By Margaret Hetherwick : sfexaminer – excerpt (includes audio and graphics)
San Francisco’s Native American community has been waiting on a planned housing development for years — and now, thanks to former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, it’s on its way.
One of Pelosi’s last acts as speaker was securing $750,000 for a cutting-edge, six-story housing development in the Mission District of San Francisco called “The Village SF.”
The project is the brainchild of Friendship House, a nonprofit for Native Americans living in urban areas. It will be constructed right across the street from the Friendship House office on Julian Ave, near the 16th Street BART station and is set to break ground this year and be completed by 2025…(more)