Coalition reaches historic benefits agreement with developer

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From: "PICO National Network" <news at piconetwork.org>

Friday, May 30, 2008

Coalition reaches historic benefits agreement with developer

After months of negotiations, PICO affiliate San Francisco
Organizing Project (SFOP), together with ACORN and the San
Francisco Labor Council, reached a historic community benefits
agreement last week with the Lennar Corporation, the developer
of the Bayview-Hunter's Point Shipyard.

For the first time in San Francisco history, an alliance of
community and labor groups worked together to secure a binding
agreement from a private developer to include an extensive list
of benefits as part of a major redevelopment project. With a
commitment to build over 3,500 units of affordable housing - 32
percent of the 10,000 housing units in the project - the
agreement also sets a record in San Francisco for the largest
percentage of affordable housing units for any development in
the city's history.

Read more about this historic agreement at
http://ga3.org/ct/td_svVd17Ev3/