[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] RePHRAME and RPEC Call to Action! March 21st!

[Kenneth Yates]

This is a first step in a series of actions depending on how the board of
commisioners respond. Please come out.

--
Kenneth Yates • x370724 • Organizer • 804.317.1938 •
causticcastle at gmail.com• Richmond Industrial Workers of the World
(R-IWW)
 On Mar 16, 2012 12:48 PM, "Nathan Stickel" <incoherentnickle at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> From the Richmond Peace Education Center:
>
>
> [RPEC co-sponsored call to action]
>
> RPEC friend,
>
> The peace center is part of the RePHRAME coalition, which supports the
> needs and rights of Richmond's public housing residents.
>
> **We have been alerted to a situation and are calling for your help with a
> response.**
>
> Dozens of low income people who live in "scattered site single-family
> public housing" recently received letters from the Richmond Redevelopment
> Housing
> Authority stating that it plans to seek approval from HUD to sell off
> their homes. The letters warn the residents that they could be forced to
> move
> if HUD approves. (Their scattered site homes are  detached homes within
> neighborhoods and not large public housing complexes--some are found for
> example in Randolph).
>
> RRHA wants to sell off the houses and move the families into the city's
> older existing large public housing complexes. Many of
> those who received the letters are upset because they've lived in the
> houses for decades. They don't want to be forced to move, and don't wish
> to
> relocate to Gilpin, Mosby, etc. RRHA itself has argued that poverty should
> be deconcentrated---and yet these scattered-site homes threatened
> by potential sale are among the most "deconcentrated" that RRHA owns.
>
> Before they can ask  HUD for permission to sell the homes, RRHA must get
> their own Board of Commissioners to approve selling off the homes. In a
> public meeting on WED. MARCH 21 at 5:30, we expect RRHA's Board of
> Commissioners will consider and vote on a resolution giving RRHA the green
> light to seek HUD approval to sell the homes.
>
> Concerned Richmonders can and should call for a stop to further reductions
> of affordable housing, and to
> the planned dislocation of these Richmond families.
>
> **On March 21, please attend the RRHA Board of Commissioners meeting (5:30
> PM at 901 Chamberlayne Parkway, Richmond) to show support for the affected
>  residents, who will speak during the public comment period.**
>
> RePHRAME will select public housing residents to act as spokespeople at
> the meeting. RePHRAME thanks community
> partners for attending to show support, and to show the Board of
> Commissioners that the residents facing possible dislocation have broader
> community support.
>
> --
> Always with Solidarity
>
> Nathan
>
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