Janice Saavalia, San Jose

I feel there should be more housing and food for those in need. Let's make this happen.

Gregg Sanchez, San Jose

To the President of the United States:

We the people need your support and help. I am a Californian. Thank you, and God bless America.

Irene Pedroza, San Jose

To Obama,

We need more housing for the homeless. My son is 19 and needs housing. He is not on my housing list and cannot live with me. I try to put him on my list and they harrass me. Thank you.

Ernesto Estrada, San Jose

I need my stimulus check.

Dwayne Penns, San Jose

I feel housing should provide more affordable housing for everyone. It's very hard right now paying rent, water, garbage, and PG&E when you are on a fixed income like SSI. I'm on SSI and it's hard. I don't even eat half the time because of the cost of everything these days.

Anthony Ribeiro, San Jose

Please help as much as you can. There are too many homeless and people out of work. Thank you.

Ramon Serpa, San Jose

Faisa Akhtar, San Jose

Emilia Osuna, Milpitas, CA

Tengo 36 anos viviendo aqui en la area de San Jose. Ahoy vivo con una hija y no puedo rentar aparte porque no alcanzo para la renta, menos comprar una casa. Ayudame bajando las rentas.

Arely Cruz, San Jose

Queremos mas viviendas de bajos ingresos para toda la gente que necesita y que no tiene donde vivir. Por favor ayudenos a todos los necesitados. Gracias.

Linda Andrade, San Jose

I would like you to help my Mom to get housing for herself. She is 83 years old and needs help. Also my son Frank Andrade and his wife and kids need housing help. God bless you.

Cresensia Hernandez, San Jose

Necesitamos ayuda.

Maria Viera, San Jose

Nosotros necesitamos mas fondos para mas viviendas para personas necesitadas y mas trabajos. Y menos ejecuciones hipotecarias.

Saleem Akhtar, San Jose

Dear President,

It is extremely important to bring to your attention the poverty and homeless population in California. We are in extreme need of housing and jobs in this state. The Governor has messed up this state badly.

Filiberto Zamora, San Jose

Blanca Berney, San Jose

Mr Obama, I am a divorced mom of four kids, and because of illness and the divorce, I had to stop working. I am with no money or health benefits or a place to live, so I am pleading with you to look into helping people like myself to get money, to improve housing, and to help organizations like Sacred Heart that have been there for us helping with food and clothing. They need more funding to help with rent and PG&E bills. And I hope our governor will do more to make the fathers pay who are not paying chilcare support.

Eve Wood, San Jose

First of all, I would like to say I have a lot of respect for you and I voted for you, because I believe you will bring great change to our nation. However, our country's people are suffering and we need your help! 7000 people go homeless every night in Santa Clara County and this is terrible.

Debbie and Gary Sanchez, Newcastle, CA

We are blessed to have housing that we can afford but, in the past two years we have moved out of an apartment and into a small motor home and later lived with my wife’s mother because we could no longer afford housing. We were blessed to be able to find an older mobile home at a very low price. We can afford to live here only because we had access to private financing from within our family and our total monthly expense for housing is about half of the normal rental rates in our area. We thank the Lord for our good fortune but we know that many others are not so fortunate.

Isabel Serna and Jesse, San Jose, CA

If it wasn't for housing through Section 8, I would be on the streets with my child. I am an educated person trying to make something of myself and my community. I was and am fortunate. But there are too many individuals without the options I have, through no fault of their own. Please help them. In the richest nation in the world, we cannot afford to let the poorest of our people be homeless, and subsequently hopeless.

Sister Adrienne Lawton, San Jose

I received a twenty day notice that my rental unit is to be sold on the auction block and that I should contact whatever legal aid, or assistance that I can. The new owners may or may not wish to keep me; therefore, I should be ready with some legal alternatives.

I am a fifty-five year old African American woman who has fought cancer for the last three years, which due to medical neglect, went to stage two before I was helped, and has morphed into fibromyalgia with accompanying migraine headaches.

I have half of the physical capacity of life I had one year ago, and nothing of the life I had before the cancer treatments began. The need is greater than ever for me to serve the community as a Justice Minister/Advocate/Court Community Liaison/Counselor/Mother/Grandmother/ Student/Friend.

I have served the homeless and marginalized in our community for over eleven years, and been a peacemaker and freedom fighter, as my mother and grandmother before me.

I have fallen through dangerous cracks in the medical system, and now the housing crisis is collapsing on my life, but not my faith.

I have a sustaining faith that has moved mountains in my life, and I would like to continue as an example for others who may need to see my faith in action.

In the mean time, my landlords, and other property owners who extend themselves to the Section 8, Housing market, need immediate care; there demise affects the least of God’s people in a dramatic fashion.

Thank you for ending this economic emergency, lives are in your hands,

Sister Adrienne Lawton
Associate Pastor/Board President
CHAM Deliverance Ministry
80 S 5th ST,
San Jose, CA 95112
408-294-4112

Lourdes Salas Nunez, San Jose

Hi Obama,

Please can you help me with my housing. I'm living in a van with my two boys age 4 and 5, Edward Mondragon and Arturo Mondragon. I need help to get the housing. I get no money, I only get food stamps. Yes I am looking for work, but I need you. Please help, I am in need and in an emergency. I think you will help me get my house soon. Thank you.