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Originally Posted by Morrigan_Dubh
Pathogen, are the housing projects government-funded houses that are leased to people under a certain income for lower rent than normal? If so, how can they destroy them and and not replace them with modern versions for those people who need them?
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MORRIGAN: I'm not sure. But the demolition of them in the not-so-distant future will be for new replacement homes--and they won't be for the low-income Black residents that currently stay in the corner of Bayview-Hunter's Point nearest to the P.G.& E. power plant. There's a strong possibility of those same Black residents being displaced. That scares me. 2 things will happen once the S.F. city government & local real-estate management companies get their way: 1) Former Bayview-Hunter's Point residents will be pushed in to the East bay, particularly Oakland & South Berkeley OR 2) they will leave the S.F. Bay Area completely. The pro-business/pro-landlord Gavin Newsom regime is counting on either happening. The city has been doing that to the Black populace of S.F. since the late 1960s, starting with the gentrification of the Fillmore I briefly mentioned in my last post. That trend continued with the wholesale eviction of the S.F. Black Panthers headquarters in the Fillmore [1972], the demolition of mostly Black-populated housing projects in the Mission/erection of expensive warehouses & "live-work" lofts [1993] & the late 1990s "dot-com boom" that brought Yuppies in from other parts of the U.$. The P.G.& E. plant will be shut down, only if the steady redevelopment of that neighbourhood continues. Want to know what the saddest part is? Sophie Maxwell--the supervisour that represents Bayview-Hunter's Point--is fully in favour of her district's facelift. For the rich tourists/sports fans & local Yuppies. This goes to show that beneath its own assertions of being a historically-progressive city, San Francisco is hella racist & classist.