This “ground lease” keeps the buildings under government oversight, and ensures that these residents get government money to help with rent.But how will things change for residents like Davis when a developer is the landlord?“Now we will have to do the annual review with BRIDGE as well as Housing,” Davis says.Every year residents go down to the property office, bringing all of their documents with them: IRS, social security, proof of whatever income or benefits they receive.
9.5 /10. And integrating market rate housing on the sites.” This will nearly triple the number of housing units on this land, going from 619 units to an estimated 1,700 units. But when I went to visited, there was no security. The buildings were good, but HOPE VI built fewer units than they demolished, and many residents were permanently displaced. “HOPE SF is designed according to really rigorous non-displacement principals.” says Theo Miller, director of HOPE SF. Irish Hill was a small working-class neighborhood in San Francisco, near the intersection of 22nd Street and Illinois Avenue.Expansion of the local iron and steel works, including leveling of the hill, effaced the neighborhood in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her office is in the same barrack-style building as the public housing in the neighborhood. In the 1940s and ‘50s, jazz clubs and theatres made the Fillmore district famous as the Harlem of the West. So now he has to pay for every load of laundry. The sites also have notable community assets including spectacular views of the San Francisco Bay and downtown skyline, a wide array of gardens cared for by residents on-site (aided by the relatively sunny and warmer climate as compared to the rest of San Francisco), a walking school bus as part of a Safe Routes to School program, community-based organizations, the Potrero Health Clinic, and significant health and wellness programming run by BRIDGE Housing, the developer of the Rebuild Potrero project.The Rebuild Potrero project will demolish and rebuild the site in its entirety as a mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhood, replacing all 606 public housing units, plus up to 1,000 moderate and market-rate units while also building a new grid street network. It was a public/private partnership that stretched through the ‘90s and early 2000s using $118 million in federal grants, as well as $186 million in private and public funds to redevelop projects such as Valencia Gardens and North Beach. The Potrero Hill Neighborhood House was all of that and so much more. The Transportation Authority project team actively conducted outreach in the Potrero Terrace and Annex community. That neck brace. “And the only condition for them moving into a new unit,” Miller says, “is that they need to be in quote-unquote ‘good standing.’” What does that mean?
Lifelong Potrero Hill resident Shervon Hunter gives the opening blessing. We are not building condos and kicking people out,” Miller says. They’re making space for their voices to be heard, at least by each other.Governor Gavin Newsom, last week, signed AB5: that’s legislation that transforms the way workers are identified and get paid in California.Resident Harold Davis takes a break from packing up his old public housing unit, before his move into 1101 Connecticut.Shervon Hunter gives the opening blessing at the ribbon cutting ceremony for 1101 Connecticut.Credit Van Meter Williams Pollack, LLP / BRIDGE Housing Families should have multiple chances to stay in that building.” 1101 is just the beginning of Potrero’s transformation.
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But blocks will still be divided by income. That’s because despite the monthly meetings that BRIDGE and HOPE SF held, there are issues on the ground that the developer and the city didn’t anticipate. “I’m glad we’re finally moving!” She tells me she didn’t get to pick out her new apartment, and won’t have a view. So now protections for these former public housing tenants lie with the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. “I have to take that into consideration in my pricing because some people feel it’s a little more ‘sketchy’ there — let’s put it that way.”Homes on the hill vary in price depending on factors such as condition, safety of the surrounding area, and whether or not the property has city views or walking access to various restaurants and shops.According to Olk, the south slope is becoming more attractive to buyers because of its walkability to different types of commerce in the Mission District.While residents of the north side are primarily concerned with package theft and car break-ins, the crimes on the south side tend to be more violent and often stem from altercations between individuals that are familiar with each other.However, according to the police officers who patrol the housing developments, the safety of the neighborhood as a whole has increased over the last ten years.“It’s almost night and day,” Officer Thompson said.