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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?
Yeah it does. Potrero Annex (the project pictured in his post) is a slum in every sense of the word... it's a high-density, high-crime, impoverished (average household income is $14,000 vs. $65,000 for the city of San Francisco) isolated and very dilapidated slice of hell that hasn't been structurally renovated since it was built in 1941. Sadly enough though there's considerably worse-off than it in SF.
That can describe alot of housing projects across the country
That can describe alot of housing projects across the country
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.
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.
It does look like a completely different city compared to the surroundings. Segregation at it's finest. But then again, I'm sure they were built a while ago.
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