I am a 55 yr. old permanantely disabled woman who lived in a Section 8 home for 20+ years. Unfortunately, I was terminated by section 8 unfairly, as there decision did not take my disability, domestic violence, nor my witnesses and proof seriously. The case was based on my abusers letter to SHRA and would have never happened without it. I am virtually homeless, (living in a negative enviornment), and the enviroment I am forced to live in has put any healing to a STOP!
San Francisco officials are claiming victory in a dispute with federal housing officials regarding a city effort to combat gentrification.
The city had aimed to help low-income residents secure preferences when applying for a new senior housing complex; this week the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it will allow an "anti-displacement" preference for residents living in certain neighborhoods experiencing rapid gentrification.
The mission of SFHDC is to foster financial stability through the development of affordable housing, the facilitation of homeownership and the economic empowerment and revitalization of Bayview Hunters Point and other neighborhoods of Southeast San Francisco.
The recent decision by federal housing officials to reject a local measure aimed at easing the effects of San Francisco’s housing crisis on low-income and minority residents will further displace some of the city’s most vulnerable communities, the city’s top lawyer said.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) denial of San Francisco’s neighborhood preference plan “is wrong as a matter of law and public policy,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera wrote in a letter to HUD Secretary Julián Castro on Thursday.
Hamilton Families is San Francisco’s leading service provider to homeless families, with carefully designed programs to prevent homelessness, provide shelter and stability, return families to permanent housing and support the well-being of children experiencing homelessness.
Programs
1) Hamilton Shelter Program
2) Hamilton Transitional Housing (San Francisco & East Bay)
ELACC develops and coordinates affordable housing projects in Los Angeles, offers support programs for local residents, and advances tenant right protections through community inclusion in workshops and advocacy-related events.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday July 27th
Contacts: Aimee Inglis, Acting Director, Tenants Together: 415-495-8100 x 1001, aimee@tenantstogether.org
Amy Schur, Campaign Director, ACCE: (213) 804-3161, aschur@calorganize.org
Californians for Affordable Housing:
The LA Tenants Union is a diverse, tenant-led movement fighting for the human right to housing for all.
To mobilize tenants in a city as diverse and expansive as Los Angeles, the LA Tenants Union is establishing local chapters. Locals organize around neighborhood issues and help link neighborhood struggles to the larger movement for housing justice.
Eastside
Today, Tenants Together, along with a majority of our member organizations, joined a broad coalition of housing rights activists concerned with the Governor's "By-right" development proposal. While we don't disagree with the need to build more housing in California, especially affordable housing, bypassing the community process for development means low-income tenants will get the short end of the stick.