HomeMy WebLinkAbout7/5/2017 Item 12, Ramirez
Christian, Kevin
From:Ramirez <eramirez111677@yahoo.com>
Sent:Friday,
To:E-mail Council Website
Cc:audrey@pcslo.com
Subject:I support work force housing
Dear City Council,
A quote from Dr. Seuss " So, open your voice lad! for every voice counts"
My name is Silvia Ramirez, I am a mother of two teenagers( 17 years and 14 years) and a wife to a UPS Driver (19 years
at job). I work for rental property management company in SLO and my husband works from the SLO UPS center and my
two daughters go to SLO High. I have been employed for over 8 + years for the SLUSD school and volunteered for 10
years at a elementary school in SLO. My husband and I volunteer as Youth Leaders at a local Spanish speaking
community Church here in SLO which has been helping and serving locals for the past 20 years, we work with kids ages
12 years and older for the past 11 years.
For 6 years we were forced to move to Atascadero due to the very high rental market prices and very steep home
buying prices. We had to commute for those six years to our daily jobs and kept our daughters in SLO School district
because we have always called SLO home. Due to my husbands income we cannot qualify for low income, but we
cannot afford the current housing market prices as our income is not of an upperclass nor can we get low income
assistance. We would have loved to have been able to afford a home to see our girls grow up and be able to have a
puppy and see them be able to play in their very own back yard. Sadly this is and was not our case. We have had to rent
high rental prices and apartment size places where our girls have been very limited to what they can decorate there room
and not able to have a pet as a companion. This Projects that are being well planned out would give us the opportunity to
be first time homeowners at the age of 34 years for me and 39 years at my husbands age.
I ask that you pass the San Luis project that are being presented before you and take the voices of those who have
quietly been waiting for this type of opportunities and are very grateful for the people who decided to speak up on our
behalf to be able to afford our first time home as WE are SLO Locals and will continue to be. I was until now one of the
quiet voices who hoped for some one to step up and speak up in order to build homes for people in our income bracket.
I realized that we are the voices, we are the ones that need to speak up, staying quiet is of no help. We must try and
ask for affordable housing for the workforce people like ourselves.
I urge you in making this Project Plans a reality and making this dream a reality to families
like mine. Dr Seuss quote "Unless someone like you cares a whole aweful lot, nothing is going
to get better. It's not." and "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers a
simple"
Sincerely and patiently waiting,
Silvia Ramirez
Contact information Email: eramirez111677@yahoo.com
Phone number 805-234-1930
Mail address: POBOX 621 San Luis Obispo, Ca. 93401
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