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 […]
FUND THE OVERSIGHT — OR ANSWER THE QUESTION
Part 2 of San Francisco’s 23-Year Reckoning Photo Credits:Top left: https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/bayview-hunters.htmlTop right: https://www.canwelive.org/environmental-justiceBottom left: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/environmental-law-clinic/lawsuit-filed-over-radioactive-waste-at-hunters-point-naval-shipyard/Bottom right: https://extinctionrebellionsfbay.org/announcements/2022/04/ally-event-peoples-earth-day-2022/ In Part One of this investigation, we established a documented timeline. The question before the City is not whether pollution burden exists.The question is whether oversight capacity will be strengthened — or reduced — at precisely the moment […]
“THEY KNEW”: SAN FRANCISCO’S 23-YEAR RECKONING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM IN BAYVIEW–HUNTERS POINT
How environmental racism was formally acknowledged — and why oversight now matters more than ever Photo Credit: Hunters Point Shipyard Art Gallery, 451 Galvez, San Francisco, California 94124 EDITOR’S NOTEThis is the first of a two-part investigation into environmental racism in San Francisco’s Bayview–Hunters Point neighborhood, the documented history of contamination and health disparities, and […]
**REPARATIONS ON TRIAL:
Part 1: San Francisco’s Debt, America’s Fear, and the Lie of “Societal Discrimination”** Photo credits: Newly unearthed trove of photographs shows the Fillmore’s devastation in stunning detail https://sfstandard.com/2024/02/29/san-francisco-fillmore-destruction-documented/ (top left) The Rise & Fall of the “Harlem of the West” https://bishopsf.org/blog/remembering-the-harlem-of-the-west (top right and bottom) San Francisco likes to describe itself as a city of […]
WHEN SPEAKING BECOMES THE VIOLATION: HOW RELATED APPEARS TO RETALIATE AGAINST A TENANT ADVOCATE—AND WHY SAN FRANCISCO MUST NOT LOOK AWAY DURING SUPER BOWL LX
By Malik Washington – Destination Freedom Media Group | Davis Vanguard Retaliation rarely announces itself with a raised fist. It arrives quietly—wrapped in “process,” sanitized by bureaucracy, and justified by paperwork. It comes as an email framed as concern. A security report elevated without verification. A lease violation taped to a tenant’s door. This is […]
**OPEN LETTER TO CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL ROB BONTA:WHEN SLUMLORDS ARE REWARDED AND TENANTS ARE ABANDONED**
Attorney General Rob Bonta, This is not a sudden crisis. It is a documented one. For decades, tenants in San Francisco’s most historically Black and working-class neighborhoods—the Fillmore, Bayview–Hunters Point, Sunnydale, and beyond—have endured unsafe housing conditions, prolonged neglect, and retaliation after speaking out, while the City of San Francisco continues to do business with […]
WHEN POWER IS PROTECTED AND THE DOORS STAY CLOSED
Part I: Tenants, Trauma, and the Conditions Inside Bayview Housing By Journalist Malik WashingtonDestination Freedom Media Group & The Davis Vanguard Photo credit (Lurie) https://sfbayview.com/2025/08/hunters-point-residents-come-home-after-renovations/ations (caption): Mayor Daniel Lurie, Chief of Community Affairs EJ Jones, hilltop residents and multiple representatives from Housing Rights Committee tour Related Companies complexes Tuesday afternoon. Bayview–Hunters Point has never lacked […]
SAN FRANCISCO GATEWAY, PART I
INCLUSION WITHOUT OWNERSHIP: WHY A BILLION-DOLLAR PROJECT IN HISTORIC BAYVIEW–HUNTERS POINT HAS ROOM FOR BLACK LABOR—BUT NOT BLACK DEVELOPERS By Journalist Malik WashingtonDestination Freedom Media Group & The Davis Vanguard In San Francisco, redevelopment in Black neighborhoods has learned to speak the language of equity fluently. Local contractors are hired. Workforce pipelines are announced. Community […]