"The word mortgage comes from a French word meaning Death Contract" the powerful words of Archbishop King from St John Coltraine Church rolled off the podium, and rumbled down the steps of San Francisco City Hall. The same blood-stained steps where home after home is sold every Wednesday by real estate snakkkes, devil-opers and bank-gangsters. Archbishop King continued, "these banksters remind me of Satan, making a promise they have no intention of keeping.
This landless, indigenous daughter of displaced, evicted and gentrifUKed Afrikan, Roma, Taino peoples heard the screams from the years of land theft that emanated off those steps, my feet trembled and my muscles tensed to hold the tremors of loss and fear and death.
"With this proposal we are urging the Mayor to protect all homeowners from the predatory lenders and their practices," Supervisor John Avalos, who launched this crucial proposed legislation on the same blood-stained steps on Tuesday, March 21, along with the support of five San Francisco Board Supervisors including David Campos, Eric Mar, Christina Olague, Jane Kim and David Chiu, which expresses support for the California Homeowner Bill of Rights which are 5 legislative measures introduced at the California State Legislature and designed to provide basic standards of fairness and transparency in mortgage processing, community tools to prevent blight, tenant protections, enhanced law enforcement to defend homeowner rights, and a special grand jury to investigate foreclosure crime.
" We talk alot about the out-migration of African-descendent people from San Francisco, this legislation actively tries to impact that situation," said Supervisor Christina Olague, a new and important addition on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors standing with renters and community members to stop the bleeding of our communities by predatory lenders and real estate snakkkes.
"I have been living in my home for 40 years, I have nowhere else to go and i have many physical illnesses," Cathy Galvez, spoke humbly into the microphone about her current situation facing eviction at the hands of predatory lenders.
As the people spoke, their voices rose up, joining the millions of people in resistance to these high paid, legally sanctioned gangsters stealing homes and lives and hope with each theft, sale and paper. On this day, we, the people, were heard.
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