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The San Francisco Department of Elections announced yesterday that proponents of a referendum on Bayview-Hunters Point Redevelopment had submitted over 33,000 signatures. This is over 50% more than the 20,800 required, and gives the campaign sufficient breathing room when the random sampling for signature validity occurs Friday. The petition count comes as the San Francisco 49ers and the Lennar Corp. have announced further plans for the Bayview-Hunters Point community---plans that have never ...

With the recent murders, shootings, killings, and general increase in crime the City and County of San Francisco should have declared an Emergency when it homes to Health and Safety. All over the City of San Francisco innocent hard working folks are afraid that they may fall victim to crime. In the interim Mayor Gavin Newsom is making excuses and those entities that should maintain Law and Order are pointing fingers and not taking full responsibility for the dire consequences on their time a...

Recent events involving 29-year-old Omeed Aziz Popal, an Afghan-American male accused of running over 14 people in San Francisco, have highlighted the necessity for Afghan-Americans to begin to discuss taboo topics like mental health. In the following piece, one Afghan woman struggles to come to terms with the full truth behind her uncle's death....

Organizers of the effort to place a referendum on Bayview Redevelopment before San Francisco voters submited more than 30,000 signatures to the Elections Department yesterday. The signatures arrived in grand style, when a polished black hearse accompanied by a three-piece jazz band playing New Orleans-style dirges pulled up in front of City Hall. A velvet-lined coffin emerged from the back of the hearse, filled with the voter-signed petitions and emblazoned with the phrase 'Bayview Redevelopm...

Brian O'Flynn that wild Irish Man took on the world when he took one SF Redevelopment Agency (SFRA). The issue SFRA declaring large areas as the Project Area without meaningful dialog with the community. The Bayview Hunters Point has some of the most beautiful homes - in fact 60% of the people own their homes. SFRA thought they could come in and take homes, land, under their stupid dicatates and using the BVHP Project Area Committee that is illegal....

City Officials Take Heat Over Housing Authority's Failures...

Not a day passes, that I do not thank the gods for my housing. I have been homeless so many times this lifetime, that I do not take housing for granted, *at all.* When you realize homelessness can happen to you, it looks very different than some impersonal street scene. Because homelessness will forever be a wolf howling at my door, I am always too close to being a homeless woman, which is why I cry, most probably. I cry for me, in them. And them, in me....

With his support this week for a minimum wage hike and a low-cost prescription drug program, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger continues to, as a front-page Los Angeles Times story put it, “rob” Phil Angelides of key issues. Having made peace with labor unions, Schwarzenegger may also reduce anger over his gay marriage veto by signing legislation allowing domestic partners to file joint state tax returns. But when it comes to tenants, the Governor has remained solidly in the landlords’ camp. Now...

This compilation of news and events marking the first anniversary of Katrina and the atrocities committed in its name is taken from the Aug. 23 edition of the San Francisco Bay View newspaper, and we are spreading the word through this list until our website, www.sfbayview.com, is back online. A popular website that drew 2 million hits a month, it's been badly hacked and is now under reconstruction....

When is the last time you heard the President mention housing? In all of his State of the Union addresses and stump speeches combined, the issue of housing simply never comes up. While it's obvious that Mr Bush has other priorities such as the war and tax breaks for the wealthy, he has been known to at least give lip service to some issues that are important to working people such as health care, jobs and social security. Even if we on the left don't like what he has to say about these issues...