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THE ACTION......

 
Thousands of Voices, One Message – FUND AND BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING!

On January 20th, 2010 - Add your voice when thousands of concerned people from 10 US cities come together to demand that the federal government RECOMMIT to the Federal Housing Fund AND restore it to 1978 levels.
United together we represent the change the Obama Administration needs to take action on. We can no longer be separated by geography, language, income levels, skin color, sex, age or immigration status and idly watch as our communities are torn apart by neglect, greed and gentrification.
No Choice!

During the days before the Voting Rights Act in 1965, a group of civil rights leaders met with President Lyndon B. Johnson to ask for his support.  Even though the bill was met with fierce opposition, they argued that the country had a moral obligation to pass it. LBJ agreed, and then said: Make me do it.  Go organize your communities, so that I have NO CHOICE but to do what’s right.  

Our President supports our agenda but needs us to make it a reality. On January 20th, 2010 – he will hear our demands clearly and loudly. The Obama Administration will have NO CHOICE but to do what’s right!

Poor and homeless people are being harassed out of their communities, squeezed out of society, and herded into jails. We will talk about the unprecedented neglect in L.A., the outrageous greed in Portland, and the lack of real affordable housing in San Francisco and Oakland.  We will talk about a universal pattern of oppression from anti-homeless loitering laws to San Francisco’s sleeping laws to immigration checks at health programs and public schools to arrest histories in Public Housing.

 

On HOUSING:

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  Immediate restore HUD’s Federal affordable housing funding to comparable 1978 levels. (In 1978, HUD’s budget was over 83 billion – in 2009 it is a meager 38.5 billion dollars.)
  
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  Restore USDA new unit construction levels in rural communities to the $31,000 annually averaged between 1976 and 1985.
  
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  Enact a moratorium on the demolition, conversion or destruction of ANY publicly funded units until federal law guarantees one for one replacement at existing affordability rates.
  

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  Stop the proliferation of police and business improvement zone enforcement of “nuance crimes” or “quality of life crimes” programs. Congress and the White House must protect ALL people from local law enforcement programs that are designed to remove members of society targeting neighborhoods or communities.
  
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  Call for DOJ to respond to LA community request for investigation of discriminatory police enforcement under the Safer Cities Imitative that targets homeless, poor, people of color and disabled community residents.
  
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  Ensure that the more than 914,000 homeless children in our public schools are able to stay at their “home school” are fully integrated with their housed peers and are provided the support they need to learn and thrive.
  
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  Stop any and all questions regarding a person’s immigration status when they are requesting healthcare, emergency shelter or services