Years of displacement, public housing teardowns, bad policy favoring property owners, gentrification and structural racism has decimated our African American population in San Francisco.  This has resulted in tangibly disastrous impacts on families, and has dimmed San Francisco’s shine.  There are many things we can do collectively to turn this around.  One way is to restore housing for one family - one beautiful San Francisco mother and three gorgeous children with deep roots in San Francisco. 

LaKetha Pierce loves San Francisco and has spent her adult life giving to this city, as a caregiver in health care, as a service provider to unhoused people and today as a leader fighting for housing and human rights for impoverished San Franciscans.  In 2010, during a time of personal struggle with postpartum depression, she was illegally evicted from public housing.  Eviction proceedings were filed against her for owing $250, and she and her family members attempted to pay several times before the Sheriff got there and were refused by property management.  

Since then her family has suffered homelessness, living in cars, in shelters, in hotels, moved out of the city on a temporary housing subsidy twice and became homeless again each time when the subsidy ended.  The whole time she continued working in San Francisco, bringing her children to school in San Francisco while suffering trauma and instability of homelessness.  As Laketha said in a letter to the Housing Authority “Having a home for us again is the foundation we need to be able to focus on bettering ourselves and so I can continue to help others who experience the trauma of homelessness”

The coldest part: Laketha’s old home at 1015 Oakdale is sitting vacant.

Please sign this petition calling for the Housing Authority to rescind the eviction and move Laketha and her sons back home in public housing!