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<h1 align="center">Pelosi, Feinstein, Newsom announce federal funding<br>
for Hunters Point shipyard cleanup</h1>
<h2 align="center">Newsom says redevelopment will not result in
gentrification</h2>
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator
Dianne Feinstein today announced $82 million in federal funding for the
toxic clean up<br>
of the Hunters Point Shipyard superfund site.<br>
<b>Photos by <a
href="http://www.fogcityjournal.com/profiles/profile_luke_thomas.shtml">Luke
Thomas</a></b></p>
<p><b>By <a
href="http://www.fogcityjournal.com/profiles/profile_luke_thomas.shtml">Luke
Thomas</a></b></p>
<h3>January 3, 2008</h3>
<p> Joined by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Dianne Feinsten, Mayor
Gavin Newsom today announced $82 million in federal funding for the
toxic cleanup of the Hunters Point Shipyard superfund site.</p>
<p>“This is a huge victory for San Francisco in general and the Bayview
Hunters Point Community in particular,” Newsom said. “With these funds
in hand, the City will be able to continue moving forward with its
plans to transform the long-shuttered Shipyard from a environmental
blight on the community into a world-class location providing
waterfront parks, thousands of jobs, affordable housing and a major
clean technology campus.”</p>
<p>Mayor Newsom, who made several trips to Washington D.C. in the past
year to persuade federal officials that the cleanup of the Shipyard
should be a major priority for the federal delegation, praised the work
of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Dianne Feinstein in securing the
cleanup money for the Shipyard.</p>
<p>“At a time when the Department of Defense is spending less and less
money every year cleaning up closed, toxic military bases, this level
of funding is truly remarkable,” Newsom said. “It is a testament to the
strong leadership and commitment of Speaker Pelosi and Senator
Feinstein to get the Shipyard cleaned up on time and in a manner that
will allow us to implement the community’s vision for revitalizing the
City's southeastern waterfront.”</p>
<p>The federal funds will be used to prepare over 100 acres of land at
the Shipyard for transfer to the City at no cost, including land slated
for new housing, parks and approximately 25 acres for a potential site
for a new stadium for the San Francisco 49ers.</p>
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what assurances he could provide to the Bayview Hunters Point community
to allay fears of gentrification due to redevelopment, Newsom told Fog
City Journal: "That’s why 42 percent of the work being done is being
done by local builders on Parcel A. That’s why 30 percent of all the
housing that’s being developed out here on Parcel A is affordable
housing. That’s why we’re rebuilding public housing units, one-to-one
replacement, and providing mixed-income opportunities for people at all
income levels by rebuilding public housing. That’s why we’re including
protections and provisions that are very similar for the rest of the
project."</p>
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<p>"One thing I will not do is sit back and do nothing, and continue to
see the rates of prostate cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer rise
in the southeast sector - and asthma rates - because we didn’t have the
courage to actually step up and actually get something done. And that’s
something I’m very proud that we’ve advanced," Newsom said.</p>
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"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara</pre>
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