Unpacking the steep economic hurdles facing Bayview-Hunters Point legacy residents as City Hall pushes a “Right to Return.
When outsiders picture San Francisco, they see the Golden Gate or tech towers. They don’t see the steep, fog-swept hills of Hunters Point, where generations of Black families built the city’s cultural bedrock. Now, Mayor Daniel Lurie’s administration is pitching a massive civic comeback to welcome legacy residents home. But as the scaffolding goes up, a brutal mathematical reality remains: In a city warped by tech wealth, can the people who built Harbor Road actually afford the return?
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