Cabrini Residents in Crisis, Stop the Evictions

Residents of 1230 Larrabee have been given 30 days to find a new home for their families.  They have been told that due to disrepair and low occupancy, (“breeding crime”), their homes are suddenly no longer safe.  Rather than making repairs, moving in families from the long waiting lists for affordable housing, CHA is attempting to relocate families to a site where the conditions are no better and the crime is worse.  Can you make sense of this?  Neither can we.  Let’s ask the people who made this decisions to explain this.  Let’s ask the people whose salaries are subsidized 100% by our tax dollars to do the simpler, the more humane, and the less expensive thing:

1. Stop the evictions of struggling families at 1230 Larrabee from their homes, schools, and communities

2. Make repairs that should have been made years ago with the rent and subsidies they’ve been receiving

3. Fill those vacant apartments.  20,000 rental units (homes) were impacted by foreclosure last year alone, and many folks are out of work or struggling on the low-wage jobs available to them.  We cannot afford to lose anymore housing for anyone!

Read more at: http://cbs2chicago.com/local/cabrini.green.tower.2.1704075.html

Contact:

Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, (202) 708-0417, secretary_donovan@hud.gov

Sandra B. Henriquez, Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, (202) 708-0950

Steve Meiss , Director of IL Office of Public Housing (312) 913-8300,  steven.e.meiss@hud.gov

Lewis Jordan, Chicago Housing Authority CEO, (312) 742-8500