Public Housing

As a candidate for District 5 I am posting on this blog my position on Public Housing

I want to make this crystal clear; I do not support public housing in any form. Why?  The Galveston Housing Authority and the Conciliation agreements are in violation. (Fair Housing Act)

Any candidates that support any form of subsidize federal funding on the foot prints being proposed will be violating the “Fair Housing Act.”

As the newly elected District 5 representative I will seek all legal avenues needed to release the federal funding allocated to repair our city.  It’s been long coming. Why should we be held hostage by the Conciliation agreement that violates the “Fair Housing Act?”   

Jaworski state in the Galveston Daily News article written Dec 24, 2011, “To get through this together, we need to be crystal clear about what are Galveston’s best interests.”

Does he really have a clue?

In articles written in the Daily News it was revealed that not only will there be 500 rental units that’s planned for the Marina Landing but also how many are now being rent out by the  Back Bay Apartment complex, add to this the additional scatter Public Housing scheduled for District 5.

Let’s see how West Galveston Island Property Owner Association is keeping public housing out.

From the Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Housing Authority of the City of Galveston, Texas

Island Community Center – Community Room 4700 Broadway, Galveston, TX 77551 December 20, 2010 at 5:00 P.M.

Mayor Jaworski “Betty Massey did a great job addressing their concerns, speaking on behalf of GHA. She did an awesome job setting forth the basic three big things that are currently happening: Purpose-Built Communities; the Move to Work application; and the preferences. She addressed the public housing on the far west end issue and stated that even if the census tract data came back indicating that this was the ideal location for public housing, other reasons would disqualify the area. Reasons such as it is not behind the seawall, there is no school in the area, no grocery store, no public transportation and no urban grid. These are all disqualifying factors.”

The question is “How much power does the WGIPOA have with city council.

We need to stop Mayor Jaworski, Shrub Kemper, Barbara Crews, Betty Massey, GHA, and the big interest groups. Stop this madness.

  

We all need to come together and contact our representatives to support this resolution. As you’re newly elected Councilmen district 5 I will continue to fight for the people in my district.