Housing Now! – Displacement is Global

Photo:
8-12-01
San Francisco, CA
Banner hung from balcony of vacant city-owned property occupied by Homes Not Jails squatters reads: “Solidarity With The 2 Million Displaced Colombians”.

A supporter of the Colombia Support Network handed out fliers titled: “Displacement Is Global”

The flier stated:
“The same factors that force people on to the streets in the U.S. are at work around the world. CORPORATE INTERESTS, the “WAR ON DRUGS” and the targeting and CRIMINALIZING OF PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THE POOR are pushing people out of their homes here and in Colombia.
The recent $1.3 Billion in military aid from the U.S. for PLAN COLOMBIA increases the violence and human rights abuses forcing people from their homes in fear.”
For more information:
http://www.colombiasupport.net/

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Homes Not Jails Occupying Vacant City Property

Eight or nine people entered vacant city-owned property at 170 Fell Street Saturday Night.
They announced the location of the “squat” Sunday morning and held a press conference at noon.
Ted Gullicksen of Homes Not Jails told the assembled crowd of supporters and media that 170 Fell St. “could house well over 100 people…the same amount of people who died on the street last year”.

Information from Homes Not Jails Press Release:

170 Fell has been vacant for 11 years!
San Francisco has over 12,000 people who are homeless who are living on the streets. Each year, well over a hundred people die from being homeless in San Francisco.

“Empty public property should become housing for people who are homeless…
The state & federal governments have laws requiring vacant public property be used for housing people who are homeless (enforced?). San Francisco should too.”

Proposed legislation - as posted on http://www.sf.indymedia.org by Homes Not Jails:
http://www.indybay.org/display.php3?article_id=102934

Homes Not Jails’ website:
http://www.sftu.org/hnj.html