Protest in San Francisco demanding funding for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund

[alp227]

Hundreds of affordable-housing advocates from all over the West Coast marched through downtown San Francisco on Wednesday to call for billions of dollars to be spent on helping lower-income people pay for housing.

Timing their demonstration to coincide with the one-year anniversary of President Obama's inauguration, representatives of dozens of organizations from Oregon to Los Angeles said they want immediate funding of the $1 billion Affordable Housing Trust Fund, a federal program approved by Congress but not supplied with money.

They also called for other programs to help people having trouble paying for housing.

The march - the biggest of its kind in several years - began at Justin Herman Plaza along the Embarcadero and wound up Market Street to the Civic Center.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/21/BA1G1BL527.DTL

[cutlassmama]

1. Good for them! We're tired of bailing out Wall Street and banks. Time for

the "people" of this country to get help. Jobs would be a great start.

[truedelphi]

5. My sentiments exactly. n/t

[Ignis]

2. Kick, thanks for the link to the story.

:kick:

[happy_liberal]

3. K&R

:applause:

[Quantess]

4. Rent money doesn't go far in SF.

[bobbolink]

6. I very much appreciate the demonstration and march.

The term "affordable" is very confusing, and very often, if not almost always, DOESN'T mean "low-income".

I've seen "affordable" housing beginning at $100,000, and lately, at $250,000.

It is a very misleading term.

The question is, WHO is the housing for? Will this really help those who are homeless because there is NOTHING they can afford?

AND, really poor people have been priced waaay out of buying.... all we can hope for is something to rent, and that is out of reach.

We need MASSIVE demonstrations, marches, and decending on congresscritters!

Thanks for posting this!