Affordable housing champion Supervisor Chris Daly is joined by
activists at City Hall Monday to announce the collection of over
11,800 signatures for a June ballot measure that mandates 50 percent
of all housing built by Lennar to be affordable to residents with
incomes between 30 and 80 percent of median income.
Supervisor Chris Daly held a press conference yesterday to announce
the collection of 11,800 signatures from city residents for a
June ballot affordable housing measure.
The Bayview
Affordable Housing Initiative would mandate 50 percent
of all housing built by Lennar to be affordable to residents with
incomes between 30 and 80 percent of median income. Lennar has
pledged to make 25 percent of news homes affordable.
The initiative would also mandate the phased rebuilding of Alice
Griffith Public Housing residents while protecting residents from
displacement.
Joined by activists, ministers, and residents of Bayview Hunters
Point, Daly said of the herculean signature gathering effort,
"Our resolve was tested, and our resolve withstood the challenge."
"Lennar says they are going to build 25 percent affordable,
but their measure is not codified. There are no guarantees,"
Daly reported.
The Department of Elections has up to 30 days to certify the
petition for the measure to be placed on the June ballot.
Grateful Dead reunite for Obama
The three remaining members of the Grateful Dead rock group reunited
Monday in San Francisco for a get out of the vote concert in support
of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential bid.
Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Phil Lesh drew a packed Warfield theater
audience of over two thousand loyal 'Deadhead' fans and Obama
supporters for the concert billed as "Deadheads for Obama."
The group last played together during a reunion tour in 2004
following the death of the band's lead singer Jerry Garcia in
1995.
The reunion concert was arranged one day before the Super Tuesday
primaries after the Obama campaign was contacted by Lesh' 18-year-old
son who is a volunteer for the Obama campaign.
Newsom - pot, kettle, black
On the eve of the Super Tuesday primaries, Mayor
Gavin Newsom harped
about a so called "snub" by Senator Barack Obama four
years go, complaining the Illinois senator did not want to be
photographed with Newsom.
Newsom obviously suffers from selective memory
loss.
At the annual Alice B. Toklas breakfast in
June 2007, Newsom snubbed a photo opportunity with Elizabeth
Edwards, wife to Senator John Edwards.
Elizabeth was guest of honor at the gathering
to echo her support for same-sex-marriage.
Newsom, don't you know, was avoiding the photo
op with Edwards because he had already committed himself to
supporting Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Through the looking glass: Despite refusing to be photographed
with Elizabeth Edwards, Fog City Journal captured this photo
through a windowed door that had been closed off to reporters
following the annual Alice B. Toklas breakfast
in June 2007.
Stevie Wonder robo call
Stevie Wonder just called to say "I love
you" and to urge Americans to go out and vote for his friend
Barack Obama.
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