THE PRICE OF BEING POOR – PART 7
“Built on Promises, Standing on Questions: What Is Really Happening Inside Alice Griffith Apartments?”A MALIK WASHINGTON INVESTIGATION Photo Credits:Bottom: https://www.kqed.org/news/38840/feds-award-30m-to-remake-sf-housing-projectTop: https://tyrafennell.wordpress.com/tag/double-rock/Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Kg077PO80 background The land was studied. The risks were known. The mitigation was required. So why are residents now asking whether the system designed to protect them is failing in real time? THE BODIES […]
THE PRICE OF BEING POOR — PART 6: The Legal Reckoning Begins
SAN FRANCISCO — It lasted one hour on Friday, April 10, 2026, but the impact may last much longer. In a tightly focused, one-hour virtual meeting moderated by this journalist, tenants from across San Francisco delivered direct testimony to Special Assistant Attorney General Alex Fisch of the California Department of Justice. What unfolded was not […]
THE PRICE OF BEING POOR — PART 3: Silence Is a Choice
The Case Against City Attorney David Chiu and Mayor Daniel Lurie A Special Investigation by Journalist Malik WashingtonDestination Freedom Media Group & The Davis Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO — Let me be direct. This is not a matter of policy disagreement. This is a matter of enforceable law, documented violations, and the deliberate non-use of government […]
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 II
The Complaint Against San Francisco, the Truth It Tries to Bury, and a Call for Unity With Mayor Daniel Lurie In Part I, I explained why San Francisco’s harm against Black residents was not abstract, not accidental, and not “societal.” It was municipal. It was deliberate. It was enforced by policy. Part II must confront […]
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 […]