Resident Council
of
Allen Parkway Village
P.O. Box 21371 -- Houston, Texas 77226
Phone: 713/228-2109 -- Fax: 713/229-8580
Lenwood Johnson, President, apv1@ev1.net
Reasons For The Proposed Action
At Allen Parkway Village
			The Resident Council of Allen Parkway Village is asking our traditional
		supporters to join us in keeping low-income housing for needy low-income families in
		Allen Parkway Village.  If we do not keep this housing for the low-income families and
		individuals of Houston, then the 20-year efforts by many people to preserve the 1000
		units of low-income housing will have been all for nothing.  That is why we are asking
		you to join us in this proposed Action March 24, 2001, at 12:00 noon.

		1.	Two-thirds (2/3) of 333 family units at Allen Parkway Village (APV) are
			being illegally reserved for households making from $17,000 to $47,000 a
			year.  The other 167 units are for senior citizens only, who are usually on
			fixed incomes.  Taxpayers should NOT be subsidizing persons of such high
			incomes.

		2. 	The Housing Authority of the City of Houston (HACH) is using credit checks
			to deny entry to low-income families;

		3.	Requiring families to get gas and electricity in their own names, which
			requires extra deposits and which, if utitilities are cut off for failure to pay
			a bill, is legal grounds to evict families who do not have enough money to
			keep the escalating-priced utilities on;

		4.	Evicting families on the grounds that their files were not completed with all
			necessary documentation by previous manager;
	
		5.	Refusing to let the Resident Council of Allen Parkway Village (RCAPV) use
			the Community Building for the monthly residents' meetings;
		
		6.	Having maintenance staff illegally remove the Resident Council notices from
			residents' doors to keep the tenants' association from informing residents
			of their rights;

		7.	Making illegal attempts to install a new RCAPV in order to have leadership
			that they can control; including an unlawful election scheduled for Monday,
			March 26, 2001, at 6:00 p.m., illegally in conflict with the current RCAPV; 

		8.	Telling persons who are attempting to visit family and friends that they
			cannot come onto the APV property unless they live there, threatening them
			with arrest;

		9.	Allowing management to go around, opening doors of residents' apartments
			with their master keys and letting police into apartments, in what appears
			to be warrantless searches; and

		10.	Arresting and giving tickets to residents if the manager claims that the
			persons verbally abused them.