CalEnviroScreen 5.0, a tool used to measure environmental racism, has been criticized for not accurately reflecting the lived reality of Hunters Point, San Francisco, due to its omission of radiological contamination and cancer burden indicators, which could lead to reduced funding and regulatory attention for the area.
Open Door Legal, a San Francisco nonprofit, has been accused of accepting public funds to provide legal services to vulnerable residents in Bayview-Hunters Point, but failing to provide adequate representation and closing its doors when asked to do so.
The City of San Francisco is being called upon to strengthen environmental oversight in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, which has experienced decades of industrial burden and has been exposed to fraud and contamination, in order to protect the health and safety of its residents.
The Pacific Legal Foundation has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court seeking to halt the city’s reparations framework, arguing that the city’s actions were not societal but municipal, planned, legislated, and profitable, and that the city’s discrimination was systematic and too general to repair.
Seven candidates debated in the Ruth Williams Opera House in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco, on topics such as immigration, affordability, public safety, and Proposition 36, while the Black Action Alliance and Theo Ellington demanded accountability and recognition of the area’s legacy of government neglect and environmental harm.
The City of San Francisco has been accused of rewarding corporate landlords with multimillion-dollar contracts despite their repeated mistreatment of tenants, prompting a call for the State to intervene and ensure equal protection under the law.
Despite Mayor Daniel Lurie’s personal tour of the unsafe housing conditions in Bayview-Hunters Point, Related California continues to be awarded public contracts and subsidies, raising questions about the City’s commitment to holding corporate landlords accountable.
Pearci “PJ” Bastiany, a 30-year-old candidate for District 10 Supervisor, is proposing innovative solutions to San Francisco’s housing and public safety issues, such as the use of modular and maritime housing, and the deployment of trained martial artists as unarmed security personnel.
By Elina Lingappa SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Organizers and politicians from Wealth and Disparities in the Black…