In reply to Ed Alvarez.

Are those the restrictions you live under at your place?

I live at 15th and Mission and am skeptical about this whole thing. There should be a no drugs and alcohol policy for the site, a curfew and full time security.

In reply to Todd.

Very Insightful

In response to Robert’s comment, I’m the one who has lived on Adair since 2002, and in the surrounding Inner Mission since 1990. The reporter left out a lot of the various neighbors’ conversation and failed to research all the basic background facts. Here in our area around the corner from the 16th st. BART station, we have experienced all kinds of urban decay and everything that comes with it- crime, filth, feces!! lack of adequate services to clean the streets, timely address drug users overdosing and mentally impaired in crisis at all hours. I miss the Walgreens there at that lot!! They had to close many years ago because of rampant theft and some customers’ aggressive behavior.
Long term residents have heard it all from each Mission station police captain, D9 supervisor, PUC , DPW, etc. over 15 years of our organized group trying to engage them. Of course they made false promises. I’m skeptical about this $100k per cabin!! village but will try to be optimistic that it will be ok. I’m looking forward to the City building permanent affordable housing as they own that lot. A much better use of money.

In an article about homelessness, the phrase “living on Adair Street since 2002” is a bit ambiguous. I’m assuming that this person has a home there, but I recommend clearer language to avoid confusion.

LOL has the Mission fallen so far that “better than an old parking lot” is now the standard to which our community projects are judged?

When social housing is the only business that is allowed to build, we are on the fast track to becoming the bad part of town.

Thanks for the reporting, it is good to hear and see some of the commitments from the City and Five Keys. We in the community will need to ensure that the city and everyone holds seriously to that commitment to make the neighborhood better, and am cautiously optimistic.

The best part about this is that Five Keys is going to be running the site, not Dolores Street Community Services or Urban Alchemy. Lerma said that DSCS did not “qualify.” I wonder why the Mayor drew up the “qualifications” such that DSCS did not qualify. All of that chest puffing and thumping against residents at the December meeting was for nothing. Our corner of the North Mission really dodged two bullets with this.

Contrast what’s happening to the North Mission on this with what went down in North Beach/Chinatown with the sober living facility. Conservative mayors who will never win the Mission use our district as their free fire zone because for the past 15 years, D9 supes have been held down by the mayor with threats of cutting off funding to operations like DSCS.

Lerma asked me what I wanted. I replied “A supervisor who is not inept at politics who goes to bat for their constituents.” It is this snide contempt for residents that gives door knocker Chandler a shot at the seat.