Changing Management Gives Public Housing Tenants New Hope

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Tenants chat in front of Mission Dolores Senior Apartments on 15th Street. Photo courtesy of Mission Local.

By J. J. Barrow, Mission Local

Public housing in the city as we know it is coming to an end — that is, it will become largely nonprofit owned and operated within the next two years as part of a national rehabilitation effort. Tenants at the Mission Dolores Senior Apartments are tentatively optimistic about the change.

“Anybody would be better than the housing authority,” said Walker Dukes, a resident of the 15th Street apartment building for more than two decades.

Read the complete story at Mission Local.  

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