No Slums In The Sunset : Backlash over affordable housing development intensifies in western S.F. neighborhood
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The Police Credit Union at 26th Avenue and Irving Street in San Francisco is the site of a planned seven-story affordable housing structure, which has some neighbors raising an outcry.Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
In early January, anonymous attack posters were slipped into mailboxes and left on doorsteps in San Francisco’s Sunset District.
The poster read, “No Slums In The Sunset.” It informed residents that a “7-story, 100-unit high-rise slum” was planned for the neighborhood and predicted that within two years the property in question at 26th Avenue and Irving Street would “become the best place in San Francisco to buy heroin.”
Several weeks ago, a respected Jamaican scientist sought my support in condemning the provision of a lease to mine in the Puerto Bueno Mountains of St Ann. I knew very little about the matter at the time and decided to inform myself. Two days later, a doctor called me. He was annoyed. He made some comments about the prime minister’s decision to make that lease available and did not wait for a response. His statements were not flattering. That Thursday, a man who is given free rein on a radio station in the afternoons made some comments about those who made the lease possible. I suspect a first-year law student could successfully bring a defamation lawsuit against him.