This is an image of a 157 Unit housing project with 20% affordable and low-income units with below market-rate artisian studios on ground floor that should have been completed in 2017. It was never built because Supervisor Hillary Ronen killed the project:
The image Below is what it looks like today because Hillary Ronen blocked the above 157 Unit housing complex with 20% affordable/low income units and below market-rate artisinal studios on the ground floor. The project would have been completed in 2017. Instead, it became an enormous 20 tent encampment surrounding the property (1/2 a city block) for over ten months in 2016. It then became a blighted empty lot with illegal dumping and criminal activity, a Navigation Center for over a year, and now it's a graffiti covered Safe Sleeping Area with 40 tents and 60 homeless individuals since the start of the pandemic.
VIEW FROM MY WINDOW October 11, 2021
Dear Hillary Ronen,
Today I am seeing a cardboard structure used as a shelter being enforced by metal city gating with a No-Camping sign attached to it that abuts the Safe Sleeping Area. The fencing around the Safe Sleeping Area is still covered with graffiti. In 2017 when the property was used as a Navigation Center, there was at least some pretense to cover up the injustice of cycling hundreds of the city's most severe mentally ill and drug and alcohol addicted people through our neighborhood. Now, the city could care less what the people who live here have to experience day in and day out.
We now have huge encampments that languished for years-- particularly the one on Capp and 25th. Also, one that is next to the Safe Sleeping Area on South Van Ness has been there for at least a year if not longer.
An encampment next to a bus shelter half a block from the safe sleeping area has been completely taken over by a huge encampment
People are regularly kicked out from the safe sleeping area and have set up a encampment across the street from Safe Sleeping Area. These people, who do not follow the rules in the Safe Sleeping Area, are now in front of our houses.
The 25th and Capp Street encampmentss have been here since 2019 and, last I looked, there were more tents across the street in front of the telephone building.These are only a fraction of the encampments that are on my block or within a couple blocks from me. Right now, there is a huge encampment on Shotwell and 23rd in front of the Polish Community Center.
It's been a relentless onslaught of out-of-control encampments since 2016 and is only made worse by people like you who are beholden to special interest groups that discourage reasonable housing being built and a city policy that encourages and actively enables people to take over our public sidewalks for their own private use. Naturally, the people hurt worst from your policies are those that live in neighborhoods like mine, not Bernal Heights where you live. There is an unequal distribution of pain from your policies and me and my neighbors are on the receiving end of that pain.
Sincerely,
Francesca Pastine
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