A Tale of Two Standards

Lurie’s Cleanliness Crackdown on Nonprofits — While Publicly Subsidized Housing Tenants Keep Living With Sewage, Garbage, Mold, Broken Elevators, and Rats!! Special Investigative Commentary San Francisco is preparing to hold hundreds of City-funded service providers to a new neighborhood-cleanliness standard. The question is whether City Hall will show the same urgency and accountability when low-income […]

“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 […]