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Maria_lvngstn 05/11/2012 3:35:00 AM
How dare you ignorant self-centered, selfish, narcissistic, arrogant full of shit think your better than the poor loser. Do you really think you have an intellectual opinion on tne matter. You sound like a true snob. God help you if you ever find yourself in the poor house. Who do you think you are stating that people should leave Ann come back when they can afford it. I pity idiots like you, but one thing is guaranteed in life eventually you will get pushed off your high horse. You will have your day when you are humbled and lose everything. Everybody needs to fall at one point in their life but you, your fall will be long and hard beacause you are selfrighteous n that even worst. I feel sorry for you.
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08/01/2011 5:08:00 PM
Sure, get in line behind those who want an injunction against busybody NIMBYs in the Mission.
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08/01/2011 5:07:00 PM
This is a real shame, and typical of the unintended consequences of official paternalism.
If Amos Brown thinks violating people's rights and breaking up families with injunctions is such a great thing, perhaps he should be fired as president of the San Francisco Housing Authority commission and receive an injunction to stay away from government employment!
In the bigger picture, government-run housing absolutely has been a failure. All of those units should be deeded to the tenants who live in them, and the Housing Authority abolished.
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Truth 07/19/2011 6:30:00 AM
Mr Jackson was not truthful with the information he provided in this article!
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Guest 07/15/2011 2:53:00 PM
The public housing projects are a major economic and social failure and should be phased out. Existing housing should be used for the homeless to transition back into housing not multi-generational dependence. Those currently in public housing need to be reintegrated back into the socio-economic mainstream.
Unfortunately this cynical and racist social policy of isolating people onto a reservation continues. San Francisco intends to rebuild housing at a cost of approximately $500,000 per unit. Despite the high per unit cost these projects are typically poorly constructed, expensive to operate and deteriorate due to the poor over sight and corruption with your tax payer funded projects. How many people actually want to live in or around these projects? With the exception of the corner liquor stores, where are the adjacent thriving commercial corridors? Yes, decent single family homes can be bought in many parts of the country for about $100,000. It would make more sense for the government to use your tax money and money they borrow from China to buy up distressed housing rather than continuing the same mistake over and over again.
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WhySF? 07/14/2011 9:15:00 PM
Affordable housing should be transitional, not generational. When will the taxpaying citizenry of San Francisco unite and fight against such a rabid waste of our tax dollars?
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07/13/2011 8:03:00 PM
The idea of hugely subsidized housing for the poor, concentrated and racially segregated, does not make sense or provide any benefit to the residents or neighbors. In fact, it provides a huge disservice. These folks SHOULD leave SF to cheaper areas and then come back when they can afford it - or not and be happy elsewhere. MANY many ethnic groups have done that without the injection of the cancerous public housing curse....
Public housing has been a failure, and many children and adults lives laid to waste. Visit the public housing in SF and it is clear how big of a failure. It is really unimaginable how this exists. Does the SFHA have a white paper on residents and their statistical success in education, finance, and professional growth? Of course not...and for obvious reasons, the white paper would illustrate a human tragedy unfolding, largely for African American families destroyed. Multi-generational destruction...
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07/13/2011 5:00:00 PM
I've seen the horrors of off-lease tenants at the $42 million HUD Hayes Valley HOPE VI Housing Development, managed by McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc. Most of them are dead or in Federal prison now.
If these guys are real boy scouts they should have some kind of supervised housing where they can prove it, not an unmanaged free-for-all like SF's public housing.
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guest 07/13/2011 4:53:00 PM
Public housing wasn't created for people to squat for decades.
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07/13/2011 4:33:00 PM
Poor crack addict. I thought that was what public housing was built to accomodate.
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Anonymous 07/13/2011 3:59:00 PM
Can I get an injunction against loud drunken hipsters in the mission?
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Maria 07/13/2011 3:10:00 PM
What a bizarre edge case story about one bizarre edge case person.
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07/13/2011 6:22:00 AM
Cry me a river. It's public housing. Get your act together and get off the dole. The citizens who pay for the housing (and the food stamps and the welfare checks), the vast majority of whom live paycheck-to-paycheck without any assistance from the federal government, deserve better from the beneficiaries of their largess than this.
