SF's Potrero Hill is Changing, and Residents are Worried | KQED News
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2017
- A massive redevelopment project is underway to transform the city's public housing projects on Potrero Hill. Current residents wait to see what an uncertain future holds for them.
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To the elderly gentleman: you are not taking up space. Thank you for your service to our country.
PenelopeDinkledong S. Amen!
Indeed!!!
thanks for your RUclips comment.
PenelopeDinkledong S. Exactly. Wow, to hear him say that. 😫
thank you for living off the tax payers.
"Market rate housing." You mean 1-bedroom apartments for $4,000 a month? :(
No no, a one bedroom is between 2400 and 3200 on average. I lived in that city until recently and was only able to stay as long as I did because of rent control.
Julie Purpleskater I don't see your loser ass building housing
Julie Purpleskater moving to Chiang Mai.
My brother has a 1 bedroom for 2000 a month
In the excelsior district
The mixed income housing in SF literally has signs that say no ball playing bike riding skateboarding or rollerblades on the property wtf just say no kids or community I'm not lying 😔😔😔
They want this neighborhood because the view is stunning. It overlooks Dogpatch with a view of the bay that goes all the way to Oakland.
Hunters Point could be nice if they gentrified that area too.
They want that million dollar view to the East Bay. I deliver soda to the only 2 liquor stores in Potrero Hill and now I see mini coupes, fiat cars and white folks jogging and walking their dogs which is something I never use to see as a kid.
The people of the projects have to understand that the "projects" is not a place to just stay....it was meant to be a stepping stone to doing better to get a better life...not just accepting the fact that your poor and stay poor...imagine if the hood pulled it's resources together rather then tearing each other apart....
What's the resources you speak of in the hood?
How about the elected officials and politicians making the the owners of the projects keep them up the way that were supposed to and now. They received tax dollars and didn't do their jobs
@Billy B you an all lives matter type of fella, I'm assuming.
Bay Rafio News shut up!
Yep, government cheese is as addictive as crack.
Born on Potrero hill 1949 my grandparents built a multi family home my mother was born on the hill to …. A lot of family history and good memories….. Home will always be home to me ❤️😢💔
Hello SF Native! Both of my parents lived in Potrero Hill for a number of years in their youths (early 1950's)
This have been along thing coming.the city of San Francisco have been trying to get rip of poor peoples for years.not only san Francisco.but California as a whole
Jim Dandy. It's been clear that's been the goal for years. Tech and Real Estate speculation/Gentrification sped up the process.
jim dandy Actually they like the poor Hispanics because they stay quiet and do what the liberal whites want them to do.
nyc too.It is called gentrifiction.It is happening everywhere.
912 Connecticut Street when I was 6 years old. 1710 25th street teen years. Mom dead as well as older ppl neighbors I grew up with. When u r little it's all u see. But I wanted to be out of there. I'm out since 18. Sorry to see it go but change is better than this. Went to visit a few years ago.. All gangs! Ewww. Glad new developers finally making it right. Make sure u get the ppl there in good standing a nice place. They deserve it!!!
VideoRocketz007 Millar Good post. I'll only consider the comments from people who've actually lived there, not the knee-jerk crap from the uninformed. (I lived in SF 1993-2010)
Gangs have been there since back in the fifties
Mixed income lmao... Yeah right
a family of 4 in SF who makes $110,000 annual income is considered LOW INCOME. What has happened to this once beautiful city?
Its gonna fail, unless they have much more police in the area. But, that will happen. "Developmental communities" get looked after alot more than what the area has been used to.
Yes it will be mixed income, mixed between people who make 100,000 a year and people who make 500,000 a year. You know, from people just over the poverty line in SF to people who are solidly middle class.
Damn u from HP ddaaaaamn
Can't Beat The BAY! The people are not as inclusive as they want others to be.
1.) Take care of yourself, your being. 2.) Take care of your home, your family. 3.) Take care of your community, your neighborhood. If you and those around you do this, you will be successful and happy. Stop blaming the government, poverty, and other people. That path only leads to failure.
Hey Big John good to see you on the silver screen!! Haha. You remember me up on the corner with the dogs and the motorcycles. My best memory of you is carving up the hill and diving down Wisconsin on your Gold WIng grinning ear to ear.
Well everything changes and change is the only constant. We had to leave that shack on the corner as the rent skyrocketed. And better off for it.
Those were some good times and we were some free souls up there. Funny you mentioned Fillmore, I was in Western Addition until the '89 quake and moved up to the hill to get on some solid rock and garage space for my motorcycles. Basically, gentrification chased me around the city for 30 years and then I just said, bye SF, I have bigger dreams than you.
I could write a book most interesting about living up there for my 20 years or so. Few are those who drift off to pleasant sleep comforted by the sound of small arms.
Man Big John, I remember him, he use to ride motorcycles. ❤
This is happening in all communities not only black. But yes these people deserve permanent home and shouldn't be moved elsewhere. We live in bad times. These corrupted fraudulent landlords & developers should all be in prison for this crime they commit against poor regular people. Nobody needs their million dollar condominiums. Leave things the way they are
well you all should be directly thanking Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters they've gotten all of this for you
The city of Milwaukee did the same thing a few years back they invested
90 million dollars to create a mix income community.. The people who can afford to live anywhere are not going to live in an area where people still shoot & rob each other.. If you are not from this area you would think it was a very nice area. But until people change their minds/ behaviors it doesn't matter how nice you make an area/ housing. You have to change the 🤯 mentality 🤯
that continues to keep people stuck for generations after generations .
The American taxpayer is sick of helping people who refuse to help themselves stop trashing your own community, Sick & tired of hearing grandma on the local news saying it used to be so nice around here what happened...😡😡😡😡
Thank Gavin Newsome, who permitted his developer cronies to gentrify the neighborhood...
You can build these people a castle with million dollar paintings and art and beautiful architecture and within a year it would look like shit.
Be@ner have you ever looked south of the boarder??? Lol your family immigrated to the country that theses people's ancestors built for nothing Fuk u talking you better respect our history 👏 We aint immigrants
@@eazydee4152 Found the angry kid from a fatherless home.
@@JoseSanchez-zo5tb The worst ghetto in America ain't got nothing on ghettos in Latin America. Fix your sht holes before you speak on African Americans
@@eazydee4152 I was born and raised in San Francisco.
@@eazydee4152 he never said African americans
SF is dying.
From what? Fucking money poisoning?!?!?!?!
It's almost dead. Pushed ALL the African-American community out of the Fillmore and made it the Western Addition in what, the 1960s? So most went to the cheaper projects -- and places like the Tenderloin. NOW people want to kick everyone out of the Tenderloin AND projects to fill it with more scum suckin techies who don't care about San Francisco or it's inhabitants.
54321Truth You sound uneducated.
eon long bro you sound dumber than your name all S.F politicians care about is money the first neighborhood; community to get renovated was the Mission. No more Latinos or "illegals" 😂 living there even though that's who they portray to protect. 😂😂 clown they're turning minorities against each other and its working
Joanne Woodward sheesh white supremacy huh? Basing hispanics being punshed out of the mission for having low iqs is ridiculous! Reason why we're not as educated as you may think we are is because we're first generation; second generation immigrants. We have no other choice but to work for what we get. Never silver spooned, never born into wealth. If we go to college we pay for it not our parents. Truth is its meant for people of a certain race to succeed in the U.S. it's a system that the common person has no say so over. Rich stays rich vice versa. Oh well It is what it is we come from third world countries and you seem like you came from falala land. I understand sometimes we as humans don't think before we act, speak, or type
I was born on Potreo Hill, lived on Dakota Street and Missouri Street. Potreo Hill was always a hidden gem. Had real good times there, i used to go to Klein's Deli which was a classic Sandwich Shop now they're not even there anymore. Goat Hill had the best pizza around. Pro-Am hoops started in Potreo Hill also before they moved that. Potreo Hill always offered the best view also before the gentrification came in, they began building tall buildings and taking away the view from the residents who once lived in Potreo Hill and still live in Potreo Hill. There's no place like Potreo Hill. Shout out to Hard Knox Cafe in the Dog Patch which is one of the few remaining businesses still around.
Mixed income community in San Francisco means people making over 90K and year and people making 500K a year living together in the same neighborhood.
Perhaps the developer could renovate, rather than demolish. More debris in landfills is more pollution. Help existing residents remain in their homes. Perhaps hire them to help with the renovation. America is fed up with the uber wealthy doing this type of destructive schemes.
My first husband and I lived on Potreo Hill in the 60's and it was great and friendly. Lilly
I lived on Dakota street from 1964 til 1979, it was good back then, I had to move out and glad I did, although I still miss the city of the old days
Potrero Hill projects is where O.J.Simpson grew up.
Andrew Blackadder I grew up on Dakota street in the projects back in the 60s 70s it was good back then, I went to the gym all the time there too
True
@@katherinedougherty6250 :Wouldnt want to go around there today, or Hunters Point. All dangerous thanks to you-know-who...
Andrew Blackadder yes I stay away, it’s not like it use to be, for sure
It all about the money.if you have big money.you are welcome to stay.if not you got to go
Man from Seattle to San Diego they done moved us out of the city it cost so much to live anywhere on the west coast
Went from affordable housing to mixed income. (Mixed Income) Affordable housing, Market rate and Above market rate housing. That means the low income folks will be the minority out of the bunch. Who do you think will be weeded out first??? Once they weed out the lower income folks their plan succeeds
better to have mixed income dispersed throughout the city than sequester all the affordable housing people in certain locations.
The type of people that live there will just trash it anyway.
That's something they dont want to admit to.
You are weak attack ur bosses who put people in this positions like the draft and fighting for some fake country with a black budget that is top secret aka " making the rich richer" while you point fingers at the suffering. The truth is with the oppressed. We shall overcome the first shall be last and the last shall be first.
It's gentrification. It's happening in cities all over the country.
aww come on ,its jerry brown and the land of democrats,social justice and shit,surely not?
no, actually it's the fat republican turds who own everything.
@@MrDonkeyslobber not SF public housing. lets be real.
I use to live in Potrero Hill, 918 Connedicut St. They are moving out the old and in with the new. Destroying the old Potrero Hill projects to make it nice for the rich to move in. Its a million dollar view to the East Bay. Housing authority are full of shit!!.
We're from the government and we're here to help. The 9 scariest words in the English language!
All facts.
Mixed income community? So can we expect Jill Stein and Jerry Brown to live in one of these "homes"? Yeah, didnt think so.
jerry's already got a nice pad. you don't understand the idea of mixed income i guess. that's what they have now. just not a very even mix.
You're right, I was ignorant before but now I see. So he has a mixed-income of state money and corruption money and money stolen from the state coffers...I am now enlightened.
Praying for the community #PH
I live a few blocks away from these neighborhoods and witness this construction first hand. So sad they are kicking these people out to put up new buildings and some are already ready to have people move in
I've been a resident of San Francisco since 1999.I'm married with 5 sons,My wife and I see all the development, and I feel like I'm not.
I need a follow up to this story, please let us know what has happened to these people.
:(
is it :(
who cares?
imagine america without us low income soulful beings
Nine45 Eight7 *Lol!* I think...
You can.. robots are creeping in to take jobs soon enough.
Landlords are overcharging us. Greedy!! Utilities are greedy
this is why you never want to be dependent on the state or city government, youre at their mercy. problem is with the prices here you have no choice unless you want to move across the country where you can still get an apartment on a single income.
I was doing a little work for a friend left my beat up old ladder out for a few minutes and when I went round to grab it .... Gone !
I’m from Potrero hill
I was born up there on Connecticut street in 1975 .o.j Simpson is originally from there.
Not colleting rents?
I want pub housing. Where are my gibs?
Wait, they said housing authority is not collecting rent so they. An let the building run down. Who is responsible for rent? Shouldn't tenants pay rent? If they are, then the housing authority should have money for the upkeep of these properties.
The money is there, it's just not flowing down to the maintenance, if you get my drift. Corruption, corruption, corruption.
California for Rebublican
Isn't this where Ron and Nicole's murderer was born?😳😮😦
I understand both sides of the argument.
Why would you want mixed income communities? What's the supposed benefit of that? How is that imagined to play out? People make money to move out of poor communities, not to move back into them. And when there are rich people who live in poor communities, they are generally hated, resented, and frequently robbed, and sometimes murdered, just for having more. People hate that.
Let me explain something. When you have money and live in a poor community, they feel comfortable asking you for stuff. By stuff I mean constantly asking for loans which they don't pay back. If you give them, they'll bleed you dry. They'll adjust their standard of living to what they can afford with your supplementary 'loaned' income. They get accustomed to it, come to take it for granted; and then if you fail to give it, they can get really angry.
So, I don't see how they envision this playing out in a positive way. Here's how riches work. The people who have them want to get away with them before they can be taken away. And those who don't have them want to take them away from those who do, and usually further punish those who had them for having had them. None of them want to just live together in mixed communities.
Most rich people know this instinctively. You don't just parade expensive stuff in front of have-nots. Even if they don't take it, it's a cruel and insensitive display on your part. Good people don't want to do that.
brindlebriar youre blowing that way out of proportion mission street and valencia st are two different worlds and yet there they're.The rich already own houses in the hills and everywhere else "they" dont have to move.Your scenario of people getting mad when you stop loaning things meh" they"tend to get over it.jobs jobs jobs.SF bureaucracy is wasteful and mismanaged and of course as is the given of politics are politicians milking the system via contracts and backroom deals aka Willie Brown.Think of course. What you will.
'without ever working'... where do you think you get your weed from? That's big business, dangerous business, jobs you don't want to do. But 90+% of Silicon Valley tachies probably purchase and smoke the product, and consider themselves heroes for _not_ helping to produce it or taking on any share in the risks. They get to use it while despising those who sell it to them for selling to them what they want, and use, and would be upset if they lost access to.
The fact that a good or service is illegal doesn't make it easy to render. That makes it considerably harder and more dangerous, though it doesn't effectively diminish the availability, precisely because of the brave men and women of our country(and south of the border) who put their lives on the line every day to serve the techies of the first world, striving for excellence without fail, in the face of persecution and murder to supply our marijuana needs.
And where are the monuments to the fallen? The pensions, the dedicated hospitals, the social prestige and respect?
Their reward is that once we have beaten them all the way into the ground, fucked their women(that's the only part I'm into) enslaved their sons, and jailed sufficient of their numbers to cow the rest, we give them some food to eat, and maybe some shelter for the women and de-fathered children, but not often for the men.
It's nice to be a greater being. I'm patting myself on the back right now. But you're right. Everyone is poor and enslaved by this corrupt system, including the techies who think they're smart, and the Silicon Valley techies keep voting the slave master Democrats into office and funding their campaigns and providing back doors in their software for the CIA to surveil every human being until they can predict everything you do before you even know you want to do it and there is no longer any means of even hypothetically fighting back against what will have then become, by definition, an absolute totalitarian hegemony, making Orwell's prediction in 1984 incorrect only in so far as being off the temporal mark by a few decades.
Odd that the 'greater beings' seem to vote the same way as the 'lesser beings,' and both demographics almost invariably for the furtherance of their own enslavement. Do the Zuckerberger types actually imagine they're going to be left at the helm, holding the reins of the surveillance machines for their own personal frivolities, after they have finished building them and are no longer useful?
These are naieve children who grew up in 'everybody-gets-a-trophy' soccer-mom culture. Even the the 'testosterone poisoned,' 'toxicly masculone' _CARTOONS_ we used to watch - a few episodes of "G.I. Joe" - would have better prepared them to conceptualize what evil masters do with 'allies' who have served their purpose.
'Relatively intellectually suited to techy stuff, on average?' Probably, yes. 'Greater beings?' LoL. You'd have to apply one wacky standard. Nobody's even willing to fuck those kids unless they get paid a whole Lot. And then they go home and vomit.
sad. The bureaucrat doesn't come across real well when you compare him to the vet.
I grew up their near hunters point.... The probole is sad but true.. Too many gangs and drug usages...but also most of the people are the problem. Don't pay rent tossing trash out side.
Looks more like the projects.
I don’t know what they’re going to do with me.
God bless these families...this is terrible
Now raise all the rents and mortgages 20 times higher like you know is going to be done.
give me give me... some of these people can go to work earn moneyyy
stop using the system.
you're hysterical. take a sedative.
The lady says it correctly there is no hope.
They're creating a slum.
If you’re on welfare, or in public or government housing you don’t need or have it owed to you to live in San Francisco. The money it takes to build housing for the needy would be much better spent and would house a lot more people in need if they were built I places like Tracy, Modesto or Stockton just to name a few. The sense of entitlement is breathtaking. The working poor, who work in SF, some with more than 1 job can’t afford to live there so why should folks who are completely dependent on gov’t and don’t work at all feel entitled to live there? Amazing
Manhattan is expensive too. Capitalism. Try Bel Aire, California, Miami perhaps.
There goes the neighborhood.
Potreo hill what’s up with that naid???? Much luv from East Palo Alto rouge!
Build it and they will come. Subsidize poverty, create poverty. Put us with the bad people', she says.' Don't know what they gonna do with me,' she says. 'We don't have a choice' she says. Certain government entities create this dependence and mindset, and then it grows.
Brought a tear to my eye. San Francisco is dead.
Chick in the green made a lot of sense.
Even tho those projects are grimey they still gonna look uglier when they rebuilt
The moral to the story is: Good bye POOR PEOPLE, Hello to people with $$$$.....End of story.
Question : Good or bad?
Trying to revitalize neighborhoods, where most residents have a disregard for the property and disrespect for others, is throwing good money after bad. They have done this for years and it has never worked and never will. It takes the residents themselves to give a damn about where they live if they want it to be a place of pride rather than embarrassment.
It’s only a money grab.. they are all gonna get KICKED OUT
If they don't pay your rent then you can't stay.
This is going on all across this nation and nobody is saying anything about it, and they call this the United States! Nothing about this country is United, never has and never will. One thought to ponder when considering things might get better, "Power concedes nothing, never has and never will!"~ Frederick Douglass~
it started with federalism, monti. a runaway freight train. just clear out of the way.
Mixed income for the first year, then they will eventually push out all the low income
S.F General is up There ' Prescription Bingo in the Main Lobby Rx
"market rate" and " mixed income" in SF are very far away from each other. Rich get richer. Poor get poorer.
No more public housing .
The city and the state and the government should not be giving out hand out to people who can't take care of themselves they should teach them how to be responsible and her money and force them to be productive in exchange for housing.
They push blacks out of San Francisco.to Oakland.and from Oakland to? Well you gets the picture
into the Bay itself?
Antioch and I'm totally cool with that. I'll take Mexican, Chinese or Indian neighbors over blacks anytime of the day..
Sacramento
If they are focused on the residents who have BEEN there, why move inn the illegals...How can they be here living and getting assistance...
the illegals have been there since they were called indians, dear.
This world......
that dude has been there since 55? whats wrong with him? Ok hes a vet....and?? git on wit yo bad self...do something with your life..IT's public housing for gauds' sake..>!!
Never let the government house or feed you.
It’s sad they gentrifying the whole city now
well work hard and play hard
i live there
"We don't have a choice!" Yeah you do. Quit pumping out kids, get off your ass and get a JOB. The government doesn't owe you sh*t. EARN it.
Now they do. Reparations.
This is an entitled Karen or Kevin. I did get a job. They profited from my labor and gave nothing in return. This is gentrification period.
You need big high rises not little condos, you need to fit more people in the same space, you have to build up...smh
Doe' do i Right, but not in SF. It's ALL ABOUT THE VIEWS, BABY, DO NOT BLOCK MY VIEW. It's the fault of the beautiful, 360 vistas of the bay.
We must protect poverty! We must stop wealth!
i assume you're being sarcastic, but of course you are correct.
I'm so happy this is happening. Now I won't be so afraid driving through this neighborhood.
Kennedy Grey sf2toyko is a bs'ter troll. It probably never been through the community at all. Many of these trolls are online to get the ppl into arguments. To get and keep ppl divided!
WORDto BIGbird Hammites
jake armitage LMAO...Page 213 Zondervan's Compact Bible Dictionary: Ham - The youngest son of Noah, born probably about 96 years before the Flood; and one of eight persons to live through the Flood. He became the progenitor of the dark races; not the Negroes, but the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Libyans and Canaanites.
jake armitage Your brother is telling you that everyone in North Africa was dark including you know the cats that made the Pyramids and LIBYA where the fake Arabs set up shop? BTW the place so-named Israel is actually on the tectonic plate(continent) called Africa LMAO.
Grow up.
"Mixed-income". Rich and richer. 415, 206 R I P
they gonna move these people to the east bay. watch.
Mixed income yeah right .... smh
You need the tax payer to pay for other people who are and have never been able to take care of business, to flip the bill. Sitting on your ass for fifty years and worried about where they are going to move you. ENTITLED!
That's the way of the world. Don't like it, make more money and be one of the ones kicking people out.
OJ’s old Hood
Millions dollar views
oobiedoobiegoo *lip flapping intensifies*
liberal tax and excessive regulation policies will eventually destroy the communities they control. Hope is working, earn what you need.
Yuppie ville
Mixed income community lmao. Like what, between $2000-$4000 rent?