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50 Low-Income Renters Targeted For Eviction

by Whistle Blower
Wealthy San Francisco State University Board Member Is Behind The Scheme To Evict 50 Units Of Low-Income Housing At The Pacific Renaissance Plaza In Oakland, Ca.
50 Low-Income Renters Targeted For Eviction

Oakland Ca-- 50 units of low-income housing are
scheduled for eviction during July of 2003.

After a ten year contract comes to a close in July 2003, for a low-income housing set aside project, 50 units of mainly Cantonese speaking immigrants are soon to be dumped upon the streets of Oakland with no where else left to go.

Oaklands Measure EE Just Cause Evictions Ordinance does not cover or protect units built after 1984, and No Cause Evictions are legal for unprotected rental units.

Wealthy Hotel Magnate Lawrence Chan the founder and CEO of Park Lane Hotels International, plans to expand his profit's by evicting poor local immigrants in Oakland, at 989 Webster Street.

The property is being managed by International Hotelier
Management Corporation located at 388 9th Street, Suite 228, Oakland CA. Phone number 510/251-6448.

Local activists are urging everyone and anyone to reach out by phone, fax, or e-mails, to protest and stop the evictions of the low-income immigrant renters before it's too late.

Lawrence Chan is behind the evictions of 50 units of
low-income housing at the Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland, Ca, scheduled for July 2003. Mr. Chan's activities of greed and malice are reprehensible and must be challenged by any means necessary.

Local activists urge the community to be creative in it's ways to challenge Lawrence Chan and his overbloated capitalistic ruthless nature to profit upon the helpless.

Lawrwnce Chan resides in Hillsborough Ca.
(Population of 10,825 -- Rich S.F. Businessmans Town) A call to phone information in Hillsborough requesting his home phone number, a recording states that the "customer" requests his number not to be provided.

Hillsborough City Council Meetings are scheduled for
the second Monday of each month at 6p.m. No Newspapers for that City, and 3 Bulletin Boards listed for info from City Hall.

(Hillsborough Town Hall -- 1600 Floribunda Ave)

Lawrence Chan "may" or "may not" be reached at the
following locations.

Hong Kong Association of Northern California

Found on List of Board of Directors

41 Sutter Street, Suite 1748
San Francisco, CA 94109
Tel: (415) 398-4506
Fax: (415) 392-2964
Email: ed [at] hkanc.com

Website: http://www.hkanc.com

***************
Lawrence Chan -- SFSU Foundation Board of Directors

Phone 415/ 338-2297 Fax 415/338-2670

10 North State Drive, Room 116
San Francisco, Ca. 94132


http://www.foundation.sfsu.edu/board_of_directors2.htm

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Profile of Lawrence Chan


Lawrence Chan
President and CEO, Chief Executive Officer

President and CEO, Park Lane Hotels International
President & CEO, C&L Financial, Inc.

Lawrence Chan is the CEO and founder of Park Lane
Hotels International and C&L Financial Inc., which
develop and operate hotels and real estate projects
across United States and Asia. Projects in the Bay
Area - the 1009 rooms Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco; the City Center Marriott Hotel and
Courtyard by Marriot in downtown Oakland; the San Jose Marriott (opens in 2003); and the 1.2 million sq. ft.
mixed use retail/residential/commercial Pacific
Renaissance Plaza in the East Bay.

Mr. Chan has served as a member of the White House
Board of Advisors on Private Sector Initiatives under
President George Bush, the Presidential Round Table
under Senator Phil Gram. He was formerly the Co-Chair of the San Francisco-Shanghai Sister City Committee, and has received awards including numerous proclamations by the California Secretary of State and State Assembly, and the Key to the City presented by the then Mayor of San Francisco, Senator Diane Fienstein.

He has served on the Boards of Trustee of the
Hillsborough School Foundation, the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce and the San Francisco Symphony. He is
currently chairman of the SFSU College of Business
Advisory Board, and sits on the Board of the Hong Kong
Association of Northern California.

Mr. Chan received both his B.S.B.A. and M.B.A. from
the University of Denver in Colorado.
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