George Walker, third from left, speaks Thursdsay at the Harriet Tubman housing development about the newly formed CityWide Resident Council. Ieula McGhee, Joe Clark and Perrin Lance, from left, listen.WHAT’S NEXTChattanooga Housing Authority Executive Director Betsy McCright will meet with residents at 11 a.m. the Thursday before each CHA each board meeting. CHA’s next board meeting is set for 12:30 p.m. Jan. 22.
Residents in College Hill and East Lake courts weren’t included in a decision to sell or demolish the city’s two largest public housing sites, and some don’t even know they could lose their homes, advocates said Thursday.
“We’re here today to say that things such as this should not have happened,” said George Walker, president of the newly formed CityWide Resident Council.
“And we’re going to do all we can to prevent this from happening again,” he said.
The CityWide Resident Council’s leaders say it was formed to represent more than 2,200 families living in Chattanooga Housing Authority sites. Its goal is to have more input into what happens to public housing and to oppose the demolition of more public housing sites.