Membership Meetings: 2nd Thursdays ~ 7-9pm
Park Branch Library, 1833 Page St, SF, CA 94117 (except August)

HANC Membership Meeting - April 2023

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HANC’s February general meeting included presentations on the Homeless Bill of Rights and a discussion of how homelessness affects our neighborhood. We also received two emails expressing both support for homeless rights, but frustration with conditions the senders believe to be related to the homeless population.  We have posted these emails and our response to them in the article below.

At the meeting, Paul Boden from the Western Regional Advocacy Project explained how discrimination against the homeless stemmed from a long history of mean-spirited laws to keep “certain people” out of public spaces. These included Jim Crow laws, Anti-Okie laws, Sundown towns, and Ugly Laws. Descriptions of each of these can be found at www.wraphome.org/images/stories/ab5documents/HistoricalCriminalizationFactSheet.pdf. Each of these laws was eventually found to be discriminatory and unconstitutional. When the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development was established in 1965 its mission was to ensure that decent and sanitary housing would be made available to all. By the 1980’s, this was no longer HUD’s policy.

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HANC meetings are open to the public and take place on the second Thursday of each month (except August), at 7:00 p.m. downstairs at the Park Branch Library, 1833 Page Street between Cole and Shrader Streets in San Francisco.

Non-members are welcome to attend and participate without voting, and new members may vote or run for office after one month's membership standing. Reminders of these meetings -- and their agenda -- come in the form of the monthly HANC newsletter which also provides information of issues of importance to the neighborhood.  Copies of the newsletter are also available on this website (click on "The Voice & docs").

The coordinating Board of Directors, elected every November by the general membership, also meets monthly about twenty days before the membership meetings.

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