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\nPhoto courtesy Eric Quezada campaign.<\/p>\n
\nPhoto courtesy Eric Quezada campaign.<\/p>\n
From the campaign to elect Eric Quezada to District 9 Supervisor <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n October 3, 2008<\/p>\n At a rally in front of City Hall Wednesday, District 9 Supervisor candidate Eric Quezada demanded that the current Supervisors pass an innovative People’s Plan for affordable housing and new economic opportunities in the city’s eastern neighborhoods.<\/p>\n The Plan is the product of years of organizing and leadership by Quezada and others to ensure that city planning incorporate housing affordability, lasting employment, and public safety programs that protect youth and families.<\/p>\n “We need to pass a plan that’s from the community,” Quezada told a crowd on the steps of City Hall, before testifying at Supervisors hearings on the issue. “We need a plan that’s going to meet the community’s affordable housing needs, that’s going to meet the needs of our youth.”<\/p>\n Quezada has been a leader on District 9 housing and public safety issues over the past 20 years, and currently works as executive director of Dolores Street Community Services.<\/p>\n “We need a plan that is going to make us safer,” Quezada said, linking the district’s ongoing crime problems to the issues of planning and housing. “There’s so much violence in our community, and we need to address it by passing the People’s Plan. We can get an additional 2,500 affordable housing units if there’s the political will, if Supervisors listen to the community needs and not just developers’ needs.”<\/p>\n If the current Board doesn’t adopt the Plan, Quezada said, “The next Supervisors will have to pass and implement this plan. I want to bring those years of organizing work and movement work to City Hall.”<\/p>\n The rally also featured community leaders from the Mission Anti-displacement Coalition, voicing support for both the Quezada campaign and the People’s Plan. The crowd then marched to the Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee hearings to call for adoption of their plan, which would create thousands of additional affordable housing units in the area while protecting families and creating youth opportunities.<\/p>\n Earlier in the day the Quezada campaign released its new position piece linking housing, planning and public safety. For more information, visit www.ericquezada.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photo courtesy Eric Quezada campaign. From the campaign to elect Eric Quezada to District 9 Supervisor October 3, 2008 At a rally in front of City Hall Wednesday, District 9 Supervisor candidate Eric Quezada demanded…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6413,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n