The people of Bayview Hunters Point are opposed to the Redevelopment Plan that would raze their homes and kick them off of the land on which they reside. Many of the 30,000 residents are deeply rooted, refuse to be moved, and want to develop their neighborhood themselves and determine their own destiny. 91% of the people who live in the neighborhood are people of color, wihch makes BVHP San Francisco's Black heartland. Corporate interests involved in redevelopment of the area would exile moderate- to low- income citizens and progressives who don’t cast conservative votes, replacing them with whiter, wealthier taxpayers who vote for money-generating initiatives.

The San Francisco Bay View is encouraging people to flood the Supervisors' phone lines with calls telling them to vote NO on the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan - or, at the least, to table it or refer it back to Redevelopment. Supervisors Daly and Mirkarimi voted NO on the Plan in the Supervisors' Finance Committee. Organizers packed the steps of SF City Hall on Tuesday, May 9th, for a rally, and to went upstairs at 2:00 for the Board of Supes meeting. While many hoped that the Supervisors would reject Redevelopment’s Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan, it was instead postponed and will come back up for a vote on May 16th.

The heavily polluted Parcel A in Hunters Point has still not been cleaned up, although plans were made months ago to put 1600 homes on that site. Read more Local residents and environmental justice activists are also concerned that there are no plans for cleanup at the site of the Bayview PG&E plant that will be closed soon.

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