NEW: I traveled to Flint in anticipation of the 10 year anniversary of the start of the water crisis. I door knocked and spoke w/ folks at the library & local coney island spots. They all had the same response: The Flint Water Crisis is far from over.
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Newsroom news:

Thrilled to announce Michael Barba (Michael Barba) is joining the Chronicle to cover City Hall, government accountability and public safety sfchronicle.com/about/newsroom…

🧵Since the pandemic, social media has been flooded w/ influencers calling on Black folks to visit and permanently move to Mexico -- and thousands of Black folks have.

Last month, I spent a few weeks in the country to talk to folks about their experience.
capitalbnews.org/how-black-amer…

Half of the infrastructure projects created through Biden’s climate plan have been allocated to the expansion of highways, displacing residents, stunting homeownership chances, and leaving Black people overexposed to pollution.
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So unbelievably proud of Will Jarrett ! Check this story out now :)

for the nytimes i wrote about how pollution has destroyed Black communities in the Midwest & North, & why we can’t let that happen again as Black folks move to Southern cities in record numbers

nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opi…

One of the strangest local politics stories I’ve ever read. A major political outreach campaign (and press conference!) over a rap video with 11,000 views…and a non-apology wrapped in a conspiracy.

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Dan Kalb — a lefty Jewish Oakland Councilmember — was disinvited from speaking to a UC Berkeley class b/c he supports Israel’s existence, condemned Hamas for 10/7 & associated with several Jewish orgs.

UC Berkeley responded well but boy does this highlight deep issues on campus.

A Palestinian student was expelled from a Florida high school after his mother made pro-Palestinian posts on social media

cnn.com/2023/12/15/us/…

My 2023 year-in-review:

Hey! Mission Local offers you its work for free, but it ain't free to make. Please consider supporting us.

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Since Aug 2022, I’ve traveled 10k miles across the US mapping out today’s Great Black migration. Today, the last stories come out based on dozens of convos w/ new Southerners, the only region where more Black people are moving to than from. capitalbnews.org/black-migratio…

A supervisor wants to make it easier for tenants to sue a landlord who has created life-endangering conditions in their home.

For households with children, a senior, or a person with a disability, the proposal asks for triple damages. Via Annika Hom
missionlocal.org/2023/12/lawsui…

Supe wants to make suing landlords for substandard housing easier missionlocal.org/2023/12/lawsui… via Mission Local

🚨Scoop: For 2nd time in 5 years, a massive retesting effort has turned up radioactive objects at #SanFrancisco 's former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, in areas that were already swept of contamination & earmarked for redevelopment years ago. San Francisco Chronicle

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Absolutely loved this love letter to the perenially underappreciated Excelsior neighborhood in San Francisco by 🌻 Julie Zigoris - she/her 🌻. In my opinion one of the realest parts of the city!

Link here 👇
sfstandard.com/2023/12/07/san…

BREAKING: At least 350 units of affordable housing are closer to being built at 16th and Mission.

Mission Housing and MEDA to develop the massive project, which formerly unhoused individuals and families can call home as early as 2028. Annika Hom
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Following a decade-long fight, at least 350 affordable housing units will go up at 16th and Mission.

Today the city tapped Mission Housing and MEDA to develop it. missionlocal.org/2023/12/meda-m…

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