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Yeah, for several months now, the san Francisco public housing authority has been under increasing fire by a small group of dissatisfied tenants who feel that their buildings should be better maintained. Now we've covered that issue on the news several times and heard their grievances. However, one

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story which has not been told is the story of increasing vandalism throughout the entire public housing system of san Francisco especially centered here at Hunter's Point. The public housing authority in fact released figures the other day, estimating that they spend $80,000 per year merely repairing broken

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windows. But that's nothing compared to the more serious vandalism which has been going on for some time here. At Hunter's Point. This is angry Crewson, he's the manager of the permanent housing area at Hunter's Point and he's going to show us some typical apartments which have

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been vandalized. Mhm. Okay. Right. This is a typical example of what has been happening to many of the dwelling units in Hunter's Point in particular on General Avenues. An excellent example of what has happened to an apartment. Here's a refrigerator that's been tipped over. Uh, the

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insides have been torn apart, motors have been removed. This is typical of many of our vacant apartments. There's a very good example of what has happened to a stove. Uh Total loss as you can well see the installation has been torn apart. The all of the

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mechanism that make them a stove operate has been removed. This is another example of what vandalism has done to many of the dwelling units. And hunters point as you will notice jerry almost immediately after tenants have vacated the unit. All windows are broken. Uh As you

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can see, this creates a very hazardous condition. We've also placed boards over these minutes to uh eliminate any possibility of someone being injured, but it's plain to see that they have been ripped apart. This situation has been going on for several years now and it has,

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as I stated, reached its peak last summer. But uh, however, there is still a great deal of vandalism and what has it done. And it's created inconvenience for many of the prospective tenants. We have people who are in dire need of public housing when they come

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out to a lease an apartment, we find that there has been extensive damage. This damage cannot be repaired by our maintenance department. This is generally work that would have to be done by contractors and sometimes energy, thousands of dollars. So it does create inconvenience for a

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new tenant, keeps them out. It means that we uh certainly are affected because it affects the lives of the other tenants who live in the apartment building and also the other type of apartment that we have. I feel that parents who are in the community should

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be somewhat responsible for the actions of the those few individuals that are responsible for this extensive damage. So because of the irresponsible actions of a handful of people, both in the temporary and permanent housing areas of Hunters Point 28 of the permanent hunters point housing units

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have been damaged severely by sheer vandalism, to a total cost to the people of San Francisco of $38,000.