Is Bobo a he? At any rate, (S)he has a male alias

[Tucker]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1063985

GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun May-08-11 12:42 PM
Original message
In the aftermath of the tornadoes, a post about public housing.   Updated at 12:54 PM
   
Edited on Sun May-08-11 01:09 PM by GreenPartyVoter
This is a repost of my reply to the heartbreaking OP by Syrinx: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

We need public housing, now more than ever. Tell your Federal, State, and Municipal representatives to correct this shameful situation! http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.t... Get after the media for ignoring the situation: Amy Goodman and “Democracy Now!” http://www.democracynow.org/about/contact Rachel Maddow rachel@msnbc.com More media: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=111

• There are 9 million households in need of low-income housing. There are 6 million available units. http://www.nlihc.org/doc/FactSheet.pdf

• In the last several years, HUD has been tearing down thousands of low-income units across the country. http://www.cbpp.org/files/2-1-07hous2.pdf

• According to a 2001 HUD report, 1.14 million affordable housing units were lost between 1997 and 1999. There are many reasons for this loss, but among other causes, when HUD privatized the building of new units, the contracts stipulated that, at the end of the 20-year contract, the owner could opt to convert the units from subsidized to market value. As each development reaches this 20-year mark, many units are lost to conversion from low-income to market. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/hud-is-tryi...

• After Katrina, 4,000 low-income units were destroyed in New Orleans, although they could have been made habitable. None of these lost units was replaced. http://www.cbpp.org/files/2-1-07hous2.pdf

• During the negotiations to demolish the former New Orleans St. Thomas Housing Project in 2002, developers started out promising that 50% of the units would be affordable. But in the end only 9% were affordable one study showed. http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0218.html

• In Chicago, the Housing Authority demolished 3,300 units of public housing and planned to replace it with only 1,800 units, a loss of 1,500 units. http://news.change.org/stories/is-it-too-late-to-save-p...

• Over the past ten years, Atlanta has spent almost $15 million to bulldoze 15,000 units of public housing. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/us/21atlanta.html

• In many cities, there are no longer even waiting lists for subsidized housing. In Atlanta, although there were no vacancies available, an announcement was made that they would open a waiting list for one day. Thirty thousands people arrived to apply, some in line for days. 15K applications were handed out, and 62 people were taken to the hospital suffering from heat stroke. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/housing-crisis-reaches-...

And then this pops up from the homeless one.

bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun May-08-11 04:35 PM
Response to Reply #28
29. It is back to the days of ghettos and pushing poor people out.   Updated at 9:36 PM
   
That's what low-income housing was supposed to end, but we are LETTING it happen again.

Here is an excerpt from a comment on another site about facts I posted:

"Unfortunately, Washington Interfaith Network (WIN) is part of a larger group that is apparently committed to demolishing all public housing and replacing it with means tested owner occupied housing and the old fashioned urban renewal (razing) of areas that can’t be gentrified. I’m sure our church doesn’t support those things but they’re part of a group that does, because that’s what all the other local churches want."

This is up to ALL of us to stop this!

I hope you are working with people in your town to end this practice, and make sure there is enough low-income housing for ALL.

Thank you for sharing this..it is really appalling, but it just isn't what "progressives" want to be involved with now.

http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/poverty-is-the-worst-form-of-violence-gandhi-notes-from-the-homeless

Brian Robinson - LG May 3, 2011 at 7:02 pm

This is important information and I thank Rabbi Lerner for publishing it. I grew up in a church (Luther Place in DC) that dealt and still deals extensively with the homeless. I don’t go to church there often any more because I feel the neighborhood around it and some new parishioners there have grown so gentrified that they no longer see the problems of poverty as a pressing obligation affecting their neighborhood but more as a dutiful thing. It is hard to preach about social justice when your congregants are largely from a sole income group and work for the institutions you’re preaching about, unless the congregants themselves are motivated to do something about the issue. Unfortunately, Washington Interfaith Network (WIN) is part of a larger group that is apparently committed to demolishing all public housing and replacing it with means tested owner occupied housing and the old fashioned urban renewal (razing) of areas that can’t be gentrified. I’m sure our church doesn’t support those things but they’re part of a group that does, because that’s what all the other local churches want.

Am I reading this wrong? Did Bobo refer to this as her post on another site?

If I'm reading this wrong, please delete.

[JohnnyReb]

Am I reading this wrong? Did Bobo refer to this as her post on another site?

If I'm reading this wrong, please delete.

Maybe "it" has a roomate....which would explain the sign on the door handle..."Don't come a knock'n if the BUICK be rock'n".

[MrsSmith]

I think she meant it was a reply to something she posted.

[Tucker]

I think she meant it was a reply to something she posted.

There's only five replies. One of em has to be hers.

[zeitgeist]

There's only five replies. One of em has to be hers.

On the snipe hunt put me down for:

Editor’s Note: I received this information from a homeless woman named Bobbie.  It reminds us of why the GMP is so important and why the budget reductions of help to those suffering from poverty is such an immoral reality

Bobbie aka Bobolink aka Bobo the Hobo??

Looks like it could be bobo's work there.  She says the reply was to information she posted if I read it right.

[zeitgeist]

BTW I plan on spending more time on the link  you got that from to read more about the Rabbi and the Global Marshall Plan.  Seems to be quite a progressive site.  It is right in Bobo's wheelhouse.

Also note the reply from Bobbie with the smug "there will be a quiz" added in, yup it is Bobo all right.

[Tucker]

On the snipe hunt put me down for:
Bobbie aka Bobolink aka Bobo the Hobo??

Looks like it could be bobo's work there.  She says the reply was to information she posted if I read it right.

Great job. I never made the connection.

[Tucker]

BTW I plan on spending more time on the link  you got that from to read more about the Rabbi and the Global Marshall Plan.  Seems to be quite a progressive site.  It is right in Bobo's wheelhouse.

Also note the reply from Bobbie with the smug "there will be a quiz" added in, yup it is Bobo all right.

This from Bobo in the DU thread.

bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun May-08-11 03:47 PM
Response to Reply #21
25. Thanks, KoKo   Updated at 9:36 PM
   
There will be a quiz.