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For our January meeting, we have invited Susan Solomon, who was elected to the City College Board of Trustees this past November and joined the Board in December, and Alan Wong, who was elected to the City College Board in November, 2020, and has been a Trustee since December, 2020.

We have asked them to address the following questions: What does the City College Board do? What are some of your plans for the coming year? What can we as the public do to help? and, What are the plans for the John Adams campus?

Bring your own questions for what we expect to be an interesting and informative discussion.

As this is our first (partially) in-person meeting since February, 2020, we have also set aside time for sharing and discussion. How have you been returning from the pandemic? What activities have you felt safe doing? What do you still refrain from doing? Or, feel free to steer the conversation in another direction: What topics would you like HANC to address in the coming year?

We look forward to seeing you, whether in person or online. Join us on January 12, and bring a friend.

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By Christin Evans, HANC Board

In the United States, private for-profit banks have evolved the products they offer and the customers they serve to maximize profits leaving significant gaps in products and services for San Francisco’s low income workers, affordable housing projects, and small businesses. While the Bay Area has a relatively large number of community banks and credit unions, these institutions lack the scale and reach to adequately meet the needs of this vastly underserved market.

The San Francisco Reinvestment Working Group convened by LAFCO (Local Agency Formation Commission) earlier this year has been writing the business plan for a public bank to seek to create the foundation for a municipal bank which has a primary goal of serving its community over the interest of profits. The Working Group, given a mandate by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors last year, has been developing a plan to use city assets currently stored in private market banks to capitalize a municipal benefit corporation or private bank within the next few years.

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By Teresa Palmer, MD - Geriatrics / Family Practice

(Attending Physician at Laguna Honda 1989-2004)

[This is a follow-up to the article in the September HANC Voice, https://www.hanc-sf.org/24-home/714-what-happened-at-laguna-honda]

Our City Attorney dropped his lawsuit defending Laguna Honda Hospital (LHH) in mid- October. In return, the Feds (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services-CMS) agreed to delay defunding LHH until November of 2023, BUT to delay required discharges and closure only until February of 2023 (with the possibility of extension for good behavior).

This delay is to give LHH time to meet Federal criteria to resume normal operations. Closure, discharges and bed cuts are still very much on the table -despite the extreme shortage of safe nursing home beds for the poor everywhere.

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By Lisa Awbrey, HANC Vice-President

On Wednesday November 16, approximately 45 local community members attended an in person meeting held at the Park branch library, hosted by the Coalition for a Complete Community at 730 Stanyan (CCC). All attendees wore masks.

The CCC’s update to the public on the development at 730 Stanyan included a timeline of events at the site over the past 5 years. In December 2017, the City negotiated the purchase of the land at 730 Stanyan for $15.5 million so that it could re-develop the parcel with the stated goal of building “100% affordable housing.” Since the purchase of the site, plans have moved in fits and starts with local residents left to wonder when construction would begin at the now vacant and blighted site; the City spends $27,000 each month to guard an empty parking lot.

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By David Woo, HANC President

Housing Element Rally On November 15th HANC joined the Race and Equity in All Planning Coalition (REP) in a rally and hearing at City Hall calling for the Citywide People’s Plan (www.repsf.org/citywide-peoples-plan) to be adopted and incorporated into the city’s Housing Element. The REP coalition (HANC is a member organization) demanded that the Housing Element, which currently focuses on market-rate housing, instead center racial and social equity and meet the needs of working class communities and communities of color by putting affordable housing first.

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