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Public Housing in San Francisco

by Francisco Da Costa (frandacosta [at] att.net)
Public Housing in San Francisco has enslaved thousands because the Housing Authority and the City and County of San Francisco and now Mayor Gavin Newsom has chosen to use residents in Public Housing as a ploy. The Mayor's Office of Community Development and the Mayor's cronies continue to use residents in San Francisco's Public Housing as stooges and this must stop. Jesse Blout from the Mayor's Office of Economic Development and Work Force is doing nothing to help the poor folks that live in Public Housing in San Francisco.
Public Housing anywhere should never, ever be used to keep anyone enslaved. That is what is happening in San Francisco. Public Housing was always meant to be interim but those that live in Public Housing in San Francisco are never, ever told that. Innocent folks keep living in an area that adversely impacts their health and their lives.

Public Housing especially in the Southeast Sector is very near the Hunters Point Shipyard a Superfund Site. The level of radiation from the Superfund Site has killed hundreds of innocent people. Cancer is on the rise and no one is paying any attention.

The worst criminal in this case the San Francisco Health Department and one Doctor Rajiv Bhatia. Again and again when given the opportunity the fool will not address radition and blame the other cumulative pollutants as the key factor for the rise in cancer deaths.

Lennar BVHP LLC plans to build over 1600 homes next to the worst toxic dump. Lennar and other should understand that is it imperative to get rid of the radiation and that will take billions of dollars to do the clean up. Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Dianne Feinstein have no clue about the damage they are doing to the constituents of San Francisco and those living in Public Housing that is slowly killing them daily.

For decades some families have made Public Housing their home and with it brought upon themselves the worst type of diseases. It is time folks in Public Housing are given opportunity to get out of Public Housing and into the main stream and be worthy contributing constituents of San Francisco:

http://www.franciscodacosta.com/articles/oped099.html


Francisco Da Costa
Director
Environmental Justice Advocacy
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