PUBLIC HOUSING - Revision history

Ccarlsson at 06:43, 9 June 2025

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	'''Alan Carlos Hernandez's mother in 1963 at the Bernal Dwellings.'''		'''Alan Carlos Hernandez's mother in 1963 at the Bernal Dwellings.'''

Ccarlsson at 06:42, 9 June 2025

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	'''Alan Carlos Hernandez's mother in 1963 at the Bernal Dwellings.'''		'''Alan Carlos Hernandez's mother in 1963 at the Bernal Dwellings.'''

Ccarlsson at 06:42, 9 June 2025

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			[[Image:Alan-Carlos-Hernandez-mother-in-1963-at-Bernal-Dwellings.jpg]]

			'''Alan Carlos Hernandez's mother in 1963 at the Bernal Dwellings.'''

			''Photo: SFMemory''

	[[Image:Bernal-dwellings-after-reconstruction 20211007 003702256.jpg]]		[[Image:Bernal-dwellings-after-reconstruction 20211007 003702256.jpg]]

Ccarlsson: added photos and links

2025-02-12T07:26:28Z

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			[[Image:Valencia-Gardens-August-1964 AAD-6124.jpg]]

			'''Valencia Gardens, August 1964.'''

			''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, AAD-6124''

	The 1937 U.S. Housing Act provided the necessary institutional and financial background whereby cities would fulfill the role of steward and guardian to projects financed by a federal government comparatively beneficial in welfare funds. 1938 was the year that San Francisco, along with all other major cities, established its own municipal housing authority. The decentralization of administration, leaving stewardship in the hands of local agencies has meant that public officials must contend with the pressures of meaningful constituencies to determine whether to build and where to locate the housing. As a result, none of San Francisco's projects are found in moderate or affluent neighborhoods.		The 1937 U.S. Housing Act provided the necessary institutional and financial background whereby cities would fulfill the role of steward and guardian to projects financed by a federal government comparatively beneficial in welfare funds. 1938 was the year that San Francisco, along with all other major cities, established its own municipal housing authority. The decentralization of administration, leaving stewardship in the hands of local agencies has meant that public officials must contend with the pressures of meaningful constituencies to determine whether to build and where to locate the housing. As a result, none of San Francisco's projects are found in moderate or affluent neighborhoods.

	Within its first year nationally renowned architects had completed plans for five unique housing designs, each slated for very different parts of the city. Work began quickly on three of the projects, the most prominent of which was Holly Courts, located on the southern side of Bernal Heights between Holly park and Mission. Designed by Arthur Brown Jr. , also the designer of Coit ~~tower~~, the project called for 118 units fronted on the street, surrounding an interior of landscaped courts and play spaces. Simultaneously work was started on Potrero Terrace on the south side of Potrero Hill and at Valencia Gardens in the Mission. The characteristically liberal design models of early public housing represent attempts at social engineering that have since lost their validity.		[[Image:Holly-Court-March-1940 AAA-9936.jpg]]

			'''Holly Courts under construction on west slope of Bernal Heights, March 1940.'''

			''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, AAA-9936''

			Within its first year nationally renowned architects had completed plans for five unique housing designs, each slated for very different parts of the city. Work began quickly on three of the projects, the most prominent of which was Holly Courts, located on the southern side of Bernal Heights between Holly park and Mission. Designed by Arthur Brown Jr., also the designer of [[Coit Tower\|Coit Tower]], the project called for 118 units fronted on the street, surrounding an interior of landscaped courts and play spaces. Simultaneously work was started on Potrero Terrace on the south side of Potrero Hill and at Valencia Gardens in the Mission. The characteristically liberal design models of early public housing represent attempts at social engineering that have since lost their validity.

	[[Image:Construction of Potrero Terraces 1941 AAD-6094.jpg]]		[[Image:Construction of Potrero Terraces 1941 AAD-6094.jpg]]
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	''Photo: "We Grew Up in San Francisco" Facebook group''		''Photo: "We Grew Up in San Francisco" Facebook group''

			[[Image:Pothill-public-housing-2014 3666.jpg]]

			'''Potrero Hill public housing face east, 2014.'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2vTtK1F9nYw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>		<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2vTtK1F9nYw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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	'''Bernal Dwelling at Folsom/Cesar Chavez/Harrison, here in 1996, rebuilt in the 2000s.'''		'''Bernal Dwelling at Folsom/Cesar Chavez/Harrison, here in 1996, rebuilt in the 2000s.'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

			[[Image:Bernal-dwellings-after-reconstruction 20211007 003702256.jpg]]

			'''Bernal Dwellings as seen from Bernal Heights, 2021.'''

	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

Ccarlsson: photo added

2025-02-12T07:14:17Z

photo added

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	'''Ping Yuen Public Housing, 1999.'''		'''Ping Yuen Public Housing, 1999.'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

			[[Image:Ping-Yuen-projects-w-bus-and-waymo 20250104 215259700.jpg]]

			'''Ping Yuen, 2025, with a MUNI bus an a Waymo robo-car passing along Stockton Street.'''

	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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	[[Public Housing Comes Full Circle \| Prev. Document]] [[The Goodman Building \| Next Document]]		[[Public Housing Comes Full Circle \| Prev. Document]] [[The Goodman Building \| Next Document]]

	[[category:housing]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:redevelopment]] [[category:Mission]] [[category:Potrero Hill]] [[category:Chinatown]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:racism]] [[category:Excelsior]] [[category:Visitacion Valley]] [[category:1940s]] [[category:1950s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]]		[[category:housing]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:redevelopment]] [[category:Mission]] [[category:Potrero Hill]] [[category:Chinatown]] [[category:Richmond District]] [[category:racism]] [[category:Excelsior]] [[category:Visitacion Valley]] [[category:1940s]] [[category:1950s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2020s]]

Ccarlsson: added video on Potrero Hill and Public Housing

2018-07-03T16:32:22Z

added video on Potrero Hill and Public Housing

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	''Photo: "We Grew Up in San Francisco" Facebook group''		''Photo: "We Grew Up in San Francisco" Facebook group''

			<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2vTtK1F9nYw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

			'''Public Housing & Potrero Hill'''

			''Video: courtesy Potrero Hill Archives Project''

	Although widely used in European cities throughout the 20th century, publicly funded housing did not seriously penetrate the U.S. landscape until the Great Depression. An effort to create better and cheaper housing, the first subsidized housing program of 1937 wasn't enacted until it could be coupled economically with the more pressing objective of reducing unemployment and thus stabilizing the economy. Beyond simple trends in the housing industry, the factor that has contributed most to the design and site locations of public housing projects has been the aggressive resistance of private interests. Even though public ownership is an anomaly in the U.S. economic system, it inevitably affects the housing market. Private industry has ostracized the projects both physically and financially in order to minimize their effect. Early concessions to the private housing industry include provisions requiring "equivalent elimination" of "substandard" units for each new unit of public housing. This way no fluctuations in surplus would be caused. It was also urged that public housing be clearly differentiated from the rest of the housing stock, leading in later years to typically austere and monolithic structures.		Although widely used in European cities throughout the 20th century, publicly funded housing did not seriously penetrate the U.S. landscape until the Great Depression. An effort to create better and cheaper housing, the first subsidized housing program of 1937 wasn't enacted until it could be coupled economically with the more pressing objective of reducing unemployment and thus stabilizing the economy. Beyond simple trends in the housing industry, the factor that has contributed most to the design and site locations of public housing projects has been the aggressive resistance of private interests. Even though public ownership is an anomaly in the U.S. economic system, it inevitably affects the housing market. Private industry has ostracized the projects both physically and financially in order to minimize their effect. Early concessions to the private housing industry include provisions requiring "equivalent elimination" of "substandard" units for each new unit of public housing. This way no fluctuations in surplus would be caused. It was also urged that public housing be clearly differentiated from the rest of the housing stock, leading in later years to typically austere and monolithic structures.

Lisaruth: changed category from Richmond to Richmond District

2014-08-28T06:25:25Z

changed category from Richmond to Richmond District

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Ccarlsson: changing neighborhood to Excelsior only

2014-07-12T19:58:06Z

changing neighborhood to Excelsior only

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	[[category:housing]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:redevelopment]] [[category:Mission]] [[category:Potrero Hill]] [[category:Chinatown]] [[category:Richmond]] [[category:racism]] [[category:Excelsior/Visitacion Valley]] [[category:1940s]] [[category:1950s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]]		[[category:housing]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:redevelopment]] [[category:Mission]] [[category:Potrero Hill]] [[category:Chinatown]] [[category:Richmond]] [[category:racism]] [[category:Excelsior]] [[category:Visitacion Valley]] [[category:1940s]] [[category:1950s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]]

Ccarlsson: added new photo

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	''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''		''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''

	[[Image:Potrero Hill housing projects 1943 462226 457939734269745 1643118275 o.jpg]]		[[Image:Potrero Hill housing projects 1943 462226 457939734269745 1643118275 o.jpg\|720px\|thumb]]

	'''Potrero Terraces, 1943, looking north/northwest. You can see [[Post WWII Demise\|Seals Stadium]] in the background middle.'''		'''Potrero Terraces, 1943, looking north/northwest. You can see [[Post WWII Demise\|Seals Stadium]] in the background middle.'''