Hunters View

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

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History

The site, built in the 1940s, was recently rated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development with a score of 26 out of 100, ranking it as one of the worst housing developments in the United States,[1] with problems such as boarded-up units, lack of smoke detectors, mold, broken appliances, holes in walls, bullet holes in walls, sewage flowing through the street because of a broken pipe, and burnt out garbage cans,[2] and was the site of a housing fire in 1997 that killed 6 people.[3] The City paid off a $12 million lawsuit to the fire victims' families in April 2009. [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 It also recently received gunshot sensors due to the amount of crime in the area.[8]

Reconstruction

There are currently plans to overhaul the complex,[9] which won't break ground until 2009,[10] as the development is compared to some residents as a third-world country.[11][12]

Notable residents

References

  1. ^ Hunters View - not Sunnydale - ranks as S.F.'s worst complex
  2. ^ 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. ^ [1]
  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. ^ Bayview-Hunters Point gets gunshot sensors
  9. ^ Hunters View up for redeveloping / Housing agency to consider plan at meeting today
  10. ^ Fixing mess at Hunters View won't be quick, easy or cheap
  11. ^ Ceiling break at public housing unit draws Third World comparison
  12. ^ S.F. probe finds foul water, not sewage, doused boy in public housing