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Yeah Yeah we met here with Mr CAIN members of his staff and three commissioners yesterday afternoon for 2.5 hours with the E. E. O. C. Area board. It was agreed at that meeting that the housing authority would

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hold up all evictions and all dispossessed actions pending a reexamination of them. We also told the IOC that we were re examining all of our rent procedures and that when we had we would issue new ones and that we were determined that whatever procedures we adopted

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would be administered at the project level with a ah warmth and decency and due regard to individuals dignity and that's all it's going to be said about that at this meeting today. We just no no this is going to be a we'll make it to the

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press were not this meeting was called for a bond issue when we're not going to discuss the Hunters point problem today? No we're not we're not I've made this sorry may have a vote on the motion and not only the motions made, the meeting is adjourned,

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cannot be adjourned now I'll listen to it but not in a meeting. I got the telegram and I've read it. I'm going to leave it. Harley were let's lock that door up in front. Alright, let's close that door, close the door to door. Close the door

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to door to door. We have long complained and long been ignored. We again rehearsed our complaint number one. The victims can no longer be done in the high handed manner. We see which has become routine. We we protest any eviction which is done without exhausting all

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methods of resolving the personal problems involved unless any of the other commissioners have anything to say or Mr CAIN. Oh What's the item? The item on the agenda is resolution number 1494. It's a resolution awarding 1,710,000 principal amount of new housing authority bonds. 6th issue of

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the Housing authority of the City and county of SAn Francisco. The resolution that we are asked to pass is as follows. Whereas the housing authority of the City and county of SAn Francisco here in called Local authority Has received in response to its advertisement sealed proposals

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for the purchase of 1720 18 $159 submitted by the morgan guaranty trust company of new york. First National City Bank Joint Manager and associates in the form here to our next as an exhibit is hereby accepted section two. The proposal. Well, I think we'll defer that

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to the next scheduled meeting. Yes, Mr Chairman. That now moved a german medium of the housing authority. Sure, well sir. Okay. All right, five Lock your arms five minutes. Lock your arms. Well, let me be san Francisco California. Dear, mr. Wilder. For years. We have protesters

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strongly the kind of treatment exemplified by the eviction attempt and Alice Griffith today that was yesterday protest the failure of the housing authority to here in our projects of rats and relatives. In spite of repeated appeals, he's answered this thousands of times. We demand the housing

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authority practice the practice of catering to jim Crow union shop stop now that manner. The group he had on a private basis for our job, we protest unjust charges for late rent payments, opening of apartment doors by housing authority personnel repair the windows and other installations.

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We protest automatic increases in rent with smaller. We demand that destruction of temporary unity until plans for new constructions are agreed upon. We protest the disgraceful way that garbage men and housing authority employees leave trash around our homes on. We demand that a decent supervised laundromat

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replace the filthy facility now in use in Hunter's Point. Right? We demand that the housing authority take policy stepped in to improve communications with the residents organizations, poverty program staff and other social service people in the 100 point area. And that's. We call for action on

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Mr CAIN's promises to paint buildings and do landscaping immediately. Right? We demand the transfers for health reasons be exceeded, right? These are major issues so far they have been ignored, right? We cannot wait any longer. We expect the media team and playing to stop all future

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evictions for whatever cause until our demands are met. This is signed by the Inter Black Council, which I am chairman of Sunnydale Citizen Lead Babe, Your Parents action groups, Hunters Point democrat clubs, Bayview Hunters Point Community Development cooperation to Bayview Community Center, Hunters Point, Bayview Ministry,

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Hunters Point Bayview Area Planning board of the O. C. Black Club eight West Point Improvement Club Black Club, Be Alice Griffin improve Improvement Club, Black Club, Be Northridge Improvement Club, Kiskeya Improvement Club 100 View Improvement Club. Black Club F. And Black Clubs will be some way

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we will not be moved. And so now I don't know what I have no other statement to make other than the one that I made up? Right way. Our fans putting it on the housing and the housing is putting it on the welfare. We want to

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know where it's coming from. We will not be moved. But you will. They got a ticket. Players were closed up. Right? Oh what what are your immediate plans? They'll get you open the door and everybody's leaving? I'm with the group. Well what are you going

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to do now? Well we haven't discussed that. Whatever. Whatever. Mr. Earl. What what are your immediate plans now that you've opened the door and everybody's leaving the room? Three. My immediate plans right now are to carry out any means necessary to get this program across. Because

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we are tired of Being promised and told that uh these things will take place when they're not. I've been living there 14 years And the same things that were happening 14 years ago are still happening today. Well what is the group going to do now? Is

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it leaves here? We will have a meeting and descending Willoughby. I would not make any decisions without consulting the majority of the people. Are you going to picket the housing authority? As uh some people were saying that they were going to do right now if necessary.

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I don't know for sure they haven't done in history. Mr walter. Do you have anything at all to say to this statement? Come on. Big shot. Make a statement. I have no other statement to make other than the one I made this at the beginning of

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this meeting. We're having met. You want you can play around start All right, when the long run these people or any other people can't look to the housing authority to cure the economic and social ills implicit in our society. The problem is one of jobs which

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the housing authority cannot create. Nobody wants to not pay their rent, they don't pay their rent because they don't have the money. Uh The other problem is that we have to keep this housing authority going. If we don't collect our rents and if we get more

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in arrears than we are, we could be put in Receivership, or ph could take us over and we've got to keep this authority going mr walter. At the outset of this meeting this morning, you said that all evictions at Hunter's point had been suspended for the

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time being. What is the official policy now of the Housing authority toward Hunters Point? While we're in the course of re examining all of our eviction and dispossessed policies, including our late red charges and are costs and all of these things. We had a draft of

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this and we were going to take it up at our next meeting. Ah hopefully of course these policies would be would relax the old stringent ones, but the most important thing about them is not the policies that we right, but that these policies must be administered

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at the project level with humanity, humanity, and decency, and due regard for individual dignity. Do you feel that this can be done? Well, it's got to be done, certainly it can be done and it will be done. Do you think this relaxation of uh of uh

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the policy as you say, is going to make these people happy? I don't think they can ever be completely happy. Now. I want to clarify what I mean by relaxation. I don't mean that we can forget our rents. I mean that we must give more time

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to investigate individual cases so that if people can get back to the council of the Economic opportunity, council have to do with this. I mean, what what is their responsibility? Well, they're working at their at hunters point and of course they have much more of a

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rapport with the tenants I suppose than our people do. And they are trying to help these tenants. Uh when we when Miss Robinson and I met with them two weeks ago, uh Their plea was that they wanted more time to investigate these eviction actions and they

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agreed with us that in the long run if people can't pay their rent, they have to go. So this will be taken up then at the next meeting of the housing. It will be on the agenda at the next meeting of the housing Authority. Thank you.

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Yeah.