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June 2004. CES tenant leaders participate in a protest outside the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Washington, D.C. The action was protesting the Bush Administration's severe cuts to the nation's affordable housing and rent subsidy programs. The demonstration was sponsored by the National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT), which CES is affiliated with. It was part of the activities of NAHT's annual Save Our Homes Conferences attended by hundreds of HUD tenants from throughout the nation.
June 2004. CES members and other tenant leaders from across the nation speak out against cuts to the Section 8 rent subsidy program and other affordable housing funding outside HUD Headquarters.
June 2004. CES members, who are leaders of the Hollywood West Apartments Tenant Action Committee, a complex owned and controlled by HUD tenants, join the protest outside HUD Headquarters.
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May 2004. Gilbert Lindsay Manor Tenant Association President Pastor Joyce Chapman, a key CES tenant leader, questions HUD officials at a HUD Tenants' Eyes and Ears meeting, held in conjunction with the Annual Housing California Conference in Sacramento.
May 2004. CES tenant leader Cora Parks, a resident in a HUD subsidized building, Holiday 101A Apartments, located in South Los Angeles, confronts HUD officials at a HUD Tenants' Eyes and Ears meeting, held in conjunction with the Annual Housing California Conference in Sacramento.
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May
12, 2004.
The L.A. City Council unanimously voted to increase relocation assistance to
tenants covered by the City's Rent Stabilization Ordinance facing 'no fault'
evictions. This is a tremendous victory for tenants and tenant advocates.
Approximately 30 CES tenant activist member attended the Council meeting. The ordinance was proposed by Councilmember Eric Garcetti. The increase for "qualified" households (seniors, disabled and those with dependent children) goes to $8,000 from $5,000 and $3,200 from $2,000 for other households. CES was last successful in securing a relocation assistance increase was in 1987. At that time, the City Council assured CES and tenant activist that it would look at the amounts three years after for the purpose of adjusting the amounts based on the impact of inflation. Sixteen years after the last increase and 13 years after the Council was to look at adjusting the amounts again, relocation assistance amounts were increased. Just another example of the wheels of government moving slowly. Nevertheless, this is a great victory for tenants that brings us a little bit closer to securing just compensation for displaced tenants. |
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January 22, 2004.
CES Executive Director Larry Gross gives a presentation to
housing Deputy staff of Los Angeles City Council Members
on issues pertaining to the preservation of private and
HUD subsidized affordable housing.
The session was organized by Call to Action, an alliance of 45 tenant rights, affordable housing, homeless and legal aid advocacy group in the L.A. area, which CES is a member of. Other issues presented by other Call to Action members included urging positions to enhance and protect rent control, public housing, the city’s Housing Trust Fund and residential hotel housing. |
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January, 2004.
CES
member contingent marches in support of striking grocery store
workers. The protest held on January 31, 2004 in Inglewood, brought out
20,000 people in support of the workers.
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October 23, 2003. CES Tenant Organizers describes lead paint hazards and code violations at an Echo Park building CES is organizing to advocates participating on a bus tour organized by the Healthy Homes Collaborative.
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June 22, 2003. Former CES HUD Tenant Outreach and Organizing Coordinator Franklin Campos explains HUD's Mark to Market program, together with former CES Tenant Organizer Yuisa Gimeno at a workshop they conducted by the annual conference of the National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT).
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