"I'm seeing in a matter of months 30 years of work go down the drain," said Donald Bruland, the director of senior and disability services for the Rogue Valley Council of Governments.
She works at Senior and Disability Action, volunteers with neighbourhood group and is an active member of the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco.
Jessica Lehman, executive director of not-for-profit organization Senior and Disability Action, has used a wheelchair all her life and started hiring home attendants when she was 18 years old.
"I'm really concerned with all these high-tech companies moving in and creating incredible increases in our rent," said Betty Traynor, 68, who stood with a sign held over her head that read, "We are the Public, What Are You Offering?" Ms. Traynor volunteers with an advocacy group called Senior and Disability Action.
Tony Robles, who came from San Francisco's Senior & Disability Action and whose family has lived in the city for five generations, wanted help from the tech community to overturn the Ellis Act at the state level.
Those groups, which include Senior and Disability Action, the Grey Panthers, Eviction Free San Francisco, and the San Francisco Tenants Union, staged a protest at 24th and Mission to get that point across this morning.
Suspended state services included driving tests, childcare assistance, senior and disability linkage lines, criminal background checks, and road construction.
Of the roughly 500 SROs still standing containing some 19,000 units peppered throughout Chinatown, the Mission, SoMa, and the Tenderloin over 8,000 residents are adults and seniors with disabilities; short on income, housing alternatives, work opportunities, and adequate ADA accessibility as required by law.
People outside the workforce (e.g. senior citizens and disability pensioners).
As access has increased nearly 80% of the general public uses the Internet regularly KADO has focused on helping people with disabilities, senior citizens, rural dwellers and low-income families get online.
Despite the lack of a COLA in 2010, seniors, people with disabilities and disabled veterans benefits did receive a one-time $250 check in May 2009 as part of Obama's stimulus plan.
