Alice Griffith Housing Project is part of a redevelopment plan called HOPE SF, which has been underway for the past five years. The program seeks to transform San Francisco’s most distressed public-housing sites into thriving mixed-income communities. The staff at HOPE SF says it will rebuild every housing unit but says not everyone will get to come back.
“By the time they begin the moving, at least 60 percent of the residents will have been moved out because of gang injunctions or not having the correct paperwork or just plain misinformation,” says Grace Martinez, a grassroots organizer at Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE, formerly known as ACORN in the Bay Area.Read more at spot.us
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