How Do We Measure Our Good Citizen Selves As Providing For The Common Good Of All Of Our Residents's Basic Needs ?
Out of the 29,977 San Francisco Residents are in need for safe, public housing, the best we can do is come up with 104 Units ?
This is FRIGGIN OUTRAGEOUS. IN EVERY U.S. CITY. Poverty Pimps... When YOU become homeless (those that make less than $20 Million a year), the people in power you paid taxes and corporate bonuses and campaign contributions WILL LEAVE YOU OUT IN THE COLD.
The City, State and Federal Governments and Non-Profits have seen fit to NEGLECT the needs of 29,873 San Francisco Residents.
SHAME ON ALL OF YOU. SHAME ON ALL OF US !
YOUR SOLUTION FOR 15 YEARS HAS BEEN TO WAREHOUSE & PROFIT BY KEEPING OUR PEOPLE IN SHABBY, RUN DOWN, HAZARDOUS, UNSANITARY, BEDBUG RIDDEN SHELTERS & SRO HOTELS - OFTEN RUN BY SLUM LORDS. BECAUSE WHY ?
BECAUSE YOU ALL APPEAR TO BE INCAPABLE OR UNWILLING TO HONOR OUR PEOPLE IN NEED AND PERFORM YOUR CIVIC, MORAL AND LEGAL OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE FOR -EVERY- RESIDENT'S MOST BASIC, EFFICIENT AND ECONOMICAL NEEDS, IN THE FORM OF LONG TERM, SAFE, AFFORDABLE PUBLIC HOUSING.
WE GET IT NOW.
AGENCIES AND NON-PROFITS HAVE ALLOWED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO PASS THROUGH THEIR HANDS TO -HELP- OUR MOST NEEDY, AT RISK AND IMPOVERISHED RESIDENTS. SOME THIRTY THOUSAND OF US !!!YOU CHOSE INSTEAD -- TO SET UP TEMPORARY REVOLVING DOORS IN YOUR PROGRAMS, WHERE EACH ONE OF YOUR LIVES WAS ENHANCED BY POWER, MONEY, SALARIES, COMMUNITY RESOURCES, WHILE OUR PEOPLE WERE HIDDEN AWAY IN TEMPORARY PROGRAMS, SHELTERS AND HOUSING, YEAR AFTER YEAR FOR 15 YEARS.
It's time for us all to make 30,000 Units in the next three years, OUR COMMON GOAL.
In 1906, we had 250,000 Residents homeless and our ancestors saw fit to mobilize without long meetings and processes and studies to completely rebuild housing and businesses for all 250,000 residents in less than five or ten years.
No more excuses. The FEDS failed us and locals stepped up to profit by never-ending temporary facilities and programs causing us all to lose time, tax money, community resources and lives only due to a lack of leadership to MEET THE REAL NEEDS NOW.
We know it's three to five times more expensive (and dangerous to our people's lives and health) to maintain never-ending, unsafe temporary programs and shelters, than it is to Bite Our Common Bullet and make a huge, sustainable investment to ERADICATE HOME-LESS-NESS, for at least these 30,000 Residents in need, now. That would end some 80% of problems caused by having our people wander the streets or cower in unsafe temporary SRO Units orbe targets on the streets for drug dealers, kidnappers (in the mission-our teens), violent police officers and would end most of the Toxic Assets created by the criminalization of our people who HAVE NO SAFE PLACE TO GO.
“As of January 14, 2009, the public housing waiting list was 29,977,” according to a Housing Authority report.
There are only 104 vacant units.
It's all so clear now.
We want permanent housing now in Our City and The Elite want to maintain temporary, unstable conditions to keep us all on the run and on the move as they skim off money and resources that SHOULD HAVE been spent on PERMANENT HOUSING SOLUTIONS.
No wonder so many of you keep fighting what Our Own Homeless and their advocates have been demanding all along.
We suffered while you all got pretty FAT and RICHER by keeping us on YOUR merry-go-rounds.... those days are over, so say goodbye to your greedy ways because we are going to push this to make it happen, once and for all. You made temporary solutions for permanent basic needs an ongoing, billion dollar business and you forget the object was permanent solutions to end homelessness, instead of providing you all with institutionalized, systemic cash flows by NOT SERVING US WELL.
You all got yours and left us all ( Thirty Thousand of Us) hanging to die 20 years premature in substandard habitations, streets and jails, which you likely made more profits by investing in those, too. Good for you. Are you happy now ?
You all got yours and left us all ( Thirty Thousand of Us) hanging to die 20 years premature in substandard habitations, streets and jails, which you likely made more profits by investing in those, too. Good for you. Are you happy now ?
No more scams, empty promises, campaign speeches, process games, town meetings for reform and the rest of those stall tactics to PROFIT FROM as you all stave off the inevitable final and just solution for all residents.
We must all find the sites and make it happen for ALL 30,000 OF OUR RESIDENTS, NOW.
And, we must acknowledge the reality that thousands more may be homeless in the next few years as well, as the banks and corporate scammers continue to economically devastate our people who are deep in debt as they move to take away what's left of our homes, land and valuable assets on our way down to new homelessness here and around the country.
So, we MUST meet Today's Needs and plan for more. Now is the time to act and do this next right thing. Lives are hanging in the balance.
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