More Low-income Housing Coming
To Arden-Guthrie and Date Street.

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Some city officials believe that crime will increase in your neighborhood if the San Bernardino City Council approves a taxpayer-funded Arden/Guthrie rehabilitation plan for 100 four-plex units. Many are now empty and could be demolished at the property owner's expense.  These units, once rehabilitated, must then be occupied by people earning less than $19,000 annually (gang members and parolees usually meet this earning limitation.)

Other city officials think that if the City doesn't but them, land speculators will.  The debate will involve how to spend 8.4 million dollars.

• Can it be used to help Senior Citizens fix up their homes all over town?
• Can it be used to buy/rehabilitate foreclosed single family homes and out them back on the tax trolls?
• Can owner-occupied duplexes be built?  Or will this taxpayer money be used to allow a property management company to buy them, taking them off the tax tolls by placing them under a non-profit company that must rent  only to very low income tenants? 
• What else can be done with this money to stabilize other at-risk neighborhoods?

This project will be debated and/or voted upon at the the City meeting on Monday, July 20, at 3:45 or later that afternoon at City Hall, 300 N. D St.
Your may voice your opinion and/or concerns by speaking at the meeting, emailing City Hall, calling or writing a letter to city officials, requesting that if you cannot be there to speak, they read your comments into the public record before the vote is taken.

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City Council: 909-384-5188
Mayor: 909-384-5133
Write: All Council Members, 300 N. D St., San Bernardino, CA 92418