RePHRAME: Residents of Public Housing in Richmond Against Mass Eviction: Community Outreach Work Group Fri 4pm!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Community Outreach Work Group Fri 4pm!

Hey Everyone,

We will be having our second community outreach work group meeting this Friday March 5, 2010 from 4pm-5pm at Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC) located at the corner of 2nd & Broad St. 123 E. Broad St..

We will be discussing canvassing, the production of a regular print news letter, postering, leadletting, and new content for educational literature, and other strategies. If this sounds like something you would like to get behind please feel free to attend! The meeting will only be an hour!

The RePHRAME Concerns & Demands:

1. There should be 1-for-1 replacement of any public housing units lost through public housing redevelopment. In other words, there should be no net loss of public housing units. In addition, location of newly created public housing units, and other aspects of the redevelopment process, should increase the employment, education, and other opportunities of public housing residents.

2. Current residents should have the right to return to newly developed public housing without any additional screening or requalification process. In the past, additional credit checks and other screenings (above and beyond those to which public housing residents are routinely subjected) have been used to effectively prevent previous residents from coming back to the newly developed housing. We believe redevelopment should not be used to get rid of residents who have done nothing to warrant eviction.

3. Public housing residents should have a meaningful voice in decisions regarding their housing and communities. Currently only 1 out of 7 RRHA commissioners is a public housing resident. RePHRAME proposes adding 2 additional seats to the RRHA Board of Commissioners which would be filled with RRHA residents.

4. RRHA currently requires that residents mail their rent payment to a SunTrust bank address in Baltimore, MD. Residents must often pay late fees through no fault of their own due to delays in the mail system or processing delays in Baltimore. In February, hundreds of residents paid late fees when a blizzard caused the mail system to shut down. According to RePHRAME's research of dozens of housing authorities in Virginia and nationally, RRHA alone requires residents to mail rent out of state. RePHRAME surveyed hundreds of public housing residents in Richmond, and the overwhelming consensus is for a local rent payment option, at either the RRHA rent office in their neighborhood or at a local bank.

Also take a look at this ongoing petition:

Residents' Bill of Rights for Redevelopment

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Community Outreach Work Group Fri 4pm!

Who is RePHRAME?

Contact Us:

The RePHRAME Concerns & Demands:

RePHRAME Poster!

Take Action!

Individual & Partner Organizations:

Events, Past & Future:

Press:

Richmond City Officials:

External Links For Partner Organizations:

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