Comments on: Can HOPE and Opportunity Spark a Human Revolution in Public Housing? http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/06/27/can-hope-and-opportunity-spark-a-human-revolution-in-public-housing/ Join the Debate! Read and comment on articles posted on actlocallysf.org. Fri, 16 May 2008 08:04:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: lik roper http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/06/27/can-hope-and-opportunity-spark-a-human-revolution-in-public-housing/#comment-684 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:02:03 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/06/27/can-hope-and-opportunity-spark-a-human-revolution-in-public-housing/#comment-684 Opportunity knocks, but i believe HOPE has gone AWOL as of late - www.likroper.com<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 10</li> </ul> Opportunity knocks, but i believe HOPE has gone AWOL as of late - www.likroper.com
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]]> by: Sean Smith http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/06/27/can-hope-and-opportunity-spark-a-human-revolution-in-public-housing/#comment-675 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:29:32 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/06/27/can-hope-and-opportunity-spark-a-human-revolution-in-public-housing/#comment-675 Quoting article: "Can changes in buildings and land use make a significant positive impact on people living in public housing?" I didn't know "impact" was a verb. "Effect" would be much better in this instance.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> Quoting article:
“Can changes in buildings and land use make a significant positive impact on people living in public housing?”

I didn’t know “impact” was a verb. “Effect” would be much better in this instance.

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]]> by: loharob http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/06/27/can-hope-and-opportunity-spark-a-human-revolution-in-public-housing/#comment-667 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:38:53 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/06/27/can-hope-and-opportunity-spark-a-human-revolution-in-public-housing/#comment-667 Gavin is mishandling the public housing we own, or, more accurately, not doing a thing. I think the mixing of housing is a great idea, but the mayor refuses to hold the SFHA's feet to the fire and get the tenants to abide by their lease agreements. Neighbors are asking Greg Fortner to evict the drug dealers and violent felons, and nothing is done. The mayor does nothing, even though most of the rash of murders have happened in or adjacent to city-owned housing. HUD declared SFHA a disaster and appointed former Mayor Agnos to manage temporarily, but Gavin has been spending tens of thousands of our tax dollars to appeal the ruling, even though lives are being lost because SFHA is disfunctional. I also want to echo Pamela Fitzgerald above: Why are ALL the districts not required to have public housing? Why further ghettoize poor people?<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> Gavin is mishandling the public housing we own, or, more accurately, not doing a thing. I think the mixing of housing is a great idea, but the mayor refuses to hold the SFHA’s feet to the fire and get the tenants to abide by their lease agreements. Neighbors are asking Greg Fortner to evict the drug dealers and violent felons, and nothing is done. The mayor does nothing, even though most of the rash of murders have happened in or adjacent to city-owned housing.
HUD declared SFHA a disaster and appointed former Mayor Agnos to manage temporarily, but Gavin has been spending tens of thousands of our tax dollars to appeal the ruling, even though lives are being lost because SFHA is disfunctional.

I also want to echo Pamela Fitzgerald above: Why are ALL the districts not required to have public housing? Why further ghettoize poor people?

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]]> by: james a http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/06/27/can-hope-and-opportunity-spark-a-human-revolution-in-public-housing/#comment-665 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:45:16 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/06/27/can-hope-and-opportunity-spark-a-human-revolution-in-public-housing/#comment-665 i watched something on the history channel or something similar recently about singapore and found one fact to be quite interesting about affordable housing. they deciding long ago that it did not make sense to build housing for renters since they would inevitably fall into states of disrepair. they chose instead to subsidize loans for folks of moderate income to buy those same places, condo's instead of apartments, and then watched their theory evolve into reality wherein everyone took part in the free enterprise market based economy, the buildings never went into states of disrepair since people owned their units. something i really like about his program too. good work gavin!<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> i watched something on the history channel or something similar recently about singapore and found one fact to be quite interesting about affordable housing. they deciding long ago that it did not make sense to build housing for renters since they would inevitably fall into states of disrepair. they chose instead to subsidize loans for folks of moderate income to buy those same places, condo’s instead of apartments, and then watched their theory evolve into reality wherein everyone took part in the free enterprise market based economy, the buildings never went into states of disrepair since people owned their units.

something i really like about his program too.

good work gavin!

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]]> by: Pamela Jane Fitzgerald http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/06/27/can-hope-and-opportunity-spark-a-human-revolution-in-public-housing/#comment-664 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:53:08 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/06/27/can-hope-and-opportunity-spark-a-human-revolution-in-public-housing/#comment-664 My question is are the affordable housing units going to be distributed around the SF area in an equitable fashion as opposed to just being in targeted areas that I would never want to actually live in due to crime and other problems? I would love to be able to purchase something in my price range and I believe that affordable housing needs to be all over SF and not just in housing projects. I live in a nice neighborhood close to St. Francis and West Portal...I would like to afford that area...or do I have to buy in a crime ridden area to be able to afford!<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> My question is are the affordable housing units going to be distributed around the SF area in an equitable fashion as opposed to just being in targeted areas that I would never want to actually live in due to crime and other problems?

I would love to be able to purchase something in my price range and I believe that affordable housing needs to be all over SF and not just in housing projects. I live in a nice neighborhood close to St. Francis and West Portal…I would like to afford that area…or do I have to buy in a crime ridden area to be able to afford!

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