Saturday, May 2, 2009
Dennis & Tina McMillan Sr., San Jose
You are doing a great job. Keep up the good work. Please continue to give more affordable housing, section 8, and save our housing market. Thank you.
Rhonda Campbell, San Jose
We need help in our community on jobs and more money to help people that are needy. I also need help with some restitution fines I am paying. I have a felony for welfare fraud, so no job wanted to hire me for a long time. So how do I pay the fine if I can't get a job? They are trying to give me jail or prison time. I have a son to take care of. Finally I just got a job at Taco Bell. Can you please help?
Erika Jimenez & Emma, San Jose
Por favor de tomar en cuenta a la gente que necesita un lugar economico donde vivir. Gracias.
Aimee Nichols, Santa Clara, CA
It is a shame when hard-working families cannot afford housing, a situation I am seeing more and more in Silicon Valley. Affordable, respectable housing should be a right, not a privilege. I am shocked by the lack of affordable housing, and I urge our government to take action on this human rights issue.
Patricia R. Foreman, San Jose
YES WE CAN!
Dear Mr. President Obama,
I am so proud to be a witness to the realizing of this wonderful dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I am now a resident of San Jose, California and I am homeless. I am asking that you would do your best to implement more money for section 8 vouchers and low-end-income housing. I am 52 years of age and I am an African-American just needing help to keep a roof over my head. Thanks.
Sally Cooperrider, San Jose
Everyone needs to have a safe place to live as a matter of basic human rights.
Germaine Gorenzh, San Jose
I have been trying to get into section 8 housing for ten years. I am a single mother with two boys. I work 24 to 32 hours a week but I always get denied for housing and would appreciate some help for a single mother. Thank you.
Bruce Halen, San Jose
Even during sound economic times, there is a need for low-income housing. During times of economic downturn, the need is just magnified! I urge your support for legislation and funding supporting existing programs, and for increasing these programs. No more tent cities!
Sabina Turner, San Jose
I need a house. Right now I am not making any money and I cannot pay my rent. I need a section 8 voucher immediately.
Erika Navarro, Santa Clara, CA
People are still losing their jobs and unable to pay their rent or mortgage. More people find themselves having to pick whether to buy food or pay rent. More section 8 vouchers are needed. Thank you.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Babette Campbell, San Jose
I soon will have to move into a lower-cost housing facility and wish to see more available.
Jenny R. Redfern, Morgan Hill, CA
Lift up those who have been hammered by the loan crisis, and give a break to the families with children. Thank you!
Michael H. Hejazi, San Jose
There are 55,000 on the section 8 waiting list in my county. This much need and lack of effectual reponse by your government seems unfortunately remiss and irresponsible. This government is by and for the people. The foreclosure rate and lack of section 8 vouchers planned is a doomed situation! Please act now!
Oliva Soto, Elizabeth, & Josalie, San Jose
Es importante que todos los ninos tengan un hogar donde jugar con libertad, y sin ser discriminados.
Leslie Martinez Colon & Andrew, San Jose
I am not able to pay an apartment rent now because I have no job and the economy is low. It would be nice to have a program that helps low-income people with housing. I am living with a friend and I do not have any privacy at all.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Susana I. Neal, San Jose
There is a lot of need for section 8 housing. As a single mother of two, I have had a very hard time finding affordable, decent living. It took me three months to find an apartment. There are a lot of unscrupulous apartment complexes that take "hold deposits", making people believe under false pretences that they will be getting an apartment. It is ridiculous to have to pay credit check fees at every place where you apply. When you are low-income you can easily spend hundreds of dollars in a few days just looking for an apartment.
Mary Barbee, Destoni, Tahhi, & Maidest Dillon, San Jose
Maidest: Help is much needed, and the process it takes to use these programs should geared toward helping, NOT discouraging, Americans in need. Please help our fellow Americans end homelessness.
Mary: Currently I am homeless and disabled. I have spent the last five months searching the system for help. The foundations that claim to be helping send people like me through a barrage of paperwork only to say there is nothing they can do to help. The agencies that really try to help have limited funds available. This leaves the majority of people in the same situation where they started, or even worse. The family members that want to help and are receiving assistance cannot do so because they are afraid of losing their own assistance. So tell me what I am to do. Please give this issue your prompt attention. We need HELP. What are you going to do about it!!!?
Maria Esperanza Quec, San Jose
Quiero una vivienda para vivir con mi bebe. Estoy buscando apartamente por razon de violencia domestica y no me ha encontrado.
Erik Larson, Milpitas, CA
There are many of our neighbors that are hurting. They are out of work, facing evictions, stressed out, and feeling fearful about the future. Our social safety net has vanished. We need your help.
To-Loan Thi Vo, San Jose
I desperately need a place to live. I currently live with my neighbors. Please help me have a home for my family.
Michael Boling, San Jose
We need more housing for the homeless where they can stay for longer periods of time.
Teresa Velasquez & Xiomara, San Jose
Yes, I have four kids and I would really appreciate more section 8 vouchers immediately. I have been on a waiting list since 2000 and I have not been able to get help. Thanks.
Aejaie Franciscus, Santa Clara, CA
We must increase the numbers of section 8 vouchers. Section 8 is the last stop before homelessness.
Foreclosures are affecting more families than any other issue in the nation today.
Foreclosures are affecting more families than any other issue in the nation today.
Moreno Navarro, San Jose
You are the best. I hope everything is wonderful for you and your family. We love you. You are the angel that this country needs.
Adela Hermosillo, San Jose
There needs to be a lot more help in housing and help in shelters. The shelters need to be supervised with staff. They need real staff members who are not crooked.
Billie Wachter, San Jose
Right now it looks as if my husband and I and our three sons are okay, but five of our six grandchildren are having housing problems.
Claudia & Victor Mayagoitia, San Jose
Por favor ya no mas aumentos de la renta, y necesitamos mas oportunidades de trabajo.
George Rosales, Fremont, CA
Housing is not affordable here in the East Bay. Both buying or renting are just about out of reach compared to wages and employment. It has always been like this, at least for the past ten years or more.
What to do? Train us for jobs where we can make a living that is enough to afford the high cost of living in this, the most expensive area in the nation.
Anu Mandavilli, Cupertino, CA
Dear President Obama,
How many homeless people can be housed for the cost of one missile? Why are we not cutting our military spending and taking care of people's basic needs? Give them housing, give them food, give them education. That is what will make this country better, not more drones, more destroyers, more bombers, or more rockets.
How many homeless people can be housed for the cost of one missile? Why are we not cutting our military spending and taking care of people's basic needs? Give them housing, give them food, give them education. That is what will make this country better, not more drones, more destroyers, more bombers, or more rockets.
Anne E. Pflager, Cupertino, CA
These needs will be even more critical in the near future. Our citizens deserve better. We have turned over billions of our tax dollars to the bankers who got rich off their pyramid schemes. Now they are using these very dollars to lobby Congress. When did we become a Third World country?
Our government needs to gain control over the situation by regaining control over corporations and lobbyists. Democracy can only work if the people have a say. Capitalism can only work with regulation. Please help us save our democracy.
Yezina Getahun, San Jose
I don't have enough money to pay the rent. I have to look for a roommate. The rent is too high.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Irene Aires & Angel, Adrianna, & Arianna, San Jose
We need more in the housing fund and more public housing. My family and I voted for you. We have six kids. You are doing a great job as our new President. Keep up the good work. I know you will meet our needs. We need more jobs, please
Patricia Taylor, San Jose
We need housing for people 60 and over. Please help a homeless person that is not a drug addict, alcoholic, or with mental health issues. I am a true, innocent Christian woman.
Zamantha Gutierrez, Roman, & Francisco, San Jose
Try to help the people that need it more. Thank you.
Jennie J. Chalden, San Jose
Please follow through with the things you said you will do. God bless you.
Lorrie McGuy, San Jose
Dear President Obama,
I am currently homeless and in need of housing and health care. I am hoping you can help with housing and not cut any programs.
I am currently homeless and in need of housing and health care. I am hoping you can help with housing and not cut any programs.
Emma Harris, San Jose
Dear President Obama,
Now that you are in office, what are you going to do about the homeless and really poor families?
If you take care of the poor and the widows, then God will take care of your needs as well.
Leticia Guerrero, San Jose
La situacion ahora es critica sobre las viviendas y el trabajo.
Yo tengo siete hijos y vivimos en una casa pequena. Por favor ayudenos con mas programas.
Yo tengo siete hijos y vivimos en una casa pequena. Por favor ayudenos con mas programas.
Adrienne Butler, Milpitas, CA
I am a single mother of five. First I say thank you for becoming our president, and for working on certain projects to provide for our well-being. However, we the people have an emergency need of housing vouchers. I have been in need of one for quite some time, as well as of other needed resources. Please take our concerns and needs into consideration. We the people believe that you will make the right decisions. Thank you for your patience and time.
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