Hunters View

Hunters View

Hunters View is a housing project in the Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco.

History

The site, built in the 1940s, was recently rated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development with a score of 26 out of 100, ranking it as one of the worst housing developments in the United States, [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/30/BAQ9RRNDA.DTL Hunters View - not Sunnydale - ranks as S.F.'s worst complex] ] with the majority of the units boarded up, [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/06/BAJNVED7I.DTL S.F. tenants don't trust city's motives] ] and was the site of a housing fire in 1997 that killed 4 people. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1997/12/14/NEWS10704.dtl S.F. NEIGHBORS WATCH IN HORROR / Grandmother, children perish in Bayview-Hunters Point; bystanders say help was slow] ] Eventually, the city refused to pay judgment for the fire. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/09/MNGEH3J5KJ1.DTL Housing Authority refuses to pay $12 million judgment in fatal fire] ]

It is also the site of many crimes, which contributed to the homicide rate in San Francisco in the past, [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/02/BA173344.DTL Housing project security tightened / 10 Bayview shootings within past fortnight include 3 fatalities] ] [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/04/BABADIGEST2.DTL SAN FRANCISCO / Man, 25, shot dead at housing project] ] [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/13/BABADIGEST22.DTL SAN FRANCISCO / Man shot to death at housing project] ] and rent costing $1000 a month. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/04/INL4T3EDR.DTL Leaky, smelly room in a San Francisco SRO: $1,000 a month] ] It also recently received gun sensors due to the amount of crime in the area. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/08/BASIVG4O0.DTL Bayview-Hunters Point gets gunshot sensors] ]

Reconstruction

There are currently plans to overhaul the complex, [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/11/BAG4AE669Q1.DTL Hunters View up for redeveloping / Housing agency to consider plan at meeting today] ] which won't break ground until 2009, [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/17/MN2KS4OC6.DTL Fixing mess at Hunters View won't be quick, easy or cheap] ] as the development is compared to some residents as a third-world country. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/16/BASPTCETB.DTL Ceiling break at public housing unit draws Third World comparison] ] [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/17/BAB9TE870.DTL S.F. probe finds foul water, not sewage, doused boy in public housing] ]

Notable residents

*Terell Rogers

References


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