{"id":600,"date":"2009-05-06T18:11:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2009-05-06T18:11:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T18:11:50","slug":"Mothers-Day-Protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/06\/Mothers-Day-Protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Day Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

coming up on Friday, related to the previous post<\/a><\/p>\n

For Immediate Release Press Contact:<\/p>\n

May 5, 2009 Miguel Carrera, 415-346-3740 x 319<\/p>\n

Jennifer Friedenbach, 415-346-3740 x306<\/p>\n

MEDIA ADVISORY<\/p>\n

MOTHER\u2019S HOLD MOTHER\u2019S DAY PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE ECONOMICAL DOWN TURN<\/p>\n

When: Friday, May 8, 2009, 11:00<\/p>\n

Where: Steps of City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton Goodlett Place, San Francisco<\/p>\n

What: Homeless Mother\u2019s are holding a press conference to decry the lack of response from the Mayor\u2019s office on the doubling of homeless families in San Francisco ince the recession.<\/p>\n

San Francisco\u2014San Francisco, like cities across the nation, is seeing a dramatic spike in the number of families requesting emergency shelter. The city of San Francisco has enough homeless families to fill a small, rapidly growing town. Yet, this issue has received very loud silence coming out of the Mayor\u2019s office<\/p>\n

According to Connecting Point, in the summer of 2007, the average numbet of homeless families waiting to be placed into shelters was 75. In the summer of 2008, that average doubled to 150 families. Since then, there have been anywhere from 150 to 190 families waiting to be placed into shelters. The recession has taken a tremendous toll on our low-income families, and homeless families are calling on the Mayor\u2019s office to respond.<\/p>\n

Studies have show that homelessness has negative impacts on our youth\u2019s health, development and education. Mother\u2019s are becoming more and more concerned for their children\u2019s well being.. They are in awe at the fact that the city has not responded to the tragic outcome of our recession. Homeless parents will be presenting their solutions and will be asking for a meeting with the Mayor. Homeless parents active with the Coalition on Homelessness have been calling for a meeting with the Mayor for the past two years, and have not been granted one.<\/p>\n

For Mother\u2019s Day, the mother\u2019s of the homeless community would like to spend their day securing their children\u2019s future. Homeless parents will be calling for additional affordable housing units, a lifting of the time limit on a locally funded housing subsidy, and increased homeless prevention funding. San Francisco has adopted the \u201cHousing First\u201d policy which was created to swiftly house homeless single adults. The mother\u2019s are fed up with the lack of action from City Hall, and are demanding that the \u201cHousing First\u201d policy that was adopted by San Francisco be implemented for families in their time of need.<\/p>\n

According to Jenise Standfield of SRO Families United, \u201cOur families need real \u201crapid housing\u201d not \u201crapid homelessness!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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