Affordable Housing Initiative on June ballotIt's official. The Affordable Housing requirement for the Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard Mixed Use Development Project Initiative, has qualified for the June 3 ballot.
This means that voters will decide on two BVHP-related measures this summer: the Lennar-led Mixed Use Project for Candlestick Point and the Shipyard, and the community-led Affordable Housing requirement, which demands that 50 percent of housing to be built as part of the Lennar led project, be affordable
Michael Cohen of the Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development complained, at a SF4Democracy presentation last night. that the community initiative has been drawn up without an economic feasibility report. Cohen also told the Guardian, when I asked about Lennar's troubled financial picture, that it's not written in stone that Lennar would be the Candlestick/Shipyard project developer.
Either way, it looks like issues around Lennar's less than perfect environmental monitoring performance at the Shipyard won't be going away any time soon.
Members of SLAM claim that they didn't oppose Lennar's development at Parcel A of the Shipyard, until the developer broke community trust by failing to properly monitor and control naturally occurring asbestos dust at its construction site--a failure that exposed the community to unknown quantities of asbestos, a known carcinogen.
They also claim that their initiative is an effort to protect the BVHP community from wholesale displacement
As POWER organizer Alicia Schwartz said in a press release sent to the Guardian today,
“In the last 20 years, San Francisco has seen an epidemic of African American and family displacement, largely driven by the skyrocketing cost of housing. Our initiative is straightforward—it guarantees that community benefits will be realized by Bayview Hunters Point residents.”
Affordable Housing Initiative for Bayview Hunters Point would require that at least 50% of the housing units built through the Mixed Use Development Project for Candlestick Point and Hunters Point be affordable to San Francisco residents making 30, 60, and 80% of area median income, and would mandate that Alice Griffith public housing development be rebuilt with no displacement of current residents.
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