Do WE need to move out in 6 months? Building project starts 22 October 2020

Yet our schools are still proceeding as if everything is normal

How can the city recommends no gathering of 250-persons or more and yet I have to send my daughter to
MV high with 2000+ students ? What's the meaning of "state of emergency" if I have to put her at risk everyday ?

I would love to speak with one of your reporter's about the experience of unhoused people, particularly at risk seniors, who have nowhere to go now that services are shutting down everywhere. The hospitals and agencies are demonstrating a profound lack of concern for the welfare of the most vulnerable. Everything from food programs to shower programs are being closed for weeks. Public health safety includes good hygiene and nutrition and rest to make people less vulnerable to disease. Where is medical respite and a safe place for people without homes to be. I have been auditing the state of services here for over a year. I could have predicted the response to a major epidemic would be to act like the homeless don't exist and don't need services to get thru the horror of not having a home and life on the streets..please e mail me with a time to talk about these issues. Mark Noack knows me and interviewed me about my situation over a year ago. Thanks for reading

Glad Mountain View declared a local emergency... but very hard to understand the first order of business at next City Council (03/17): Approving a development at 1555 W. Middlefield that will displace dozens of residents.

Instead the City should use emergency powers to do all it can to have zero displacement (moratorium on evictions, stop enforcing/banning RVs, rent freeze for mobile home....).

Any resident displaced is put at risk and puts our whole country at risk.

GIVEN that we have a NATIONAL state of emergency it looks like one situation might need to be addressed.

The SIGNIFICANT loss of EMPLOYMENT sure to occur or the simple inability for those with work not being able to have INCOME will require that other measures are going to be needed to protect the public.

England is in the course of invoking a “rent holiday” so that people are not required to pay their rent until the virus crisis is over.

That sounds logical but it also should apply to mortgages as well.

MAYBE we should get that established so that people can be safe in their current housing.

EVERYONES income is impacted by this event because just look at the losses in the stock market. Granted it looks better for the next couple of days, but the REAL problem is not yet under control, the VIRUS.

Thus the market is likely to start going down again shortly.

Given that the Nation, the State, the County, and the City have declared an emergency, it would only seem obvious that for the current time a HOUSING HOLIDAY be declared so that people will not lose their homes or apartments during this crisis.

Just thinking, otherwise the economic cost will explode even worse.

@Kirk: We'd like to hear from you, please reach out to editor@mv-voice.com.

@Kirk From our governor yesterday: "The spending bill frees up $500 million, to be increased by $50 million as needed until reaching $1 billion, to lease and activate two hospitals, help public health officials access necessary equipment and lend support to hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities.

The funds would also assist local governments in keeping the coronavirus disease, called COVID-19, out of homeless communities and would provide hotel beds for the unsheltered."
Our city should be able to help our unsheltered MV residents with a boost from the state. The logistics seem a hurdle since everything is slowly shutting down :(. Unless we are asking the MVPD to do yet another job and collect these unsheltered people. How fast can we respond and what local hotel would be available?