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San Francisco public housing residents name on Housing Authority to treatment ‘harmful’ residing circumstances – East Bay Occasions

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SAN FRANCISCO – Residents of San Francisco’s public housing development Potrero Hill and Sunnydale this week urged the city’s housing authority to deal with what they believe to have failed to repair units, resulting in dangerous living conditions.

The San Francisco Housing Authority owns and operates two public housing developments, the Potrero Hill Property and the Sunnydale Property, located in the Visitation Valley neighborhood.

A total of around 3,800 people live in the two settlements.

Although the city is currently engaged in housing rebuilding and renovation at the Sunnydale and Potrero Hill locations, the project plans to rebuild the rundown council housing and create additional marketable units to create new mixed income housing developments. t be completed for several years.

According to United Front Against Displacement supporters, the residents of the public housing in Potrero Hill and Sunnydale, who have not yet been relocated to new units, are living in unsafe conditions.

On Thursday, United Front Against Displacement revealed several recent complaints filed with the agency by local residents – complaints that included issues such as leaking pipes, mold and bedbugs.

The group said the complaints went unanswered by the SFHA.

“For years, the San Francisco Housing Authority has practiced a consistent pattern of willful negligence in their properties, irresponsibly forcing residents to move into dangerous homes that have major mold problems, pests and the like,” United Front Against Displacement officials said in a statement on Thursday.

“Residents of Sunnydale and Potrero Hill, the two remaining public housing in San Francisco, are fed up with SFHA’s inaction and apologies. Residents are organizing with their neighbors to stand together and demand that their homes and buildings be repaired while remaining public housing and not being turned over to private developers and management companies, “the group said.

Although SFHA currently manages two locations, a takeover by Eugene Burger Management Corporation is planned.

According to United Front Against Displacement, residents were notified for 90 days in September that their leases with SFHA will be terminated as EBMC will begin managing developments in December.

Under a private landlord, residents would have fewer rights and would be more vulnerable to rent increases and evictions, the group said.

As of last week, local residents have held two separate protest rallies, one on October 15 at the Sunnydale site, when Mayor of London Breed, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, US Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a media event highlighting the Build Back Better Act. Local residents held another protest on Monday, this time in front of San Francisco City Hall.

The SFHA did not respond to a request for comment.

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