Rally Against Displacement in San Jose CA Thursday May 19 at City Hall

SAN JOSE, Calif. - May 18, 2016 - PRLog -- Affordable Housing Network, CHAM Deliverance Ministry, and De Anza Renters Rights Coalition intend to celebrate Affordable Housing Week by rallying tenants, displaced, and homeless people to make their voices heard during the Housing 2.0 meeting at City Hall at noon on Thursday, May 19. Because they have not been included as panelists in the various events, low-income residents will bring their tents and banners to the door of the City Hall Rotunda to put forward their own agenda for Affordable Housing Week. They are demanding an immediate end to displacement, unjust evictions, and the cruel oppression of the homeless here in the richest valley in the world.

Some Silicon Valley leaders justify uprooting and banishing Silicon Valley's low-income workers by claiming that highly skilled tech workers are "more important" than the low-income service workers who sustain it with their labor every day. We are organizing to insist that we whose families built this valley are equally endowed with the same right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness as everyone else.

Silicon Valley's affordable housing crisis can be solved:

1)      Hold Wall Street Banks and Silicon Valley corporations accountable for paying their fair share of taxes to provide revenue for enough affordable housing to meet the need.

2)      Immediately enact strict and broad rent controls and outlaw unjust evictions, including repealing the state Costa-Hawkins law.

3)      Provide fair relocation and replacement affordable house for the 672 people who are being evicted out onto the streets at The Reserve Apartments in San Jose, and for all those threatened with eviction by future development.

4)      Establish sanctioned encampments or transitional housing communities to end the persecution of the homeless while permanent housing is built.

5)      Begin moving our rental housing stock into social ownership to ensure it is used for affordable housing for our people instead of for maximizing private profit.

6)   Become part of the political revolution sweeping across America, demanding real democracy to replace the corporate corruption that rules now in Sacramento and Washington, DC.

As Dr. King used to say, this is not the time for the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. What good will it be for Silicon Valley to gain the whole world, if it loses its soul?

TIME:    12 NOON THURSDAY, MAY 19

PLACE:  CITY HALL ROTUNDA DOOR, 200 EAST SANTA CLARA STREET, SAN JOSE

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