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A Word From Our Executive Director
Those are my kids. In the picture. It's a few years old but still takes my breath away.
I'm sharing it with you as part of my celebration. I've been Executive Director of Housing Rights, Inc. for 10 years. It's very hard to believe. They are four of the reasons I do what I do and they are four of the reasons I CAN do what I do.
That doesn't mean it's been easy, by no means. I feel like I just learned my job about two years ago. Now that I know how to be an Executive Director, the job has gotten even harder. Competition for funding, competition among agencies, a hostile and intolerant society (hostile and intolerant towards our work and the people we work with), more and more difficult problems brought to us which means of course that life is harder for the people who come with those problems.....all of this adds to the challenge that is mine, and YOURS. (Click on this link for the rest of this article.)
The Silver Dragon Is Going Gold, Save The Date!
The Silver Dragon is going gold, for one night at least. The Board of Directors of Housing Rights, Inc. is proud to announce that this years reception, Going for the Gold - Building On Faith will be held at the Silver Dragon Restaurant at 813 Webster, Chinatown, Oakland. We had previously announced the Rotunda as the setting for this spectacular event so mark your calendars with the change in location, same date, same wonderful honorees......Click on the following link for more information about this event http://housingrights.org/goingforthegold.htm
And, if you would like to become a sponsor of this event and join us in recognizing the wonderful work of our honorees or purchase an advertisement in the event tribute book, download this document! sponsorreplyform.pdf
Just A Few Of Our Activities....
We've had a busy spring and things are not slowing down for the summer! Some of our activities include:
July 18 - Loan DOcument Review Workshop, Richmond Public Library
July 22 - Healthy Eating-Healty Living Fair, Brookside Communty Health Center - Richmond
July 22 - La CLinica's Health Fair, St. Elizabeth High School, Oakland
August 1- Attorney Counseling Evening, Bay Area Legal Aid, Richmond
August 15 - Loan Document Review Workshop, Richmond Public Library
September 10, Solano Stroll, Albany/Berkeley
Call us if you have questions, know about an event we should attend or want to join us!
Stomp Out Discrimination
Join us in “stomping” out discrimination
until difference no longer makes a difference
in a world where every child is smiling….
- Free from hunger
- Free from harm
- Free from homelessness
- Free from hate
Housing Rights, Inc. was founded in 1979 by a law student who could not find housing because she had young children. We are committed to seeing that that does not happened to others. Join us in fighting to uphold the ‘housing rights’ of everyone.
Our Goals with your help, are to eliminate discrimination in housing, prevent evictions/foreclosures and encourage diversity in our communities. We do this by assisting tenants and landlord, homeowners and housing providers to understand their rights and responsibilities and resolve problems, so that EVERYONE will have a real opportunity to live in decent, affordable housing wherever it may be located.
Your support will make it possible to keep our housing rights counseling services free to all who call...renters, homeowners, landlords and others for ANOTHER 25 YEARS!
Donations of time money and goods are welcome. If you want to combine your passion for recycling with supporting Housing Rights, Inc. bring us your used printer cartridges! HRI is recycling cartridges. (We receive a fee for each cartridge!
We are also collecting BART cards. BART will pay is the leftover amount on the cards. Each .05 or .10 adds up!Visit our website to learn more about how to donate to Housing Rights, Inc.: http://housingrights.org/donatemoney.htm
Announcements
Housing Rights, Inc. and the Family of Helen Lima are proud to announce the Helen Lima Standing Tall award. This award will be awarded to the person who most exemplifies the strong, quiet and powerful
Housing Rights, Inc. Board is proud to announce it's newest member Roxanne Romell. Roxanne is an attorney in private practice in Oakland. She was one of our first Lawyer Referral Service supporters. Welcome Roxanne!
Housing Rights, Inc. now provides notary public services at our Berkeley office. Call for an appointment 510-548-8776
Wanda Remmers, our Executive Director was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Fair Housing Alliance. Congratulations Wanda. We look forward to learning more about how the rest of the country fights discrimination!
Fransico Marquez, our long time Tenant/Landlord Counselor recently became a librarian! Francisco now works for the City of Concord Public Library. Good Luck Francisco!
We are very fortunate to have a crew of wonderful interns this summer: Christopher Thomas comes to us from USF Law School, Tam Phan comes to us from UC Davis Law School and Patience Merrit, a student of Oberlin College is with us through a program called the STARC Summer Institute. They will be with us until early August.
| MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is to fight for equal access to housing for everyone
by eliminating barriers to housing choice such as discrimination,
sub-standard housing, ignorance, apathy and malice in order to
eradicate illegal housing discrimination, prevent evictions/foreclosures
and encourage diversity in our neighborhoods. |
