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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone else listen to the meeting last night? I was in tears listening to Amy tell her story of how she was forced out of Connecticut House after living there for 32 years because she feared for her safety after a voucher tenant in her building threatened her life. And that same tenant threatened a security guard with a hammer and NOTHING WAS DONE ABOUT IT. How is that OK??[/quote]

It was crazy, I don’t know how anyone could listen to that meeting without being outraged. People are being run out of their homes by violent criminals, and the city is backing up the criminals. I suggest everyone listen to it. And Frumin was just sitting there saying nothing, just he really is working hard on finding solutions and maybe we can get more nonprofits involved.

The meeting was called because there were two separate instances where children were murdered in these Van Ness buildings over the past few weeks. During the meeting, one resident said he heard there was a stabbing in his building the night before, and wanted to know why the police didn’t tell anyone. The police Lt. said the public didn’t need to be told because it was a domestic situation. The residents said if there is someone in their building who violently stabs people they want to be informed (the police Lt. disagreed).

You got the same issue in the other discussion where people were worried about the city’s policies that were bringing child murderers into their buildings, and they kept being told to shut up (by someone cynically using the kids dead bodies to try to shut them up, just shameful).

Residents talked about how they had been talking with the mayor and council for years about these issues, and just kept getting ignored. Many have been forced out of the homes they’ve live in for decades because of the violence. Silence from their elected officials, and disturbingly many people who want to silence them.[/quote]

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