{"id":1797,"date":"2014-12-04T03:03:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T03:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2014-12-04T03:03:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T03:03:21","slug":"san-jose-activists-call-for-encampment-support-630-am-12-5-inbox-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/san-jose-activists-call-for-encampment-support-630-am-12-5-inbox-x\/","title":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE ACTIVISTS CALL FOR ENCAMPMENT SUPPORT 6:30 am 12-5 Inbox \tx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOMELESS LIVES MATTER &#8211; EVICTION IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO HOMELESSNESS<\/strong><br \/>\nWe call on all allies and people of conscience to come to the so-called \u201cJungle\u201d encampment at <span data-term=\"goog_420227000\">6:30 am on this Thursday<\/span> morning, December 4, to stand in solidarity with the homeless who are threatened with arrest for the \u201ccrime\u201d of having nowhere to go. The City\u2019s planned eviction of homeless residents is not the answer to San Jose\u2019s homelessness problem. Simply arresting or dispersing people will not make them go away.<br \/>\nWe applaud the City\u2019s efforts that have so far housed some 144 encampment residents in the past 18 months. However,<br \/>\nmany more than that number BECAME homeless during the same time period, due to the City\u2019s misguided jobs-housing imbalance and its lax rent control laws. Residents who have moved out of the \u201cJungle\u201d into housing have been replaced by new homeless people moving in.<br \/>\nThe City should concentrate on housing the homeless, not moving them around from place to place. Moving them from one creek to another does not protect the environment. According to its own survey, 96% of encampment residents would move into affordable housing immediately if it became available.<br \/>\nTo say that one of the richest cities in America does not have the resources to house its people is immoral and deceitful. The City Council has the opportunity to show the courage and vision to claim the resources that are there. Silicon Valley corporations have over $500 billion in cash reserves. To continue saying there is nothing we can do while our people are dying is a disservice to the fine and compassionate people of San Jose.<br \/>\nRobert Aguirre, H.O.M.E.L.E.S.S.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"tel:915-471-8674\">915-471-8674<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pastor Scott Wagers, CHAM Deliverance Ministry<\/p>\n<p>Sandy Perry, Affordable Housing Network<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOMELESS LIVES MATTER &#8211; EVICTION IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO HOMELESSNESS We call on all allies and people of conscience to come to the so-called \u201cJungle\u201d encampment at 6:30 am on this Thursday morning, December 4, to stand in solidarity &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/san-jose-activists-call-for-encampment-support-630-am-12-5-inbox-x\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[4],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}