Notice Courtesy of LaHitz Media.  Rally to Protest the Sale of Frederick Douglass Haynes Gardens

Related story: Mayor Willie Brown, Former San Francisco City Attorney Louise Renne, Leaders Stop Illegal Sale of Affordable Housing: http://www.wrightnow.biz/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=81625&columnid=2898 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 5, 2015   Residents, Community Members and Faith Leaders to Hold   Rally to Protest Proposed Sale of Low Income Housing   What:  Community groups and faith leaders will hold a rally for justice on behalf of residents from the 104-unit Frederick Douglass Haynes Gardens' apartment complex who are facing possible eviction or relocation from a proposed sale of the property.   The board of directors for the nonprofit running the 104-unit Fredrick Douglass Haynes Gardens at 1049 Golden Gate Ave. has gone rogue, threatening to sell a complex that was built specifically for affordable housing and to displace our city's most vulnerable residents.   Gardens residents, many of whom are Section 8 were for months told their apartments would not be sold, but were recently informed their homes are indeed for sale. Their units were marketed to buyers as potentially worth $3,000 to $7,000 in monthly rents, an impossible amount for current tenants to afford.   We are stunned that the nonprofit, installed by Third Baptist Church nearly 50 years ago specifically for the purpose of creating affordable housing in the neighborhood, could resort to this level of secrecy and greed. On Sunday, we will make it loud and clear that this board will no longer be able work in the dark while it sells out its own people.   Who:Rev. Amos Brown, pastor the Third Baptist Church and President of the NAACP San Francisco Branch will lead the vigil. Among the speakers will be Rev. Dr. Frederic Douglass Haynes III, pastor of Friendship Baptist West, Dallas, Texas and the social-activist grandson of the late revered pastor Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes, Sr. for whom the complex was named. Dr. Haynes will join in our growing call to end the greed that has permeated a nonprofit that has lost its way.   Tenants from Freedom West Homes (820 McAllister) along with other tenants and representatives from the Chinatown Community Development Center, Council of Community Housing Organization Committee and Save the Mission, the group behind a ballot measure to launch a moratorium on market-rate housing, so that the face of our city and its unique neighborhoods are not changed overnight.   When:                  Sunday, August 9                                 6:30 p.m.   Where:                   Third Baptist Church                                 1399 McAllister Street, San Francisco   Contact:               Rev. Amos Brown

Frederick Douglass Haynes Gardens is in the historic Fillmore.  

Mayor Willie L. Brown jr., former Mayor of San Francisco speaks about potential sale of Frederick Douglass Haynes Gardens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PYcUidtYfY Courtesy of Johnnie Burrell of www.internationalmediatv.com.

There is hope of the Fillmore:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Ziv9Hd30U&feature=youtu.be