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Air district votes to fine Lennar
“How can you trust a criminal to preside over their own trial? We already know that the people who are supposed to be watching out for the health and safety of the community are paid contractors with the Lennar Corp."
The abandonment of precaution: A 10-year analysis of health outcomes in Bayview Hunters Point
Sup. Maxwell reduced the seating on the Asthma Task Force this year as she champions three development projects: the Hunters Point Shipyard, Home Depot and the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Project Area, all documenting negative unmitigable impacts to human health and the environment.
Federal court shuts down major Hunters Point Shipyard polluter
“The Navy allowed its last tenant, the Triple A Shipyard, to willfully
pollute Dry Dock 4 and the Hunters Point Shipyard for 10 years.”
Polluter pays!
The 94124 zipcode ranks in the 80th percentile for particulates, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds. It ranks in the 90th percentile for sulfur dioxide.
‘Master Developer’ is plantation mentality
We won’t stir up toxic dust as Lennar has that measurably poisons our children. We know the Shipyard is still not fit for human habitation. We’re not stupid.
SF School Board calls on City to halt Hunters Point development
The resolution does not compel any action but calls upon the city to halt construction, order health assessments and communicate these reports to the district and the public.
‘No one should be comfortable when the community is dying’
“We’re asking for a temporary shut down of the construction at the shipyard, so we can access the levels of exposure from arsenic and lead. And we can’t trust the Health Department under Mitchell Katz to do it.”
Subprime mortgage crisis causing greatest loss of African-American wealth in modern U.S. history
The subprime mortgage crisis will cause African-Americans to experience wealth losses of between $71 billion and $122 billion over its duration.
Congressmembers Frank and Waters call for halt on public housing demolition
‘Over 60 percent of public housing units
demolished or disposed never come back online,’ they tell HUD
by Matthew Cardinale
Atlanta (APN) – U.S. Reps. Barney
Frank, D-Mass., and Maxine Waters, D-Calif., have written a letter to the...
All of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard must be cleaned to residential standards
The United States Navy has spent over $600 million trying to clean up the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Most of the money was wasted - more then $300 million by International Technologies - with little supervision by the United States Navy Base Closure Team in past years.
The sinking Titanic
Like a colossal ship navigating through the uncharted ocean of financial uncertainty, the Miami homebuilder Lennar Corp. is a “sinking Titanic.”
As court considers BVHP referendum, Lennar plows ahead
“My son is sick and my grandchildren are sick. I could hope that someone would have said ‘Hold it.’ We know that there is environmental racism.”
The Liars’ Club, Pt. I
On Friday, Sept. 21, 2007, Mayor Gavin Newsom claimed “the CDC and the California Department of Public Health agree with the San Francisco Department of Public Health that there was no significant health risk created by the grading activities at the shipyard.”
BVHP fights dirty transfer, development of HP Shipyard
“There’s asbestos everywhere on the base …” – Wayne Lee, inspector, Bay Area Air Quality Management District
‘Banished’: How West Oakland and Hunters Point are fighting that fate
He stressed the need for people to buy property collectively and develop plans that would work as safety nets when people can’t afford to pay their mortgages.
‘Banished’: an interview wit’ filmmaker Marco Williams
I have a body of work that really looks at race relations and the dynamics of race – the pains, the problems and the frustrations between Black and white Amerikkkans – and in this one I thought that there was a possibility to look at perspective solutions.
SF Public Utilities Commission cancels power plant contract
The City should no longer consider “an investment of this size” in fossil fuel-burning power.
Lennar asks feds for help
With San Francisco having climbed deeper into bed with Lennar thanks to Prop. G's passage, the bad news coming from Wall Street and beyond can't exactly be music to Mayor Gavin Newsom's ears.
Environmental organizations and residents warn against consequences of Lennar’s ‘Prop Greed’
“People need to know about Proposition G’s environmental consequences. This is a ploy to pave parks for profits.”