[Street] [kaymathew at juno.com: [act-ma] Join Low Income Tenants in Brighton Saturday December 3 to Celebrate a? Victory!]
Brett West
heavyriser at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 17:11:02 EST 2011
I'm calling them
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Reed Underwood <reed at fm2279.com> wrote:
> Anybody talked to these folks?
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> -Reed
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> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:52:00 GMT
> From: Kay Mathew <kaymathew at juno.com>
> To: act-ma at act-ma.org
> Subject: [act-ma] Join Low Income Tenants in Brighton Saturday December 3
> to
> Celebrate a Victory!
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> Brighton Tenants Stop Displacement
> Vow to Save Their Homes
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> Low Income Tenants in Brighton Save Their Homes!
> Join us Saturday December 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM to celebrate Warren Hall
> Apartments’ Victory!
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> Please join us at Warren Hall Apartments 335 Washington Street, Brighton
> (near St. Elizabeth’s Hospital). Including low income tenants from Warren
> Hall Apartments; supporters from the Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants and the
> Allston-Brighton community; invited representatives from HUD in DC and
> Boston, US Senator Scott Brown, Rep. Barney Frank, and State Representative
> Kevin Honan
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> In May, 33 low income elderly, disabled and working tenants at Warren Hall
> Apartments learned from Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants (MAHT) that the 40
> year HUD contracts that keep rents affordable at their apartments expire on
> December 1, 2011which would have left tenants with rents that tripled
> overnight. There were no tenant protections or subsidies to prevent
> displacement.
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> Yet Warren Hall Tenants Association won significant victories that give
> tenants at least five years time, plus new subsidy protections so that no
> one will be out on the street, and national legislation to preserve
> affordable housing. Vouchers will ensure that no one will be homeless and
> will reduce rents for 12 very low income elderly tenants.
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> The New York based absentee landlord had failed to comply with 40T. On
> Saturday, tenants will thank Rep. Kevin Honan (D-Brighton) getting the
> State to enforce Chapter 40T, a law that requires extra notice and a three
> year rent limitation from owners when HUD contracts end.
> Saturday’s speakers will include Warren Hall tenant leader Dave Horan, who
> along with other MAHT tenants secured a commitment from Washington HUD
> officials to provide Section 8 vouchers at Warren Hall.
> Speakers will also thank U.S. Senator Scott Brown and Rep. Barney Frank,
> who helped pass the HUD Appropriations bill two weeks ago allowing the
> subsidies at Warren Hall to be converted to “Project Based Vouchers.”
> This will allow the owner of Warren Hall to refinance and make needed major
> repairs while keeping low income rents. Brown co-sponsored the no-cost
> “Merkley-Brown” amendment to permanently save Warren Hall and up to 50,000
> similarly at-risk apartments nationwide.
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> On Saturday, tenants and supporters will call for additional legislation
> to save and fully fund affordable housing.
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> Speakers will also call on the current owner to sell to a nonprofit
> purchaser to make needed repairs and secure affordable housing for the
> Brighton community.
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> Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants
> 42 Seaverns Avenue
> Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
> 617.267.2949 or 617.233.1885
> saveourhomes.org/maht
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