Hunters View

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Hunters View is a housing project in the Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco.

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[edit] History

The site, built in the 1940s, was rated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as one of the 27 of the top 50 worst housing developments in the United States,[1] with the majority of the units boarded up,[2] and was the site of a housing fire in 1997 that killed 4 people.[3] Eventually, the city refused to pay judgment for the fire.[4]

It is also the site of many crimes, which contributed to the homicide rate in San Francisco in the past,[5][6][7] and rent costing $1000 a month.[8][2] It also recently received gun sensors due to the amount of crime in the area.[9]

[edit] Reconstruction

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There are currently plans to overhaul the complex,[10] which won't break ground until 2009,[11] as the development is compared to some residents as a third-world country.[12][13]

[edit] Notable residents

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hunters View - not Sunnydale - ranks as S.F.'s worst complex
  2. ^ a b S.F. tenants don't trust city's motives
  3. ^ S.F. NEIGHBORS WATCH IN HORROR / Grandmother, children perish in Bayview-Hunters Point; bystanders say help was slow
  4. ^ Housing Authority refuses to pay $12 million judgment in fatal fire
  5. ^ Housing project security tightened / 10 Bayview shootings within past fortnight include 3 fatalities
  6. ^ SAN FRANCISCO / Man, 25, shot dead at housing project
  7. ^ SAN FRANCISCO / Man shot to death at housing project
  8. ^ Leaky, smelly room in a San Francisco SRO: $1,000 a month
  9. ^ Bayview-Hunters Point gets gunshot sensors
  10. ^ Hunters View up for redeveloping / Housing agency to consider plan at meeting today
  11. ^ Fixing mess at Hunters View won't be quick, easy or cheap
  12. ^ Ceiling break at public housing unit draws Third World comparison
  13. ^ S.F. probe finds foul water, not sewage, doused boy in public housing
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