Expanded Analysis: SDHC, Nonprofits, and Corporate Capture of the Justice System1. SDHC and Partner Nonprofits as Corporate Landlords Over the last decade, the San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) and a web of affiliated nonprofits have pivoted from traditional affordable‐housing advocates into large‐scale property owners. By securing Housing Authority and HUD grants, they’ve assumed full control over development, leasing, and resident services—often presenting themselves as turnkey experts in property management and case coordination. 2. The Service Delivery Gap Yet beneath the polished branding lies a stark reality: • Waiting lists stretch for months or years, leaving families in unstable or overcrowded conditions. • Promised wraparound services—job training, mental‐health counseling, legal aid—are sporadic or nonexistent. • Staffing models favor grant writers and compliance officers over licensed property managers and credentialed social workers. This mismatch between marketing and action undermines the very goals of affordable‐housing funding. 3. Root Causes of Organizational Misalignment 1. Funding‐First Mindset • Incentive structures reward billions in secured grants rather than tangible resident outcomes. 2. Underqualified Staffing • Case managers without licensure attempt to navigate landlord‐tenant law, generating legal missteps and eviction pitfalls. 3. Weak Accountability • Audits focus on financials, not resident well‐being metrics like housing stability, income growth, or school attendance. 4. Corporate Influence Over the Justice System Beyond service failures, a more insidious trend has emerged: corporate landlords leveraging financial ties to shape eviction outcomes. 4.1 Campaign Contributions & Judicial Foundations • Major developers and nonprofit boards funnel political donations through PACs to judicial candidates. • Charitable gifts to court‐affiliated foundations create goodwill that can sway discretionary decisions. 4.2 Lobbying & the Revolving Door • Law firms representing SDHC and partner nonprofits recruit former judges as “of counsel,” reinforcing cozy relationships. • Judges eyeing post‐bench careers may hesitate to rule against these well‐connected entities. 4.3 Fast‐Tracked Eviction Dockets • Specialized “eviction calendars” push cases through without thorough hearings. • Reliance on affidavit evidence—filed by corporate property managers—limits tenant defenses and discourages legal representation. 5. Impact on Vulnerable Families When housing agencies morph into profit-driven landlords and courts bend under corporate pressure, the fallout is severe: • Forced Displacement: Families uprooted from schools, medical care, and support networks. • Psychological Trauma: Children and adults experience anxiety, depression, and a sense of injustice. • Erosion of Trust: Communities lose faith in both housing authorities and the judicial system meant to protect them. 6. Toward Genuine Accountability and Care To reverse these trends, SDHC, partner nonprofits, and the courts must realign with their public missions: • Recruit and empower licensed property managers, social workers, and tenant‐rights attorneys. • Institute transparent metrics tied to resident stability, not just unit occupancy. • Ban campaign contributions and foundation gifts from housing developers to judicial candidates. • Mandate comprehensive hearings—rather than affidavit‐driven dockets—for all eviction cases. • Form independent oversight panels with tenant, community, and legal advocates to audit both service delivery and court practices. By refusing to trade human well-being for funding optics and corporate profits—and by restoring judicial impartiality—San Diego’s housing programs can finally fulfill their promise: transforming empty houses into nurturing homes and ensuring every family the stability and dignity they deserve.

Mental health for Black people can't continue to be policed, criminalized and/or incarcerated. Especially not when they are allowing white men to freely surrender from spaces after they have knowingly just murdered citizens who happened to be Black and are taken on a joy ride to get food just to add insult to injury or able to freely walk across state lines with assault weapons and murder citizens who happen to be Black and we can go on. So what about people like Reginald Johnson who didn't commit the crime at all? Who didn't take a plea because he wasn't guilty? Where is his reprieve? Today he is still on parole. He is on his 3rd marriage. Stability is a thing he fights for every single day because at any given moment he believes that it can be taken away from him because all of his life it has. Doesn't he deserve his FREEDOM? Let's help him secure that. Reginald can't get 27 years and 8 months of his life back. He can't get Kenya back. He can't get back the time he had to watch his mama be raped or tie his aunt's arm to aid in her getting high, but we can help him get his name back, his freedom back and move forward with a clean slate with his daughter, stepchildren, wife, grandchildren, his positive mental health and wealth and the work he continues to do serving youth through his organization YORRA--Youth Offenders to Reformed and Responsible Adults. Who Better...

This issue is important because it highlights disparities in how historical injustices are addressed based on racial backgrounds. The contrasting treatment of cases involving New York Life Insurance Company underscores a need for fairness and justice in acknowledging and rectifying historical wrongs. Here's why people should join me in addressing this: 1. **Equality and Fairness:** It's essential to advocate for equality and fairness in addressing historical injustices. When cases involving different communities are treated disparately, it raises concerns about systemic biases and unequal access to justice. 2. **Reparations and Restitution:** Many believe that descendants of enslaved people deserve reparations for the enduring impacts of slavery. By raising awareness and advocating for fairness in how such cases are handled, you contribute to the ongoing dialogue about reparations and restitution. 3. **Learning from History:** History provides valuable lessons for society. By addressing historical wrongs comprehensively and fairly, we can learn from the past to build a more just and equitable future. 4. **Solidarity:** Building a coalition of people from various backgrounds who support equitable treatment in addressing historical injustices can create a powerful force for change. Solidarity is a key factor in advocating for justice. 5. **Promoting Accountability:** Holding institutions accountable for their historical actions sends a message that no one is above the principles of justice and accountability, regardless of their size or influence. 6. **Raising Awareness:** By joining this cause, you help raise awareness about historical injustices and the need for acknowledgment and reparations. Increased awareness can lead to greater public support for equitable resolutions. 7. **Advancing Racial Justice:** Addressing disparities in how different communities are treated in cases involving historical injustices is a step toward advancing racial justice and equality in society. In summary, advocating for fairness and justice in addressing historical injustices, such as the cases involving New York Life, is essential for achieving a more equitable and just society. It's an opportunity to stand up for principles of equality, accountability, and learning from the past to shape a better future for all.

African American/Black women and girls have historically endured all manner of physical and psychological violence. The emotional, mental, psychological violence as well as physical violence aimed at African American/Black women and girls is traumatic and denies African American/Black women and girls their humanity. Discrimination in education, discrimination in the workplace, healthcare, and beyond has essentially created an American society that is hostile for African American/Black women and girls. The right to live free of harm and the failure of a systemic approach to create equitable policies with equitable outcomes for African American/Black women and girls is unacceptable. Systemic harm of any woman and girl compromises the safety of all women and girls. Stand for the freedom, liberation, and protection of African American/Black women and girls. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-americans-are-getting-support-for-reparations-from-other-multiracial-groups/ar-AA1cHmnm?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=223ff2abf7f9433ca3c9718dd2d57cfd&ei=13.

People should join in this effort across the nation because state sanctioned kidnapping in NOT exclusive to Tennessee! It's happening across the nation and families are being destroyed because of it not to mention how costly it is to fight back when you are faced with a false charge.of abuse and or neglect. It is also important because families aren't afforded the same protections that are guaranteed to those accused of criminal violations. This means it is easier and you are more likely to loose your child tha to go to jail for stealing a .35 cent pack of gum!!! Another gross compent of this cash for kids scheme is the money that is attached to removing children from their homes. There is a 15 month clock given to parents to get their children back before termination of parental rights proceeding begin to adopt a families child out. The cumbersome things asked of DCS and the many continuance they create can and do easily exhaust this time and you can be in jeopardy of loosing your child just because DCS hasn't prepared themselves and keeps stalling parents out on unnecessary programs and other requirements that they provide ZERO support for. The states bill over $2.8 million dollars a year in fist care cost, none of that goes to support families! If we are to continue to pay these cost we should have a say in how that money is spent and based on the data the money should be spent on providing support of families to reunify other than tear apart family bonds. https://www.npr.org/2021/12/27/1049811327/states-send-kids-to-foster-care-and-their-parents-the-bill-often-one-too-big-to-

Our youth are up next. There is no if, ands, or buts about it. And if they are to be the future, we have to ensure their present which means society's views of them have to change and the only way that happens is if we 1) traumatizing them, 2) stop automatically criminalizing them, 3) traumatizing them, again 4) getting them so call help for the trauma that we've caused 5) getting them so-called help from people who don't look like them and have no sense of their culture at all  They need to know that they are not seen as criminals or someone that we deem will do wrong. We all have bad days, but law enforcement shouldn't be the ones stepping in with weapons when we have teachers who can step in with love. As of now, 99% of the children incarcerated at the Youth Study Center are Black, and historically, since 2022, it has been 100%.  Police in our schools started during the Civil Rights era as a disguise to protect black children as a guise really to instill fear in them. Making schools, property safe is not the priority, or it shouldn't be. Making children feel safe should be. Schools have always been a place of refuge for young people. Teaching them how to keep each other safe and why is how community is maintained, not protecting the building and vilifying children. Especially Black children and making their consequences be as severe as prison.  Terminology like "informed trauma" is used often and very loosely to describe "urban" or Black children/students by so-called professionals surveying and/or observing them in order to claim the "understand" what they are experiencing and are prepared to "fix" them. Them being US. Us being WE. We being ME.  I am a Black mama proudly born in the 7th ward and raised in the upper 9th ward of New Orleans to a 2-parent household on most days. Educated at the historic William Frantz Elementary School, St. Mary of the Angels, McDonogh #35, Francis T. Nicholls, Dillard University, and Southern University At New Orleans. I AM NEW ORLEANS! NOT NOLA!  I have had to physically fight the police on my front lawn at the age of 15 for coming to my home which was a traumatizing experience while having police in my family. I have spoken out in protest against the police for years and celebrated and honored good police--those who did go against the grain and call out bad police. I lived in the city during a time when we had 2 police unions-- a Black one and a white one. What does that tell you??? REFORM DOES NOT WORK! You are killing us and you are using us to do it. Law enforcement in the schools has never been placed for our protection. The impact of criminalization on black youth causes a psychological effect. It causes higher rates of stress, depression, substance abuse, becoming hyper-vigilant, distrust of police, hyper-arousal, and even numbness. Children who live in heavy police areas, start to affect how much sleep they receive causing sleep deprivation and low sleep quality, this may cause them to come to school, not at their highest potential. We have to treat our children like children. Creating relationships to rebuild their sense of self. Why not give love a try? Why not allow them to know who they are and whose they are first? What's the harm in that? Why are white people so threatened by Black people knowing who they are? Why is it that they feel a need to be prepared to always contain a beast but not to open their arms to show love first?

As a minority so called blacks deal with injustice everyday. Being that so called blacks are in poverty leads to them not being financially able to afford an attorney. Therefore, several so called black men are thrown away in the prison system while being innocent. There's power in numbers and if we stand up and fight through the injustice done to the minority groups change will be made. Mr Brown has children and if he isn't exonerated his children will grow up without a father. Please help bring Mr Brown home to his children.

1. Diversity of thought leadership is needed for the progress of our communities. 2. Commissioner Wale has been very resourceful to the community and his contribution towards the growth in DE & beyond is needed. 3. This violates the vision and mission of DACAC and is against the culture that the African Diaspora is trying to promote in a united front. 4. Bullying tactics will not be tolerated in the State of Delaware. 5. The community was not aware and was not notified about the attempts of his removal. 6. Commissioner Wale was one of the original founders in the attempt to unite and build the people.

Educational, green spaces like The Strawberry Mansion-Blaine Elementary Environmental Center provide food, gathering, education, and social advocacy support community healing and encourage youth engagement. The environmental provides vital science, math, technology, art, and engineering education through an agricultural lens. Blaine students deserve access to environmental spaces that enhance their everyday learning and provide new avenues for study.

Segregation is happening all over again in schools across America. Segregation perpetuates the School -to-Prison-Pipeline and we must stop it in its tracks! The New Orleans Four, at 6-years old served their little black girl magic and showed the world that children can lead the way. These little emissaries were the epitome of what it means to have the audacity of hope. They broke barriers and opened hearts in 1960 and with this nationally recognized holiday they can continue to remind America and the World that we can ALL live, learn and work TOGETHER. In her speech during the New Orleans Four Day 60th Anniversary ceremony in New Orleans, Alana Odoms (Executive Director ACLU-Louisiana) stated "Since its inception, black girls and black women have shouldered the immense responsibility of perfecting our Democracy. The New Orleans Four were emissaries of justice and freedom, turning the tide of hate in this nation and calling us towards the liberties enshrined in the United States Constitution." Like Dr. Opal Lee, I believe that this national holiday can be a unifier and an inspiration to children and adults around the world. I believe it can be the bridge that brings people together to talk about the hard issues facing our country. The New Orleans Four were the light during a dark time in our country's history and their brave acts will always be a beacon of hope to show young people that they have a voice, they have a say and the wherewithal to create the CHANGE they want to see. Let them be the everlasting reminder of Freedom, Equality & Justice. Learn More: To watch the docuseries teaser and learn more about the project go to www.NewOrleansFourLegacy.com

As pastor of Bethel AME Church of Pittsburgh and representing the congregation, we implore the Pittsburgh City Council and the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority to address and restore the land stolen from Bethel AME in 1957. Known as Big Bethel to its more senior members, the church once seated 1,900 Pittsburgh residents in what was then a thriving neighborhood in the Lower Hill District. The oldest Black church and the first elementary school for Black students, it was a haven for residents and the center for organizing in the 1950s during the civil rights movement. Bethel held programs before and after school while launching the Black Nurses Association to improve the health and welfare of its congregation. That all came to a screeching halt in 1955 when the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority announced plans for the Lower Hill Project redevelopment which called for removing “blight” from the community. To church members who are still with us today, Big Bethel was not a “blight”. It was a beacon of light and home to mentor new leaders, and a place where Black people of the time could feel the love and support of the community. Despite this, in 1957 city council members declared that Big Bethel had “outlived its usefulness,” thus enabling the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority to confiscate the church using eminent domain. In its wake, the Civic arena was built and is now home to the Pittsburgh Penguins NHL team. Meanwhile, the church of the Epiphany, which predominantly serves a white congregation only two blocks away, was spared and stands to this day. Pittsburgh law states it is illegal to seize a church using eminent domain. However, the members of Big Bethel didn’t have legal representation to pursue their claims. Big Bethel was thus compelled to move to a smaller location serving 900 members, never to be returned to its former glory. This same group sold 2.5 acres of land to the FNB Bank building project for development last year which is a few hundred yards from the original site of Bethel AME Church for $10.00. We are asking for the same consideration to sell us our land and development rights back for $10.00.

Seeing an innocent Black Man railroaded by this crooked justice system has darkened my spirit since a small child, when the same was done to my uncle. I'm writing because all too often, Black people are too afraid to speak up for their rights, or to speak up for those who are brave enough to fight back. I'm writing this because I am a mother of 3 Black humans (ages: 24, 21 and 15) and believe that Grand Master Jay's teachings and guidance would/can make an enormous impact on the lives of my children, as well as the lives of All Black People (any age). As history has shown, every strong, motivational, inspirational, spiritual and intellectually intelligent Black male figure, who has spoken up against this crooked justice system, and who talks only of Black pride and power, is either dead, in jail, or silenced. This is an undeniable fact.