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More Homeless Women Speak Out in Fresno 
This is a first hand account of what it is like to be homeless in Fresno....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 10:48am PST
Attacks on the Homeless Continue in Fresno 
Charles Montgomery (photo below) shows where his shelter had been last week. On Wednesday, a bulldozer operator who would not identify who he worked for, came through and destroyed Charles and Steve’s shelter. Is this a violation of the Temporary Restraining Order issued in Federal Court last month?...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 6:33pm PST
Tenant Hero Bao Yan Chan, the Heart and Soul of the Community Tenants Association, Dies at 88 Bao Yan Chan, who was in the forefront of nearly every San Francisco tenant struggle at City Hall over the past two decades, died this week at age 88. Mrs. Bao Yan Chan was born on August 4, 1918 in Shanghai, China. At the age of twelve, she and her family moved back to their hometown of Shun Duk in Canton Province. In China, she was a teacher and dean of an elementary school for 25 years. She came to the United States in 1984 and has been a strong leader for the Chinatown-based Community Ten...
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 7:01am PST
Chronicle Gets Homeless Funding Story Completely Wrong The San Francisco Chronicle’s three-part “Shame of the City” series this week ended October 31 with an article, “Money well spent? The City Can’t Tell.” According to the Chronicle, “the number of people living on the street is down but the city is still unable to track in a meaningful way the performance of nonprofit groups it pays tens of millions of dollars a year to provide services.” That’s a pretty harsh indictment---and it is also false....
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 8:51am PST
Prop 90 = the End of Rent Control, Minimum Wage, Environmental Regulations The most dangerous measure on November’s ballot is Proposition 90—a measure which will severely restrict San Francisco’s rent control law, condo conversion law, housing & habitability codes and affordable housing laws like inclusionary zoning requirements. At worst, Proposition 90 would render rent control unenforceable, effectively repealing it....
Posted: Sat, Oct 28, 2006 12:41pm PDT
Today Scott Givens announced that San Francisco is open to welcome the 2016 Olympics Angelo King the Project Area Committee (PAC) Chair announced that today, Oct 27, 2006 San Francisco is seriouly contending to bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to San Francisco. Children from the Visitation Valley Middle School, Bernhardt, and another school were brought in an given awards. Then Scott Givens who worked to bring the Salt Lake Olympics spoke and once again announced that Chicago and Los Angeles were strong contenders - but San Francisco stands a good chance to bring the Summer Oly...
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 9:03pm PDT
Jay and Geno are Homeless in Fresno 
I met Jay and Geno today. They live by the railroad track in downtown Fresno, not far from the Poverello House and Rescue Mission. Geno lives in the shelter pictured below. Jay lives about a mile away....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 2:09pm PDT
1030 Post Street Tenants Go to City Hall In the latest saga of 1030 Post Street, the tenants have taken their battle to City Hall in an effort to save their homes. KDF, an Orange County-based real estate developer, purchased their building and has tried to raise their rents or evict the tenants – while getting a tax break to “create” affordable housing. The tenants have already protested in front of their building and gone to the Rent Board. Meanwhile, they have undergone a nightmare of threats and intimidation from the management. ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 8:16am PDT
Mayor Gavin Newsom today at Burton High School to address City's issues Mayor Gavin Newsom is going to speak at Burton High School formely Wilson High School siutated at 400 Mansell. Gavin Newsom will address the state of City and I hope he mentions about the 3,400 signatures that he invalidated. I also hope he states whey young people are being rounded up and treated like dirt. Also, why so many poor and driven from place to place. Why we have so many crime and violence - the tally of those killed over 75....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 7:43am PDT
My Housing is Making My Family Sick 
Millie has five letters from her daughter's doctor stressing that the Alameda County Housign Authority find her healthier accomodation. So far her needs have not been met. Join Millie and the CRR at the Alameda County Board of Supervisers meeting on Tuesday Oct 31st. (See flier)...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 2:06pm PDT
African American Family Healing Center Launches New Violence Prevention Program Groundbreaking new project of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics unveiled at event in Western Addition...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 1:23pm PDT
Homeless Women Speak Out 
Two Fresno women tell us what it is like to be homeless in Fresno. The photo below is Pam Kincaid, as she told her story to the press in front of Fresno City Hall....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 1:22pm PDT
Bay Guardian Bayview Brouhaha With the November election just two weeks away, a disturbing dispute has sapped enormous energy out of San Francisco progressives. More disquieting, it has generally pitted white progressives (the “Bay Guardian” crowd) against black homeowners who live in the Bayview....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 7:20am PDT
SF: Prop H Opposed by Realtors & Democrat Mayor Newsom Two weeks before election day, November 7, the voters of San Francisco, tenants and homeowners, received a vicious lying multicolor slick mailer against the pro-tenant Prop H, endorsed by the real estate industry, the Republican Party and Democrats "Mayor" Gavin Newsom and Democrats Supervisors Elsbernd, Ma and Alioto-Pier....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 10:20pm PDT
Homeless Group Told to Leave Public Land 
While the homeless in Fresno are starting to stand up for their rights, they continue to be hassled. The photo and story below are about the ongoing harassment they are experienced. A lawsuit filed last week would force the City of Fresno to stop taking and immediately destroying homeless peoples property....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 8:20pm PDT
Maxwell’s Housing Agenda Sacrifices Tenants San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell will be easily re-elected on November 7. Maxwell pledged in 2001 to help preserve the city’s economic and racial diversity, but has increasingly moved to undermine this goal. She has promoted upscale development in the low-income African-American neighborhoods of Bayview and Hunters Point, and last week endorsed Lennar’s breaking its agreement to build 400 rental units at the Hunters Point Shipyard. Maxwell is also urging her colleagues to kill Angelo S...
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 8:07am PDT
Why I’m Voting NO on Prop 86 Proposition 86, the Tax on Cigarettes Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute, deserves a vote of NO on November 7. And here’s why I’m urging a NO vote....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 7:38am PDT
Hope VI Project Double-Crosses Oakland Renters Low-Income Oakland Renters Are Being Displaced By Hope VI Projects!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 11:50pm PDT
Fresno Homeless Camp out at City Hall 
The homeless issue has reached a new level of significance in Fresno as the homeless and their supporters are starting to take action to defend their civil rights. First, a lawsuit was filed by several civil rights legal groups against the City of Fresno to stop the attacks against the homeless. Late last week a Federal judge issued a Temporary Restraining Order to stop the police from taking the homeless peoples possessions and immediately destroying them. Yesterday, there was a rally in ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 9:42am PDT
An Affordable Studio, A View of the City, and Your First Private Kitchen in Years Bruce Allison hasn’t had a private kitchen in five years – now he cooks spaghetti in his studio apartment. David Boyd hasn’t had a private kitchen in eight years – now he cooks chicken breasts and baked potatoes. Jennifer Washington hasn’t had a private kitchen since 1992 – now she cooks chicken, sweet potatoes and peas. And Bob Bowers, a lifelong bachelor who hasn’t had a private kitchen in 24 years and has lost the habit of cooking, has so far made “beef stew, rice and that old-fashioned To...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 6:42am PDT
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