[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: "After decades of environmental cleanup, rebuilding can cement inequalities" at Hunters Point (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

After decades of environmental cleanup, rebuilding can cement inequalities
As the Superfund process crawls forward at a former naval base, is a historically Black neighborhood of San Francisco being gentrified away?
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By Allie Skalnik
& The West (Stanford,CA)
April 30, 2026

Thomas Lin was born and raised in San Francisco, but when he and his wife began looking to stop renting and finally own a home, their options were few and far between, leading them to consider a townhome in one of the city’s most affordable neighborhoods: Bayview-Hunters Point. 

They would otherwise be priced out of the city he was born and raised in.

It wasn’t until Lin and his wife went to their bank to get a loan for their prospective home they hit a snag. Their bank refused to offer a mortgage because of the “environmental issues” in the area. This was the first they had heard of the nuclear and industrial contamination brought by the Navy decades before and the sometimes feckless cleanups.

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In Bayview-Hunters Point, plenty of young people are also willing to take the risk. Although many older Black residents do own their homes, many of these same residents who lived with the hazards of the neighborhood for generations are now being displaced as the area becomes more affluent.

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For the entire article, see
https://andthewest.stanford.edu/2026/after-decades-of-environmental-cleanup-rebuilding-can-cement-inequalities/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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