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James Tracy San Francisco Housing Rights Activism Collection, 1996-2006.
SFH 91
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Title:
James Tracy San Francisco Housing Rights Activism Collection, 1996-2006Creator/Contributor:
Tracy, James, creator, creator.Abstract:
Video, clippings, fliers, legislation, meeting notes, and other materials on local housing rights activism collected by James
Tracy of Coalition on Homelessness, Right-to-a-Roof, and Eviction Defense Network. Issues include: Federal Hope VI redevelopment
in North Beach and Valencia Gardens public housing projects; ballot measures Proposition N (aka "Care Not Cash") and SFOP
Housing Bond (Prop B); tenant organizing in residential hotels, also known as Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels; and immigrants
in public housing. Also includes copies of The Civil Disobedience Handbook, edited by Tracy; and The End of Speculation and
the Strengthening of Community: Mutual Housing as One Solution in San Francisco's Homelessness and Housing Crisis by the Coalition
on Homelessness Housing Work Group. Of note is a 1996 videorecording labeled "North Beach Tenants Speak," which is raw footage
shot by Sasha McGee and Chris Daly as part of a larger project to make a documentary about Hope VI. Speakers include Juan
Prada; James Tracy; Esther Chavez of Coalition for Low-Income Housing and Immigration Housing Working Group; Richard Marquez
of Housing Not Borders; Louise Vaughn, President of Geneva Towers Tenants Association, and Malik Rahim, formerly of the Black
Panthers.
Date:
1996 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caTracy, James -- Archives
Community organization -- California -- San Francisco
Homeless persons -- Housing -- California -- San Francisco
Public housing -- California -- San Francisco -- Citizen participation
Public housing -- California -- San Francisco
Urban renewal -- California -- San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social conditions
Note:
Running time of videorecording is 134 minutes.
The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours, with photographs available during Photo Desk
hours. Collections that are stored offsite should be requested 48 hours in advance.
James Tracy is a San Francisco Bay Area author, poet, and activist. He co-founded Eviction Defense Network (EDN), a direct
action organization against tenant evictions, in 1992. He also coordinated Right2aRoof, a program of the Coalition on Homelessness
and a precursor to the San Francisco Community Land Trust.
[Identification of item], San Francisco Housing Rights Activism Collection (SFH 91), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco
Public Library.
Collection materials are in English.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
A DVD viewing copy of the VHS original videorecording of "North Beach Tenants Speak" is available for use in the San Francisco
History Center reading room.
James Tracy, donor. Gift, 2003.
Materials Separated from the Resource: Sixty-four issues of Street Sheet (June 2003-Feb. 2006) have been transferred to the
San Francisco History Center Stacks and may be accessed via the Library's online catalog.
Physical Description:
1 manuscripts box
Language:
English
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No place, unknown, or undeterminedCopyright Note:
The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours, with photographs available during Photo Desk
hours. Collections that are stored offsite should be requested 48 hours in advance.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.