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Good morning, it means some things Miss Jackson. The first
ever Joint Committee
I will need you all to be quiet or will be asking uh the
sergeant-at-arms to get you out of here.
I know y'all by name. Let's go, you ready?
I am ready. Are y'all ready? Okay.
The first ever joint committee on immigrant and Refugee
Rights and housing, and real estate, will now come to
order. Uh, today we all have 1 item for discussion on the
agenda with votes to be taken. The item introduced uh was
introduced by myself r 202400008385, a call for hearing to
explore barriers to housing for immigrant and Refugee
communities in the city of Chicago. Uh we will begin with
public comment.
Our first Speaker Mr. George Blake Moore.
We do roll call. Oh, you that old? That had me a a drug out
of here. Can we get the mic? Our first Speaker? We're going
to public comment first and and and all right. Get it back.
Clean. All right.
Seemed like the need your, your face is for me. I came in
here and it was packed with illegal immigrants and you. And
the rules says, uh,
10, people could speak for 3 minutes, you changed those
rooms because you say, I'm going to change those rules for
these illegal immigrants, but they can speak. I'mma take
your minutes away from you, Mr. Blakemore, and give it to
them. I say, no, you're not.
He's not gonna do that then call or talk Mr. Starts over to
drag me out. I'll holler help. Help help illegal immigrant
these Mexicans and these, they help their people. They help
their people to get this 100 billion dollars.
What did the black man? Get nothing and some old black faces
Like Walter bet.
Right here.
That that, that blonde.
Uhuh have more fun voting for Sanctuary. I like voting
voting for sanctuary.
They do I can't understand what happened to the black man
on the plantation. You know what the white man made a end
and you know that. So this new generation have parents
ourselves of in is a n**** ISM and we become a bone black
men and women that was a crime against humanity, enslaving
a free people, bringing them over here on these slave ship
and working them for nothing, raping and killing them. And
to see another
The hell no hell no. These are low like to a black people
that will go against their own interests. And this man
right here, is married to a Jew and he's a mixture of or
whatever. That's his business. He don't advocate for black
people, he advocates for his own, and they all came over
here. Breaking the, the immigration law. They did not wait
across the Rio Grande to have black people. Stay in power
black people. They came to some people, black people for
good.
Job. I hate all of y'all. Democrats. Glory Glory, Glory.
but all of them. Now, all of them, the backwards, a piece
of the white 1, the Hispanic, they all of them. Let's teach
teach them how to treat us. Let's go read. Let's go red, go
red. We gonna teach these Tella.
Thank you very much, Mr. Blake Moore nice outfit. Uh, next,
uh, up Miss, uh, just uh, Jessica Jackson.
So, y'all hit a bag for some more money?
And some more rights.
You had a 16.4 billion dollar budget.
And then, on top of that.
Now, you're a million dollar, a billion dollars in debt.
When the city first showed.
That it was 538.
Deficit. Y'all didn't stop. You kept going.
Then they said that it was 300 million that Brandon Johnson
couldn't find y'all kept going.
Now, it's all the way.
To over a billion dollars.
Now.
Of that big old budget, y'all had a measly 500,000.
Line item for a focus study of reparations.
And y'all hear the B to beg some more.
That's why it needs to be a audit to see if the people are
serving if they are actually.
Citizens if they're actually legal because what we got
going on right now is a bunch of people that can came over
here for opportunity.
They coming over here, taking these seats in here and they
looking out for their country, they trying to bring their
people over here, they getting them jobs or whatever here
so they could send money back to their country.
Why they drain in our pockets dry?
I'm up here for over a year, talking about my mother's
property and how you all set up here and stealing black
people's property and I get the good pleasure of every
morning when I come down here at the train, stop of the
Metro on Stony Island, where it's a apartment complex that
used to be black.
They shut it down, it's rebuilt and now it's a bunch of
immigrants in their illegal immigrants in there and I got
to stand on that bus. Stop on that Metro to come down here
and look at them. Be up there Parliament, Parliament, they
got little pools out there. They got that little pets out
there. They ain't worried about the thing. But I'm coming
here. Gotta fight for my family's property. I'mma tell
y'all 1 Thing. Y'all ain't gonna pass nothing until y'all
get this budget straight. Y'all bet not pass. Nothing. This
is what we think about this. That's it. Y'all better not
pass nothing. Nothing. I'm telling you, you better stay
where it is. It's like they say, nobody move. Nobody get
hurt.
Y'all bet not. Put no hands up for nothing. Y'all better
pass nothing because we coming for them seats. If you do
think we playing, think we playing think we playing y'all
better adjourn. This meeting until y'all find out. How
y'all going to get that money, right? Y'all better get that
money, right? I'm telling you, that's a Kanye. I'm telling
you that. Wait don't you talk to while I'm talking and
going to sit up here and mess with my minutes?
You hold that mouth. We already got to look at these
immigrants all over the city. All over begging all.
Gave you the seconds back. Thank you, Miss Jackson.
Uh, no 1 move please. So you don't get hurt. Uh next up,
Zoe Lee.
no, I think it's a Kanye son so I I forget
No, actually it is a hook.
So reading this resolution, it highlights, the significant
barriers of housing, the immigrants and refugees facing
Chicago, such as this discrimination language obstacles,
limited, documentation, and lack.
Of competent. Housing assistance. These barriers contribute
to housing insecurity substandard, living conditions,
homelessness, and displacements, with negatively affect
their health well-being and stability of these populations.
I see over 20 to 30 black, American citizens that are
homeless out here with no shoes. Anything begging outside.
I'm seeing black seniors with cups because they can't get
jobs because if they get jobs, they're going to take their
little Social Security away that they're getting the bare
minimum Democratic party, right? Because that's that's what
it is.
Has given black Americans, the bare minimum for over for
forever, but for the last 60 years and now the bare minimum
resources, you're now giving to the undocumented
immigrants.
Is a like a. You're you're insane as a black American to
keep voting blue. You're a moron, you're an idiot, you're
dumb. If you are black and American and you keep voting for
the Democratic party, it's either Republican. And when
finally, black people realize our privilege that we have
that we can get up and go to the end. Do this by ourself
because y'all need us, we don't need y'all.
We are the Bank of America. We run this country, we build
this country. So when black people can get up because we
need we don't need neither 1 of the political parties but
the Republicans are are the Trump is coming. Trump is
different from the rest of them because I because I really
can't stand the Republican party too, because it's really
just full of white trash. They eat cooked grass. So at the
end of the day if they both are trash, but I'm what I'm not
not going to deal with is that you guys are going to come
in here and take votes. When it comes to how you can make
sure they're fine. These undocumented who haven't played a
dime in this when there are people who can't even feed
their children, can't even get to schools. Taking school
buses away. Y'all are in a million dollar deficit.
At the end of the day, y'all are about to take jobs away.
It's about to be a job, freeze. The lowest the lowest
population. Since 1920 in Chicago property, taxes are going
to have to go out. People are moving, and not moving
because of the violence, they're moving. Because property
taxes are insane 11,000 in Maywood for Maywood. Are you
insane? That's the problem. So, it needs to be an audit and
people going to jail like Walter brunette. He's going to be
1 of the main people that's going to jail, and that's just
what it is. This is a, this is messed up. Y'all are messing
up Chicago, and y'all going to continue to mess up Chicago
and Brian Central Lopez? You should not be on those zoning.
You shouldn't be in a house.
Thank you very much. Uh, Zoe our next speaker is Mrs.
Lawrence
Let's get started with Fuentes. Yeah, quit smiling, because
you're the 1 who decided you're going to kick out the, uh,
homeless people that walked over 90 miles over here in
Humble Park, gave them Bleak, I'm not gonna curse, but, you
know, fill in the blanks. So, how foul is that for American
citizens, that they came to Humble Park? And you remember
the day, the day before the DNC? How foul is that? Let's
put you on blast next. Let's talk about a DUI driver over
in my God. Dang neighborhood, that came through illegal.
Driving, no insurance, hit several cars. And then tried to
speed off. Yeah, I captured that bleed.
And I reported it too. Because see we not having that. But
y'all want to come in here and stand up for illegals. How
about that? Let's go to the next 1. Free homes. Are y'all
are freaking piece of crap of a
don't who the hell pay for my house?
None of you.
Who the hell went to my job and worked my butt off my
husband butt off. None of you.
But you want to give free home.
Yeah, you're gonna hear me real clear because I want to
make sure that my voice travels, this whole darn thing cuz
I'm that pissed.
That you all think that. It's okay to do what you're doing.
You're 5 and you will all have to answer to God for it.
Oh, it's going to be answered trust and believe that.
Next 1 that I have on my list uh property taxes. Let's play
the game.
I already busted the assessor's office. Okay? About raising
my property taxes falsely.
but when y'all giving these free homes,
You have falsely. I got facts. FAA CTS
but when you're giving these free homes out the people,
Are they paying property taxes? Hell no. You know why?
Because I checked it.
They property taxes have been reduced.
Further than American citizens.
Y'all some cheeping swine. That's what y'all are. Y'all
have failed?
And guess what we coming for those seats? Trump, we're
voting Trump. We're voting red. And we out here on the, we
got Foods on the ground, making sure that many people will
not be voting. This cracked up blue crack.
And that's the best I can get with my words right now
because I got some real true words before I have to repeat.
Over all of y'all. Doing this file mess that y'all pulling.
This is ridiculous. This is foul and y'all need to clean it
up.
From the mayor to the president on down to fake uh
chameleon and everyone else over there, okay. Yeah. Y'all
know who comedian is, don't play like, you don't.
Thank you, Mrs. Lawrence it's a new 1. Um,
I don't know if I could ask that on the record, uh,
Next up, uh, Michael Young bae.
I'm not gonna cuss today.
though, I'll be wanting to cuss cuz
sometimes that's just the way a release is some anger.
Best with all this ignorance stuff.
You know, and I'm actually going through what most people
not going through.
And on top of that, being hit with the hatred people trying
to undermine me. People trying to
Discredit me or slander, my name, Etc.
And I I'm talking about the shelters talking about some of
these politicians, you need to ask her for who said that I
need the name. If you can come and call on the phone and we
record it if you can call on the phone and say, hey they
said you put a gun out on your wife. Then you need to say
who it is because we finding that untrue.
dang, tell the police that
You see what I'm saying? But that, that, that that's
that's, that's, that's a bad look on my name and I don't
play like that. So that's why. I said, last time I was down
here, don't play with me and I mean that because I'm going
through a lot.
I'm going through a lot. I don't want to say certain things
because I don't even want to perceive as a threat.
Well, I can throw 1 blow and you won't live no more.
So a person need to stop coming at me. How they coming at
me?
Unless you really that brave.
And back to these immigrants things.
You know, we tired of this stuff.
You got you got it brothers and he'll climbing. Y'all went
to these colleges and y'all so uppity or y'all. So got so
much education and you seem like the biggest fools on Earth
to stand and vote for Sanctuary City. Vote for This
millions of dollars that millions of dollars. And your
community ain't saying nothing from what the streets from
which you come from.
Walter Bernett, you come from the project. You come from
Cabrini Green.
and all you trying to do is figure out a way for y'all to
battle up them layers of Rogers, and put these European
developers up over there and just drain everything out of
our communities.
Drain everything from our people.
And giving these people fill them up with all the gas. They
can have all the finance. They can have all the candy. They
can have how they get keeping all this damn candy. Damn,
not a cuss word. So, uh,
Yeah, that's crazy. Every corner you got, you know, Mars
making a lot of money and we can't even invest in it
because they privatized. So they just they just raking in
the doors. The same thing with these hotels, just breaking
in the door, make this hotel um a a homeless shelter for
migrants make that hotel.
homeless shelter for money um, migrants
And the shelter.
Thank you Mr. Yung bae.
Appreciate it.
Next speaker is Mr. Taiwan Sims.
We can say this song in the fair fashion. It's uh, when
you, um, can truly
Uh, how do you say? Um,
Associate yourself to an issue, that's happened.
like, when you can first hand say that I'm discriminated
against
When you can first hand say that, I'm undermined it. When
you can first hand say that I've been downtrodden kick
basically in my nuts over and over again.
However, when
I grew up here. I'm 44 years old.
In the next coming years, I'll be what 2 quarters of a
century.
I'll be in afforded somebody years and yet I'm disregarded.
Still in my country, no in my city right now. There's 47,
what 47,200, and something Venezuelans here.
but the, this most disheartening thing, this morning was
reading an editorial that said that now, this family, this
Venezuelan family that has only been here, 2 years is going
to own the home
But then on the contrast to that you read about the
Southside families, that's talking about how they being
pushed out of their home.
And you think wow, I've been homeless. My HMI s. Number is
355061, I memorized it.
Because I've been homeless now since on record. July 21st,
2021 and these people just been here.
On a home.
And I'm wondering why but we immigrants.
From our Representatives, not, we should Chicagoans Mr. Cro
Byron, Cedro Lopez, but we immigrants
This is where my heart resonates.
Not for the residents in the city, especially the back of
America wants. Because how can this be that somebody just
just got in this country, not 600. Some days ago, has
ownership. And I don't even, and I couldn't even get in a
decent shelter. I can't even get housing.
Who is accountable for that?
Who do I blame for that? Who can I sue? Who can I charge?
Because y'all like to switch switch the blame. Oh, they're
responsible for that.
Well, let's find out who responsible for disregarding a
whole nation of people a whole city.
And then let's charge them adequately.
The way y'all disregard us.
Y'all talk about immigrants, we civilians Americans, black
Americans. We've been here.
Forged this whole country off our blood.
What is it?
And tell me I'm lying. If anybody can hear me under this?
Say, I'm lying.
Say we just oh, so entitled.
Cause y'all in Thailand us to nothing and we'll be gone in
the next 4 years. Under this Administration under this
Democratic regard.
Thank you, Mr. Sims
Next speaker uh is p r easily or fazi.
The good morning. Uh, I'm P. Today I have on an Austin
hoodie because I am a third generation.
Resident of the Austin Community. We've owned our buildings
maternally for 52 years. We've owned our building
paternally for 52 years. So, I have 104 years of ownership
in the city paying property taxes on time. And I am here to
ask
Are y'all lying to us? Because see, we know that the budget
stated that you guys spent $400 million, on the migrants,
migrants, who are illegal immigrants last year, the city is
currently in a 235 million deficit, which means that you
guys over spent the budget to pay for people who have not
Paid any taxes who have not stood on the corners to take the
buses to the Chicago Public Schools who have not done
anything and it is very disrespectful. It is extremely
disrespectful. That parents like myself. Have to go out and
drive 3 expressways every morning to take our children to
school because you guys can't get the busing situation
together, but you have all the time, all the energy, all
the solutions to do things for immigrants. My friends not
only is that negro phobic but it is xenophobic against the
American people. We are not being treated, fairly in our
city, and you guys are using our property taxes to affect
us negatively. We are asking right now to put a moratorium
on the sanctuary city ordinance. It is drowning the
taxpayer. It is forcing everybody's rent to go up. It's
forcing everybody's mortgages to go up because the property
taxes are going up. There is no stoppage for the illegals
who are coming up here because you
Guys have already magnetized our city for illegal
immigration by showing the world, how we treat people, who
enter our country illegally, and we don't have any more
money for that. You all. We don't have any money. What I
want you guys to do is figure out how to balance the budget
before you talk about. Anybody that does not have a Social
Security number before you talk about anybody who has not
done the work of Americans, they don't deserve anything, we
owe them. Nothing. And every time you guys have
conversations about immigrants, what you guys are saying,
not you American Negro because the American Negro is not an
immigrant. So every time you talk about them, every time
you spend time talking about them, our taxpayer funded
time. You guys are pushing us to the back and that's negro
phobic and that is disrespectful. The same way you all can
get together and have a meeting for the immigrants. Figure
out how you can have a meeting to figure out how to balance
and reduce the
The budget, we do not have the money stopped, giving them
our money when our people need it. Not just, I'm not saying
black people, the American people, the Chicago taxpayers,
we need the money, don't give them anymore.
Thank you.
Our next speaker is Robert Guzman.
Mr. Guzman, good morning. Uh, I want to start off by just
thanking the committee and immigrant and Refugee Rights for
allowing me to uh submit my public comment. Um,
My name. My name is Robert Guzman. I'm the external Affairs
director at, uh, scale. It, it's a non-for-profit
organization that, uh, over 10 years we've been assisting,
uh, Chicago residents, um, with obtaining, their GED job
Readiness training, uh, digital literacy. Um,
Improving their math and reading and helping those um, uh
returning um from incarceration. Good jobs.
um, and in October of 2023, um,
I was assigned by the Department of Commerce, uh, uh, to be
part of a, a Workforce working group that will assist, um,
all new arrivals, uh, that have obtained work permits and,
um, getting jobs and, um,
Since, uh, October of 2023. We've engaged with over 3,400,
new arrivals with their work permits about 90%. 90% of them
have gone from Level 1. English to level 4, English,
um, allowing us, um,
to make a more marketable, more employers.
Our biggest barrier has been the relocation from shelters
to Rapid rehousing to now not knowing where they're going
to live.
but but we will continue, we will continue to provide them
with the same resources and a a equity that we have done.
for over 10 years with all Chicago residents, um, not just
asking today to the committee, uh, to understand the
important factor, the housing place and work force
development
For every for every 1 in Chicago.
Uh, I will, kindly ask anyone the same way you all. Got the
respect, and people were interrupting to do the same or I
will ask you to leave. I will have sergeant-at-arms take
you out.
All I'm asking is for people to give everyone the same
amount of time and respect that you all got. Thank you. So
I'm just saying as a son of a name Grant that arrived at
Little Village in 1977. I wish that the same resources that
were offering
the new Rivals would have been there because it would
Advance my mom in English and her career.
And I would have not had to spend 3 years in Mexico because
of the violence in Chicago and because of our housing, um,
barrier at the time,
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
I'm having that kind of day, I'm asking you to for real,
I'm asking you to
Next speaker.
Uh, Esther Martinez.
Hello, good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here.
Speaking for every resident in Chicago, I am a, um, St
Martinez. I am an immigration and housing organizer. Uh, we
always center today, I'm here to talk about the barriers
that tenants face here in Chicago. Everyone most of 50% of
the population in Chicago are renters and this is something
we have in common. We are being evicted. We are you guys
sometimes?
And today landlord corporations. They are the ones that are
making profit for all of the Working Families in Chicago.
Um, we need
a home to live. We need a space to reach our childrens to
have a family to have a life. Everyone has the right to
have a house to have housing. We need legislation that
protect or or tenants to be a victim for a reason that are
not their foul. We need protection for all the families
that are enriched to be homeless.
Where the tenants where the landlords ask for the to leave
the unit for sometimes for reason like I am going to bring
a family member, that is right. They are the landlords
right, they are the owners but that is not the follow the
follow, the tenant, other reason they need sometimes to
remove the, to remove the, um, the construction, you know,
in the building or something like that. But families,
having lived for their for 1050, 20 years. And right now,
it's really hard to find.
a apartment a house that is, you know, affordable and that
is um,
In good shape. Also, you know, in good, um,
Okay, um so we need um protections to help our families.
All other families in the city, everyone to have a house
A safe and healthy place to live.
In our communities. I think everyone can agree in this
corporates.
And companies are bullying or houses, um, buildings. And
they don't care about the maintenance, they don't care
about the property, they use collect the money, every
month, corporate landlords are not afraid to ignore. The
tenant requirements for maintenance, or also raise a
retaliate, tenants to a victim.
when tenants call the city for inspection on the they keep
asking for, you know, things that are the right for pay the
rent
we need protection for all the, all the tenants and all the
families that
want to stay here that want to live here alive.
That is something. I think that most of us here have in
common that we are residents here in Chicago. And we need
protection like, tenants and homeowners. Also in small,
landlords are in the same game, right? They need help with
all these, um, taxes and all these expenses that are making
hard for them to keep the property when corporate
landlords. Are, you know, having an old money to buy blogs,
hundreds of units, used to make profit for all the families
that are working and struggle to have a house. No, we don't
support. Thank you so much. Thank you everyone. Thank you.
Uh, next speaker is Alicia Campbell.
Okay, I'm here today because I'm I'm tired, I am tired of
being quiet. I'm tired of seeing my people come down here
day after day talking about their grievances for them to be
be dismissed. I'm sick of the arrogance, the entitlements,
the hypocrisy, and the incompetence of this Administration.
I'm going to begin with my, I'm going to begin reading. A
testimony that was prepared by the director of research for
the center for immigration studies. And this is directly
for you by and see Joe Lopez since you love to push this
narrative about the miraculous things that immigration does
for our country. This is the immigration Integrity security
and enforcement subcommittee of the house Judiciary
Committee. The hearing is entitled the impact of illegal
immigration on Social Services. Illegal immigrants are a
net, fiscal drain. Meaning, they receive more in government
services than they pay in taxes.
the fundamental reason that illegal immigrants are a net
drain is that they have a low average education level,
which results in low, average earnings, and tax payments.
It also means that a at a large share qualify for welfare
programs often receiving benefits on behalf of their
us-born children.
Like their less educated and low-income you us-born
counterparts. The tax payments of illegal immigrants. Do
not come close to covering the cost that they create.
Secondly.
You guys sit here, particularly Vasquez, seats or Lopez
Carlos Rama Raza. Jesse Fuentes you all advocate for these
people for resources, but you put majority of them in black
zip codes. You accept a few, you accept the few, but the
majority you put in our community. So let's talk about the
behaviors that they're bringing to our community.
Fighting in the street like animals with bottles and knives
with their women and children right on the side of them.
looking like you confused I guess you see each other
because it's not put on the news but we're telling you
what's going on on the streets. Okay. They standing off
with the police. All right, they beating up CCA employees,
they jumping on people on the CTA.
Right? They out here prostituting. Selling drugs, toting,
guns. And you want us to embrace that in our community.
How is that fair? And this lady sitting here like, oh, this
isn't true, we're making stuff up. You don't live in our
communities. Just like y'all don't understand the
frustration we deal with with the police, cuz they act
different in our communities than they do in any other
community in this city.
Thank you. Thank you very much for your comments.
uh,
y'all got to wear uniforms man, y'all's extra. Uh, okay.
Uh, public comment is not over for record and for clarity,
he's Byron 6, Joe Lopez. I'm Andre Vasquez. I know,
sometimes it gets mixed up. Uh, so,
Uh, Byron. Uh, if you've got able to speak.
Go Blue.
Sergeant of arms, please.
Sergeant of arms. I will be talking. I will be asking
children to get Folks up. Please restart the order
immediately.
I think that we have heard, please anybody who continues to
shout please. We move to the chambers.
Anybody, who disturbs?
Everybody who continues to talk. Removing from the chamber
Miss Jackson. Blakemore, who else?
No, we want you all removed, you too. Thank you.
Sergeant arms, please remove them. Remove anybody who
continues to shout.
Yep. Thank you. And we'll, we'll continue to those who
those constituents and residents who have come here to find
Solutions, anybody who came here to pitch people against
each other and Shout will be removed.
Good morning buenos. It is uh it is great to be here. I
want to acknowledge today, we have some special guests, but
I wanted to specially recognize the president, the presence
of the council general of Colombia about to be uh afro
Colombian. So I want to recognize Council Diego and gulo
for being here with us. Thank you.
And we want to recognize the work that has been done, uh, in
a humanitarian difficult challenge in the city of Chicago.
What the city is responding to political attacks when
people put people, inhumanely in buses and have even
allowed the inhumanity of children minors to die in
transit. So, we also recognize the tragedies of what we've
seen recently in Forest Park, which is 4 people shot in the
CTA train. We care about every single chicagoan victim of
inhumanity
And today.
Again we want to recognize the panelists, we want to
recognize the people who do in our work. And I just want to
announce because of the work. The work that has been done
to respond to a humanitarian crisis. That other states are
not responding. We also will receive on september 21st. I
want to make sure it's public to the press the the visit of
the president of Colombia in Chicago on septembar, 21st to
to recognize the work that Chicago has done receiving and
welcoming people in a very challenging situation. While we
had a convention, I commend all Chicagoans that are working
for Solutions as a chair of the housing committee. We also
don't think that Chicagoans or people here. Working people
are to blame, but we are finding Solutions. And I want to
announce also, there is a referendum as well in November,
when people can express their voices. So that people who
make in 1 more, more than 1 million dollars will be
considered.
To tax at a pro, a percentage rates of 3% income tax. So
that we have enough funding, we have 120,000 millionaires
who live in the city of Chicago, who can pay the first
share and there are solutions so that we can do both care
for new neighbors, as well as the current neighbors. So,
thank you again for those who are here to find Solutions
and appreciate the chair of the incubation committee for
calling this meeting.
Thank you very much. I also want to shout out. Want to make
sure to thank uh the folks who are testifying. We have
Lydia Stan, for the executive director of the rough
Institute of global homelessness at the Paul University.
Uh, Michelle Gilbert, uh, legal and policy director with
the Law Center for better housing as well as Charlotte long
housing specialist for Sanctuary working group, uh, want to
thank you all for being here. We will now, uh, go to the
roll, call to establish a quorum.
Uh, alderwoman Dow.
Uh, alderwoman Gutierrez.
Alderman, kson.
Alderman Rodriguez.
Alder-person Fuentes.
Ottoman. Talia Farrell.
Alderwoman Cruise.
Alderman, Cardona.
Alderwoman Rodriguez, Sanchez.
Alderman Ramirez. Rosa.
alderwoman monah, hoppenworth
Alderwoman Haden.
Vice chair, Taylor.
Chair Vasquez present, ottoman laspada.
Ottoman Robinson.
Alderwoman Harris.
Alderman Quinn.
Alderman Moore.
Alderwoman to bars.
Alderwoman Scott.
Vice Alderman. Brunette. Sorry. For purposes of the
meeting.
Uh, alderman. Viegas
Alderwoman mitts.
Alderwoman clay.
Uh, Vice chair Mitchell.
Chair Lopez.
The chair 6 show Lopez, I apologize.
Uh, that being uh, 11 members, we do not have quorum.
There is no further business before the committee may I
have a motion to adjourn.
Chair 6 Lopez so moves.
We're a journey. We have to reschedule.
Hearing no objection so ordered.
The Joint meeting of the committee on immigrant and Refugee
Rights and housing and real estate is now adjourned.