I just heard an item on the WBAI Pacifica news. The Homeless have been
demonstrating because new low cost housing is being made available to the
poor. The housing is for families with incomes as low as $40,000 or $45,000.
The problem is that many working people in the city don't make $40,000.
Their incomes are $30,000. There is no affordable housing for them. Shelters
exist and a great deal of money is spent for them. But there's no permanent
housing The demonstrators were marching in front of an empty lot, owned by
the city, that had been just sitting there for 47 years. They would like the
city to build housing on this property in which they could afford to live.
Miriam