LA Voice Actions This Past Week

October 3, 2008

Our community organizing work around affordable housing in Los Angeles with LA Voice swung into high gear again this past week. On Saturday, several of our members attended a town hall meeting with Mayor Villaraigosa. Mireya Pena chaired that meeting in an extremely successful way. Here’s a quote from our organizer Joe Hari sent by email this week:

Mireya Pena did an excellent job chairing the meeting. A staff member from a coalition organization approached me afterwards and said that “we’re going to win mixed income housing because of her.” Mireya was cool, smooth, intelligent, in control, funny, and full of God’s spirit.

Alburn Binkley also gave a testimony at Saturday’s meeting.

On Monday Pastor Ryan was privileged to attend a press conference where the mayor unveiled his plan to aggressively address the housing crisis in Los Angeles. Kelsy Jarboe (above, with Mayor Villaraigosa looking over her shoulder) was one of only four speakers at this press conference (the other three were the mayor, a Councilmember and a big developer. Pretty good company if you ask us!). We are so proud of the work our members are doing to advance economic justice in our city.

You can read more at the LA Voice – PICO blog. 

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