[Street] [kaymathew at juno.com: [act-ma] Join Low Income Tenants in Brighton Saturday December 3 to Celebrate a? Victory!]

Linda Jenkins lindajenkins177 at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 2 22:13:25 EST 2011


You all rock! Linda

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On Dec 2, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Reed <fb at occupyboston.org> wrote:

> 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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