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Solicitations and Bids. Belmont Housing Authority. Our Agency. About Us. In the Media. Resident Services. The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, pressured by a coalition of the tourism industry elite, large corporations, financial institutions, other downtown business leaders, and City Hall put into motion the Yerba Buena Redevelopment Project.
At the time the site contained more than 4, S. Influence on it, however, is legal and desirable for the health of the city.
The Yerba Buena plan called for acquiring and demolishing the S. It was approved unanimously by the planning commission and by a vote at the Board of Supervisors in In the face of these powerful forces, community members marshaled opposition.
Through lawsuits, lobbying and advocacy T. Importantly they were able to achieve a settlement that led to the production of approximately 1, low-income housing units as replacement for demolished S.
Hartman, pg Perhaps the most significant victory that arose from the organizing of the I-hotel and T. Organizing pressure compelled the Board of Supervisors to pass this law which banned demolition and conversion of S. Continued community activism led to the strengthening of the ordinance in as the Board of Supervisors increased the amount of the fee and gave neighborhood nonprofits legal standing to enforce it.
In three corporations proposed to construct three 3 luxury hotel towers with more than 2, tourist rooms, in the largely S. The Luxury Hotel Task Force saw the three 3 tourist hotels as an immediate threat, but also as the tip of a much larger iceberg. The out-of-character heights proposed for the tourist hotel developments were legal according zoning regulations, so Manhattinization could conceivably proceed unchecked.
To confront these manifold threats the tenants organized with the short-term goal of community mitigation from the tourist hotel developers, and a long-term goal of down-zoning the neighborhood to head off future fights of the same nature.
Shaw, p. Having achieved the first part of their agenda, N. Tenants and activists circulated petitions and pressured city government to rezone the neighborhood to prohibit new tourist hotels and put in place height restrictions of eight to thirteen stories.
Their work paid off with rezoning signed into law on March 28, Shaw, pg. Once again many people including those on fixed incomes, seniors, couples and families were forced out of apartments and into S.
Market prices for an S. Sources: Tenderloin Housing Clinic Modified Payment Program The overall lack of affordable housing created a sense of desperation and people were forced to put up with appalling conditions, while paying extremely high percentages of their income for their unit.
Many others took advantage of the housing crisis to reap higher profits by neglecting routine maintenance and repairs. In the face of this latest crisis, tenants and activists founded the Central City S.
Collaborative in The S. Collaborative is a partnership of S. In forming the Collaborative, members set out to organize with S. The organizing model grew out of the experience and success of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic with more than 20 years providing free legal services to, advocating for, and organizing with low-income tenants in the Tenderloin and South of Market.
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