Protect San Francisco's Low Income Communities of Color and Working Class

The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency decides the fate of the most
vulnerable - the low income communities of color and working class
neighborhoods of San Francisco. The charge of the Redevelopment Agency is
economic development of impoverished neighborhoods. Recent decisions by the
Agency have ignored overwhelming community opinion and democratic processes;
e.g., a Redevelopment attorney determined the PAC (Project Area Committee)
elections of officers for the past seven years illegal. The Redevelopment
processes have furthered the interests of large developers over those of the
affected communities.

Current plans call for bringing almost the entire Bayview Hunters Point
community under the domain of the Redevelopment Agency by formally declaring
it a "project area." These plans, if allowed to proceed, will add to the
displacement of thousands of long-term residents and will increase
gentrification, as happened in the Fillmore/Western Addition.

This Redevelopment Agency is currently one of only two in California that
is not accountable to the voters through the oversight or control of their
elected representatives, the Board of Supervisors. Presently all seven
members of the Redevelopment Commission are appointed by the mayor, all
seven current commissioners having been appointed by former Mayor Willie
Brown. The Board of Supervisors has the authority to bring the functions of
the Redevelopment Agency under the auspices of the Board of Supervisors.

We, the undersigned, call on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to
protect the interests of San Francisco's low income neighborhoods and bring
the functions of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency under the oversight,
accountability and control of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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