By Shira Noel, HANC Board Member

If you were unable to attend the July naloxone training or did attend and would like to be prepared in case you witness an overdose, CBHS pharmacy at 1380 Howard St (at 10th St), Monday - Friday, 9am - 3:30pm, provides a free training as well as the naloxone kit.  It can also be purchased from your pharmacist without a prescription. Your doctor will write a prescription and have the cost covered by your insurance. Naloxone is an opioid antagonist and is used to reverse the effects of an overdose. It is non-addictive and is only effective if opioids are present. If no opioids are present, naloxone has no effect. It can be injected but is commonly administered as a nasal spray. 

By Tes Welborn, HANC President

Some of you may have participated in a survey, open house, or meetings over the past six to nine months about the future of UCSF at Parnassus. Those participating found that the University was planning to increase Parnassus square footage by some 30% over the 1970's Space Ceiling. The Space Ceiling was a neighborhood effort to limit Parnassus within boundaries, set a maximum average daily number of people on the campus, and stopped UCSF from gobbling up adjacent housing. With the help of Phil Burton, this became UC policy.

Many neighbors thought that the vast Mission Bay expansion would lower pressure to expand at Parnassus, but now we are finding out, this is not so. Researchers, clinicians, and faculty at UCSF's four schools [dentistry, nursing, medicine and pharmacy] are envious of the new buildings and modern equipment at Mission Bay. They are finding it harder to recruit top talent to study and work at Parnassus. This professional population at Parnassus initiated a new round of six months' of community engagement meetings and open houses. The goal is to get community agreement with an increase of some 40% in square footage within the Parnassus boundaries.

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By Calvin Welch, HANC Board Member

About forty neighbors joined our panel to discuss the dominance of "neoliberal" pro- market proposals coming from Sacramento (and room 400 at City Hall) to address the affordable housing scarcity plaguing the entire state and nation and what might be done about it.

Joseph Smooke, co-founder of People Powered Media showed a twenty minute film cleverly refuting the "pro market narrative" dominating the media .  It pointed out that San Francisco "housing crisis" is one of affordability not a failure to build housing and how the market will never produce, unassisted by regulation, housing able to be afforded by low and middle income households.

Theresa Flandrich, Housing Organizer for Senior Disability Action shared her research which showed that the average senior in San Francisco earns less than that which is required to "qualify" for what the Lee administration calls "affordable housing".  It was the policy of the Lee administration to rely on private developers to supply affordable housing in the form of "below market rate"(BMR) units in their market rate developments.  Since the lowest affordability level of such BMR housing requires an income of $40,000 a year for a single person and since most seniors rely on a social security income that averages about $18,000 a year such "market based" affordability is simply unaffordable to most seniors

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By Rupert Clayton, HANC Land Use Chair

HANC's monthly (except August) general membership meeting is usually held downstairs at the Park Branch Library, 1833 Page Street (between Cole and Shrader) on the second Thursday of the month, beginning at 7 pm.  Our meetinngs are open to the public and free to attend.

As the oldest official park in San Francisco, Buena Vista Park has seen a lot of use and in many ways is showing its age. While the City has used bond money to build new facilities and renovate old ones across many parks over the past decade, work on Buena Vista Park has been limited to maintenance and the occasional emergency project to address dangerous trees or badly broken infrastructure.

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By Shira Noel, HANC Board Member

The Homeless Youth Alliance will be providing a Naloxone training at the July HANC meeting and will also have Naloxone on hand. Naloxone is an opioid antagonist and is used to counter the effects of an opioid overdose.

It is non-addictive and only works if a person has opiods in their system; the medication has no effect if opioids are absent. 

If you want to be trained on how to safely administer naloxone but are not able to attend the community meeting please email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The July 23 meeting of the Coalition for a Complete Community, as announced on this website and in the July Voice, has been postponed.  We will let you know when the meeting has been rescheduled.

Two very different pre-application meetings have been announced for the week of July 8. 

First, on Wednesday, July 10, at 7:00 pm, there will be a pre-application meeting at 1560 Haight Street (formerly Diamond Supply Co.) for a formula retail business.  The business is a clothing store named 2^nd Street USA.  It sells primarily second-hand clothes from Japan, and has three locations in Los Angeles.  It is considered formula retail as it is the largest second-hand retailer in Japan, and its parent company owns over 1,800 stores in Japan.  

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By Richard Ivanhoe, HANC Board Member

You may have noticed that some trees have been removed from Haight Street, and other trees are surrounded by wood and plastic.  We contacted the Department of Public Works with our questions, and here’s what we were told:

38 trees are scheduled to be removed from Haight Street, and 44 trees will be planted as part of the “Haight Street Transit Improvement & Public Realm Project.” 

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