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Oakland's Section 8 Housing Voucher Reserves Are Being Looted To Fund A Proposed Project That Intends To Displace Oakland's Low-Income Community At The Tassafaronga Public Housing Village!...

Two weeks ago, I questioned whether it makes sense to challenge Newsom for re-election this November. He’s a very popular Mayor who will be hard to beat, and we can still pass most of our agenda because the Supervisors often have eight votes to override a veto. So when the Board passed the $28 million housing supplemental on May 1st by an 8-3 vote, I expected it would become a reality. But in a shameful display of arrogance, Newsom allowed it to become law without his signature, but said that...

Medi-Cal policy is imposing a share of cost that is unrealistic. Many Medi-Cal recipients are not on welfare but are offered assistance from the government because they make too much money to qualify for welfare but not enough to pay for health care costs. As a result, they must contribute to their healthcare by paying for a portion of the cost of the services they receive. The calculated amounts of share of costs for a family or individual do not consider the monthly housing costs in Calif...

San Franciscans working on the Immigrant portion of the People's Budget meet at City Hall to finalize their "ASKS" and then transmit them to aides from several friendly supervisors. The video shows the beginning and ending of the meeting with the aides. The slideshow in mid-video shows the preliminary planning meeting and more of the meeting with the aides. Ana Perez of CARECEN chaired the meeting. Four-minute QT movie. 57MB....

Local Attorney Says That Reports Make It Seem More Sordid At The BHA Than Things Really Are!...

After a year of struggling to save their homes, the tenants at 1030 Post Street can rest easy – they are covered by rent control, and the landlord’s scheme to make their units “affordable” by raising the rent is dead. On May 21st, an Administrative Law Judge at the San Francisco Rent Board ruled that the units are covered by the Rent Ordinance, as amended last fall by the Board of Supervisors. This concludes the saga of a real estate developer who manipulated a tax-exempt program to “create” ...

Former Boston Globe reporter Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America, will speak by phone on Bathrobespierre's Broadsides, FRSC's late Sunday morning talk show 10 AM - 11:30 AM, May 27th. Whitaker has done recent research on the 24-fold increase in diagnosis of youth "requiring" psychiatric medication and its devastating impact....

Troubles At The Bekeley Housing Authority Result In The Proposal Of Mass Firings!...

San Francisco - About 100 Seniors gathered on May 15 for a midmorning rally on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall to declare that "Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Will Not Be Tolerated in San Francisco!" The Seniors carried placard signs in Vietnamese, Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Russian, and English. The rally, organized by the Institute on Aging in San Francisco, is the sixth rally held in San Francisco to publicize the issue and problem of elder and dependent adult abuse....

The City of Fresno delivered three portable toilets and a dumpster to a homeless encampment on H street today. These services are expected to be a temporary solution to improve the health and sanitation in the encampment. The city plans to purchase property to set up a “free zone” where homeless people can live. The new encampment will have portable toilets, trash bins, and more....