[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 17:18:53 EST 2011


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
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> 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> -----
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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
>>
>> 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.
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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.
>>
>> 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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