[Street] [kaymathew at juno.com: [act-ma] Join Low Income Tenants in Brighton Saturday December 3 to Celebrate a? Victory!]
Reed
fb at occupyboston.org
Fri Dec 2 17:28:50 EST 2011
Yay! Thanks for calling them, Brett!
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 05:18:53PM -0500, Brett West wrote:
> Damn! I called them and their totally down to collaborate but don't know
> how much of a presence they can have on this short notice. They said they'd
> try to be there. Nice work Reed!
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Brett West <heavyriser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >>
> >> -Reed
> >>
> >> ----- Forwarded message from Kay Mathew <kaymathew at juno.com> -----
> >>
> >> 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!
> >> X-Mailer: Webmail Version 4.0
> >>
> >> Brighton Tenants Stop Displacement
> >> Vow to Save Their Homes
> >>
> >> Low Income Tenants in Brighton Save Their Homes!
> >> Join us Saturday December 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM to celebrate Warren Hall
> >> Apartments’ Victory!
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> On Saturday, tenants and supporters will call for additional legislation
> >> to save and fully fund affordable housing.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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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