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Whoa, I see what you mean. Those are nice homes, and REALLY nice park-space, but I assume there's plenty of gang-violence in this neighborhood? Am I right? GD's, BD's, VL's or P-Stone?
Them CPD's run this hood lol
Nah but really I don't know who claims this block.
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I can tell its the hood tho because of the street name lol.
Yes and no. In many ways the way most of the projects in SF were designed doesn't really match up well with the grid of the rest of the city... It's literally almost as though they occupy a world outside of San Francisco. In the case of Potrero Annex for example, despite how high-density the development is, the hillside landscape its built on could be very aptly described as rural.
They don't look like they're in the same city let alone the same 2-block radius.
It's not at all similar to somewhere like New York where the projects blend seamlessly into the urban fabric. Strangely enough the level of isolation of SF's oldest projects is really only matched in Middle America where the projects were built with segregation in mind... in a way SFHA echoes that school of thought much more closely than you'd think possible in a supposedly model "progressive and liberal" city.
That gives it a good view and I like sf names there streets after States.
You are wrong about that. The difference about the projects in SF and boarded homes in East Coast/Midwest cities is that some of the boarded-up units in the projects in SF are still occupied by poor people who are not homeless squatters. All of the boarded up abandomiums in places like Camden and Baltimore are not occupied housing authority properties like they are in SF. Download the documentary Straight Outta Hunters Point for elaboration. SF's projects have been rated as the worst in the country. People that live in the projects in SF often wait years for simple things, like hallway lights, to be fixed in the projects. Large pools of feces flow from decrepit project buildings in Hunters Point. All of those abandoned buildings in Camden don't have that problem.
You are wrong about that. The difference about the projects in SF and boarded homes in East Coast/Midwest cities is that some of the boarded-up units in the projects in SF are still occupied by poor people who are not homeless squatters. All of the boarded up abandomiums in places like Camden and Baltimore are not occupied housing authority properties like they are in SF. Download the documentary Straight Outta Hunters Point for elaboration. SF's projects have been rated as the worst in the country. People that live in the projects in SF often wait years for simple things, like hallway lights, to be fixed in the projects. Large pools of feces flow from decrepit project buildings in Hunters Point. All of those abandoned buildings in Camden don't have that problem.
How do you know that the boarded up homes in SF have people living in them but the midwest/ east coast ones do not. When you see a boarded up home with a nice door on it in Camden or North Philly it usually means it's a crack house but sometimes it may mean someone is still just living there. You really think SF is the only place where people wait a long time for the lights to come on? If Hunters Point is the worst looking projects in SF then SF might win the title for best looking ghett. Their waterfront projects with yards for kids to play in. I'd rather live there then many other projects in the US. I'm sure Seattle or Portland is up there with the best looking ghettos since they don't really seem to have many "bad" areas and don't suffer from much urban decay. I always thought the ghettos in LA and Compton seemed nice. They may have real high crime but a kid living in a one room apartment on the 25th floor of a building in Queens would probably love to have that house and yard.
How do you know that the boarded up homes in SF have people living in them but the midwest/ east coast ones do not. When you see a boarded up home with a nice door on it in Camden or North Philly it usually means it's a crack house but sometimes it may mean someone is still just living there. You really think SF is the only place where people wait a long time for the lights to come on? If Hunters Point is the worst looking projects in SF then SF might win the title for best looking ghett. Their waterfront projects with yards for kids to play in. I'd rather live there then many other projects in the US. I'm sure Seattle or Portland is up there with the best looking ghettos since they don't really seem to have many "bad" areas and don't suffer from much urban decay. I always thought the ghettos in LA and Compton seemed nice. They may have real high crime but a kid living in a one room apartment on the 25th floor of a building in Queens would probably love to have that house and yard.
That's all easy to say when you haven't actually been to said projects in Hunters Point. The city that has public housing that most closely resembles San Francisco's old projects in Hunters Point/Alemany/Sunnydale/Potrero Hill is Miami. A lot of the action in typical Northeastern projects happens inside the project towers... in San Francisco and Miami it all happens outside of them and in their immediate vicinity where outsiders stand a greater chance of actually being targeted.
And the homicide rates for the housing authorities don't lie... San Francisco Housing Authority averaged a homicide rate of well over 50/100,000 just last year despite San Francisco's 3 year run of relatively low O/A homicide rates (below 10/100,000), and 7 years ago during the Big Block/West Mob war SFHA's homicide rate was more like 100+/100,000. NYCHA averages between 15-20/100,000 any given year.
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