Here are the data:
-In 2000, Jermaine Blake, Tyrone Jackson, and Bernice McClain, all from Chicago, kill a Danville man;
-In 2001, Nathaniel Adams, of Chicago, kills Danville man;
-In 2002, a murder is unsolved and a Chicago man is suspected (no details);
-In 2002, Roy grubs is killed by a juvenile decendent of Chicago;
-In 2003, Charone taylor of Chicago kills a 45 yr old woman. He was just paraoled from another murder. Jawaun Clasberry, and his brother Clyde also participated in the killing and they too are from Chicago. Clyde is listed as a Danville resident b/c he has housing under DHA. He obviously brought these thugs w/ him.
-In 2003, a Mr. Bunkley of Chicago stabs a man to death in Danville;
-In 2003, Kevin Thomas of a Chicago suburb murder a Danville resident;
-In 2003, 4 Chicago Latin King gang bangers kill Danville resident Billy Thomas, and shoot his friend in a robbery attempt;
-In 2003, Mr. Clark kills Danville man;
-In 2004, Mr. Galloway, from Chicago, kills Danville resident;
-In 2004, Davion Isaac, decendent of Chicago, kills Chad Spires;
-In 2005, Marlon Williams of Chicago stabbed a small town Danville kid 85 times to death, in robbery;
-The murders not accounted for above my be from Chicagoans who are listed as Danville residents now.
These data support that, although the raw number of Chicagoans who inhabit Danville are very small compared to the 34,000 Danville population, they contribute overwhelmingly and disproportionately to the murder rate.
2002 and 2003 saw a large number of Chicago disperates. The murder increase speaks for itself. Here are other crime spikes during that period:
500% increase in murder; 150% spike in vehicle theft; 200% increase in murder suspect arrests; arson arrests up 100%; hypodermic needle arrests up 200%; theft arrests up 26%; persons commiting crimes against school personnel doubled; domestic crimes arrests up 10%; hate crime arrests up 400%.
From 1999 to 2000 there was a 2,143 person population increase, and that same year experienced a 300% murder increase. From 1996-1999 the population saw no increase and its murder rate was its average of under 2/yr. Starting w/ the population spike of 2000, Danville's murder avergae about doubled. Danville's total crime index also rose by 114 points from 1999-2000.
The CHA calls their plan to fill non-Chicago communities w/ their refuse, "A Plan for Transformation." they have help from Chicago's "Inner Voice," a group that seeks to place the cities poor in surrounding communities.
The diaspora from Chicago are mainly citizens who were not under the umbrella of the CHA, though they were benefiting from other programs. DHA's Richard Unz told me in a 2005 interview that most of the Chicago people are from other housing programs.
To Danville the CHA retorts that very few CHA residents live in under DHA (Danville), but they do not explain the fact of the many from CHA on DHA waiting lists.
Richard Unz told me (2005 interview) that, there were 540 Section 8 (S8) units available under DHA, including two projects that are not under DHA (Fair Oaks and Beeler Terrace). He went on that there are 1,800 S8 units in Danville aside from DHA's. So purely S8, we are at 2,340 units in Danville, a city of 34,000 people. There are more government housing funds beneficiaries that I can explain if you're interested. Basically, after I did the math, 12% of Danville's total population is living in government funded homes of some sort. The percentage is probably higher, as the 12% figure inheres to the national average that, 84% of recipients are single mothers, and the 12% assumes this 84% w/ only 1 child. As we know, an huge amount of these women have more than one child, not to mention the common practice of inviting boyfriends and relatives to cohabitate. If we assumed that the 84% have 2 children, then almost 1 in 5 Danville residents live in subsidized housing.
Mark Drolinger of the Hoopeston police tells me that, "it seems like 1/2 of our arrests are of S8 people, and Cook County seems to be the biggest contributor." In the 1st few months of 2005, Drolinger said they repossessed more weapons of Chicagoans than any other. Hoopeston PD's Doug Wagoner told me that a disproportionate amount of calls are in response to what used to be apts. for the elderly but are now public housing, Centenial Courts. He says that often Danville criminals are caught robbing, and selling crack in tiny Hoopeston.
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