A professor of history at the university of illinois at chicago. She studies race and agenda in the u. S. Wes bridges a member of. She was awarded the of one historians. 119 she was a fellow of the huntington library. Her new book is west of jim crow the fight against californias color line. Thank you for being with us and im going to hand it over to yu and i will see you again for q a thank you so much. Im just so happy to be here. Let me just get this going. First of all i have big thank you to give to the California Historical society. I frankly would not have had a career without them. They have been helping me every single step along my career. I have visited them for my first book where did much of my research and the old library and the library into the curators, i cant say enough. I could spend all my time thinking how the library into the special shout out to karen jacob for helping me in setting this program up but i also want to give a shoutout to Deborah Hoffman the archivi
As they should be. We have a accomplished this year documenting actually some of the beleaguered preferences ocii properties have. Weve published a Housing Preference guideline that shows how the different Housing Preferences that we monitor and that we facilitate through the lottery system interacts with each other. I have copies of the preference manual if you like to see it. It lets people know prior to putting us putting it in this book, there were no written instructions for kind of documentation you need to have to get the correct rent burden preference, let sit. Or even elaborating on what the rent burden preference is world what the assisted Housing Preference is. Like theits not a section of voucher program. If youre in public assisted housing. That little nuance is kind of difficult for people they think are good at section 8 dr. I should get this preference but so we were able to write it out and help people understand what those preferences are and how the interplay, how th
This is the second time. I have another application here, these are housing, this is the second list and there is five sheets. This is the second sheet and i have been in all of these places looking for housing. As i said again, my name is victor boston, and if you can give me insight, my number is 4105756, and i am in desperate need of housing. I am a veteran, vietnam veteran at that. Okay, i served my country. Unfortunately i cant walk. But i am looking for some housing. Please, thank you, mayor, thank you housing authority. Thank you. Mary harris. Cathy davis. Mary harris, president of my neighbors in action. On february 2 we had a Lunar New Year celebration at the rec center. When we got up there, my husband and i noticed there was just this very tense vibration and we found out that Lawrence Collins was shot and killed at the rec center. So we lost another youth in the omi. We have had youth shot in front of inner city youth, we have had them shot in front of the omi Family Resour
I want us to be mindful, of course if we had the opportunity we would let everyone to speak. We know that everyone has important things to say. I have more to say than most coming up here speaking. But we want to be mindful to allow everyone an opportunity and orderly. Everyone in here will not get a chance to speak. Mabel sato. Mary davis. Cathy davis. Karen tateum. Bradley whitmire. Excuse me. Honorary mayor, and supervisor, my name is victor boston. And really i need someone with a paper and pen. I have been looking for housing over i say nine months now. And i am about ready to lose my section 8. Okay. I have letters here saying congratulations. We have placed on our waiting list. But we check our waiting list once a year. This is the second time. I have another application here, these are housing, this is the second list and there is five sheets. This is the second sheet and i have been in all of these places looking for housing. As i said again, my name is victor boston, and if y
To speak, please. I have something to speak, but i dont know why you dont call my name. I dont want to inaudible group that can say, they can do everything. Why if we are quiet i need to speak too. Please. Okay. [speaking foreign language] translator the Chinese Community has so many problems but have no way to express it because of the language barrier. We only stay in our home and with our family and cant find a solution. Only because our language, our english is not very well, we cannot read. We cannot speak. [speaking foreign language] translator i know, language barrier is not our fault. Or the society fault. But i just want to get the chance to speak. I dont know why i always say at the end of line and never can get a chance to speak. [speaking foreign language] translator i not feel comfortable to speak in front of the public. I hope i can schedule a meeting with the mayor and supervisor to talk about our issue. Sorry about it. And thank you. Again, before we get to the next set