Bayview Affordable Housing Initiative Works to Collect SignaturesPaul Hogarthbyline‚ Jan. 31‚ 2008With the deadline to qualify in a mere four days, affordable housing activists are feverishly working to collect 7,168 signatures to put the Bayview Affordable Housing Initiative on the June ballot. As the Florida-based Lennar Corporation – with active funding from allies in the Newsom Administration – spends a fortune to qualify its Bayview initiative on the same ballot, a rag-tag army led by Supervisor Chris Daly is hoping to force a real dialogue on the future of Bayview-Hunters Point. Do we want another giveaway to Lennar under the auspices of keeping the 49ers in San Francisco, or do we want the new housing that gets built to be affordable for current residents of the neighborhood? |