[Sosfbay-discuss] Stop San Jose from Gutting Affordable Housing
Jim Stauffer
jims at greens.org
Fri Nov 6 15:33:06 PST 2009
I got a call from Sol Wachter of the Affordable Housing Network. The SJ city
council is poised to gut the funding of the Housing Dept., which includes the
low income housing subsidies. They will be deciding this next Tuesday about
2:30 at the Redevelopment Agency budget meeting, which follows the regular
city council meeting.
San Jose residents are encouraged to attend the meeting and speak out against
these cuts, or send a message to your council member.
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/council.asp
The story is...
The state is gutting local budgets. In SJ, $75M has been taken from the
Redevelopment Agency's budget. Part of that money is what funds the Housing Dept.
The only other funding source for Housing is borrowing money with repayment by
issuing bonds. Currently, no bank will lend them money under these conditions.
This means that housing subsidies for the poor will be curtailed.
Sol reported that the Redev budget for commercial property development is not
cut as much as housing.
Please make your voices heard.
Jim Stauffer
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