SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: THE PRICE OF BEING POOR
How San Francisco Rewards Corporate Landlords Who Neglect Its Most Vulnerable Residents with Multi-Million Dollar Contracts
They called it affordable housing. Tenants describe something closer to abandonment: sewage backups, boarded windows, unsafe buildings, and a system that punishes those who complain.
After months of reporting, this investigation asks why City Hall continues rewarding the very companies accused of failing San Francisco’s most vulnerable residents.
CLOSED DOOR LEGAL
How San Francisco Gives Millions to a Nonprofit That Refuses to Serve the Black Community It Claims to Represent
Part 2
SAN FRANCISCO — Virginia Jones walked into that courtroom believing someone had her back.
She is a senior citizen; a longtime resident of Bayview-Hunters Point. A woman who has lived through decades of broken promises to Black San Franciscans. And when a contractor sought payment for flooring work she says was faulty and improperly performed, she turned to Open Door Legal—the nonprofit that promised access to justice for people with nowhere else to turn.