The lack of affordable housing across the country has gained increasing attention in recent months. A report released earlier this year by the personal finance website SmartAsset found that in 12 of the top 15 US cities, rents had increased from 2015 to 2016. In some places, rent prices skyrocketed; San Francisco, Seattle and Miami all had increases of over 7 percent. In Los Angeles, average rental rates went up 17 percent.
San Diegans marched to city hall to hand over 5,000 petitions calling for rent control and 200 code compliance complaints against slumlords.
Renters and activists gathered at 4th and Broadway in downtown San Diego Thursday afternoon. They said they were fed up with slumlords and were demanding action.
This rally is part of a national day of action, calling for a freeze on all rent increases and a national livable rent standard to keep rents to 30 percent of a families' income.
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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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
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