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By Karen Fishkin, HANC Board Member

Mohammed Nuru attended the last HANC meeting, to share the latest endeavorsof his department.  The audience was especially interested in how his workforce treat homeless folks that they are tasked with moving on, and cleaning up after.

He stated strongly that staff are told to keep any belongings of homeless residents, to give them information on how thy may reclaim them, and to do a written inventory of all items confiscated.

Several audience members let him know that they either knew first hand or had heard from others, that what should be done was not always what happened on the streets.  Many people have watched their stuff disappear into the back of a garbage truck, never to be seen again.

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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.

Even a brief trip to Haight Street or one of the city’s many so-called “neighborhood commercial districts” (NCDs) is enough for a visitor to see that there are a whole lot of empty storefronts around San Francisco. This clearly is a bad trend for merchants and residents and the discontent has now reached the Board of Supervisors.

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As you know, there has been ongoing construction on Haight Street.  The Department of Public Works calls this the “Upper Haight Transit Improvement and Pedestrian Realm Project.” 

Phase I of the project consists of sewer replacement work.  It began in September, 2018, and is expected to end in May.  At the time the Voice was sent out for publication, work was expected to progress at the Cole and Haight intersection and along both the north and south sections of Cole Street, as well as in the western half of the block of Haight Street between Shrader and Stanyan.  A small section of sewer lateral pipe near the corner of Haight and Clayton was also scheduled to be replaced.

Phase II of the project is expected to begin in mid-May and is anticipated to be completed by September, 2020.  Phase II will include increased pedestrian lighting, tree planting, bulb-outs and curb ramps, bus bulbs, sidewalk replacement, street base repairs and repaving, some fiber conduit work and a decorative sidewalk at the Haight and Ashbury intersection.

You can find out more information about the project and sign up for email updates at  http://www.sfpublicworks.org/upper-haight.

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By Bruce Wolfe, HANC Vice-President

San Francisco’s District 1 Supervisor, Sandra Lee Fewer, started a movement with interest and the advent of the first community-owned residential property in her district that prevented evictions. SF Community Land Trust (SFCLT) purchased a multi-unit building on Fulton Street that would have displaced many renters who are seniors and persons with disabilities, and provided them with lifetime leases under their current rents, perpetuating the trend towards “forever homes” and aging-in-place; a much needed convention in our current world of living longer and healthier. Plus with an overbearing, inflated real estate market that seeks to empty buildings for unscrupulous developers and speculators this out-of-the-box solution will solidly help.

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