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Don't Buy My Home 671 Peralta Avenue
in San Francisco
Although Mayor Schaaf suggests I could just move to Oakland as San Francisco Developers Should be Allowed to
Build their Affordable Housing Requirements across the Bay!
San Francisco-February 28, 2015 - OK, it's the end of Black History Month and it's quite interesting as I lift my eyes off the battle for my home which is at the heart of the matter for San Francisco because my story typifies what so many have gone through--here I find an invitation of sorts to step right over to Oakland, CA. Thank you, Mayor Schaaf!
SF Business Times Story:
"The proposal would codify the kind of thinking that has already become both a punchline and a reality for low- and middle-class San Francisco residents: when rent gets too high, time to move to Oakland."
SF Chronicle Story:
"We're under huge pressure to provide housing for a growing population and working families, and if Oakland can build affordable housing for this population, it would be a huge gain for the cities and the region as a whole."(Miriam Chion-ABAG)
These decision-makers are serious! I didn't see a strong response from Mayor Lee to the contrary. Is this a case of good cop/bad cop and Schaaf floated this one to see what the response would be.
So it looks like a new SF City Neighborhood is going to be "SF West
Oakland."
Will low and moderate income families who are descendants of those who have built this City, say in the future that they were Schaaf-ted?!
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| Jacquie Taliaferro at Black Human Rights Council Meeting. ( Photo by Lance Burton, Planet Fillmore) |
What does that have to do with my foreclosure fight. First for years, I have been trying to get a modification on a predatory loan that slithered its way through Country Wide, World Savings, Wachovia and Wells Fargo. My goal was to add social services to the home, i.e. rent rooms out to Veterans in need to pay the banks their money and do some social good as well. The Kinsman Redeemer concept or something similar can make an affordable difference to a lot of homeowners.
In a matter of less than six months, my family home of 50 years, bought by my World War II Veteran father, who served over 30 years for the U.S. Postal Service, went from a modest affordable home to over $1.3 million, that not even a firefighter, police officer, teacher, nurse, could afford without a hefty inherited family trust.
So the Mayor's Office on Housing working for a solution to help Blacks stay in San Francisco to stem the Out Migration, did nothing, nor many of the other government officials I contacted. There's something wrong in Denmark when there is nothing that can be done to help homeowners as they face $ billion dollar corporations.
Take a moment, now or at least later to see my concerns.
Help make the governmental and financial systems that would give advantage to investors, like Christopher and Angela Gibbs, an advantage over distressed homeowners as myself, reverse their perverse ways.
Olson Lee, Mayor's Office of Housing
and Community Development
(415) 701-5500
Tell him to present a plan that helps families in foreclosure and a plan to help Black homeowners remain in San Francisco and help restore the Stowers property.
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Yours in Solidarity for The Best San Francisco For All,
Jacquie Taliaferro
San Francisco Native
San Francisco NAACP Media Chairperson
San Francisco Filmmaker
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