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It was only a few weeks ago when Mayor Alioto proudly unveiled a model of what Hunters Point Bayview will eventually look like after urban renewal takes place. However, today, a group of citizens from this community, concerned citizens gathered at Hunter's Point because of a report from

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the saN Francisco housing Authority which now owns and manages the project that it would not go along with this and wanted to sell the property to private speculators. The meeting was chaired by the reverend Charles lee of the Ridge Point methodist church. I mean, I but

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you anything that you can because if you don't stop people from continuing to pushing you, they're gonna push you and push you about it and you're gonna have to send the mayor out of soda with his fast talking self, you're gonna have to Saturn venus Kane

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with his publicize himself, you're gonna have to say it to Justin Herman with this negro urban renewal manipulate himself, that we no longer will be used as a political football, are we no longer will be used as you see fit to use us for? We're going

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to stand up and be counted if it becomes necessary to lay our bodies and our blood on this man that we're going to stay here at Hunter's Point, until you decide to give us some decent housing here for these people who are already here to live

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in this afternoon. Mayor Alioto had this to say about the Hunters Point Bayview urban renewal program, redevelopment of Hunters Point is not threatened and we'll move ahead very, very rapidly. Uh, the housing authority has informed me that it will not interfere with the redevelopment plan as

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we have announced it. Uh, they simply want to make certain that whatever title they have in that property is not going to be given over to any speculators until they've had an opportunity to look at it. That's all it gets down to the redevelopment plans as

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we have announced them are going ahead. And it was unfortunate that those folks whose very fine people in Hunter's Point, who helped us conceive this plan, we're going to help us carry out this plan. It's unfortunate they were upset by a complete misunderstanding, as I said

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before, and then I didn't originate the expression much ado about nothing wrong. Too many observers. This whole controversy seems to be the end product of a longtime feud between the SAn Francisco Housing Authority and the SAN Francisco redevelopment agency. And the people here at Hunter's Point

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are the ones caught in the middle. Well, today, they made it very clear they don't intend to have this position, nor does the mayor intend for them to have this position rollin post for eyewitness News at Hunter's Point.