Go out and grab this week’s SF Weekly and check-out Joe Kukura’s exposé about those scary Monster in the Mission BART ads.

Joe’s sharp reporting connects the dots between the Monster in the Mission’s massively expensive “grassroots effort” and powerful Big Soda and Big Tobacco lobbyists  “The ads say supporters of the project ‘not a Monster,’ but you might as well call them Monsters, Inc., because they’re many of the same corporate lobbying interests who recently fought for the tobacco industry and the soda industry… Further, Mission For All’s listed mailing address is that of a San Rafael corporate law firm called Nielsen Merksamer, which is also leading the lobbying effort against the flavored tobacco ban the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed in June.”

Big Soda and Big Tobacco have long histories of exploiting working class communities of color, these developers pretend to have the Mission community in mind but we know this crew of monsters has no place in our neighborhood. Chirag Bhakta, Plaza 16 coalition member, says of the ads “Exploitation of people of color in an ad campaign to convince a mainly Latino, immigrant, low-income neighborhood that this gentrifying project is actually going to help the neighborhood comes out of Rapacious Marketing 101,” Bhakta says. “Most of the people who are showcased in these ads most likely are not going to be able to afford these units being built.”

This Halloween, stand with Plaza 16 and make sure the monsters don’t win!

Please take a moment today to help stop the Monster in the Mission. Thank you! 

Send an email to these addresses:

WE NEED TO  FLOOD HIS PHONES MONDAY AND TUESDAY (7/10 & 7/11)

David Chiu is the Assemblymember for the east side of SF and he is chair of the the critical last committee — Housing — for SB 35 and he can make the changes to this legislation to protecT the Mission District and other vulnerable neighborhoods in California.

TWO EASY STEPS — Takes less than one minute.

1). CALL: (916) 319 – 2017

2.  SAY: “I am a constituent of Assemblymember Chiu and I urge him to oppose SB 35 unless it includes community coalition ammendments such as a ‘safe habor’ provision for our low income communities.”

PLEASE CALL NOW!

Here is a June 10 OpEd with further information on the bill and the impacts it would have on the Mission District and other vulnerable California neighborhoods:  http://www.sfexaminer.com/senate-bill-35-will-cause-displacement-communities-color/

AND SIGN THE PETITION!
https://www.change.org/p/protect-our-low-income-communities-oppose-sb-35-unless-amended

:: Español abajo ::

Robert Rosania/Maximus’s ten-story luxury Monster in the Mission would cast a shadow on the Marshall School playground during most of the day for the entire school year. It would also consist mostly of housing utterly unaffordable to our community and would rapidly accelerate displacement in the neighborhood.

On April 25, let the SFUSD School Board and administration know that we need a community-planned, and community serving development at 16th and Mission, not a monster luxury project.
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Un desarrollo habitacional de lujo de diez pisos (el Monstruo de la Misión) propuesto para la16 y Misión. La Misión necesita viviendas profundamente asequibles, no más torres de lujo!

El Monstruo de la Misión arrojará una gran sombra en el patio de la escuela Marshall durante la mayor parte del día de todo el año escolar. El Monstruo consistirá principalmente en viviendas totalmente inapropiadas para nuestra comunidad y acelerará rápidamente el desplazamiento en el evecindario. El 25 de abril, déjale saber la Junta de Educación y a la administración que lo que necesitamos es desarrollos planeados por y para la comunidad de la 16 y Misión, no un monstruoso proyecto de lujo.

ROBERT ROSANIA!
WE REJECT YOUR MONSTER IN OUR MISSION
TUESDAY, APRIL 11
5:30 PM
16th and Mission Plaza
RSVP and invite your friends on facebook.

Rosania is trying to revive the Monster and is funding a deceitful astroturf campaign
Our fight against Maximus/Robert Rosania’s luxury Monster in the Mission is not over! We have learned the project may be coming for a vote before the Planning Commission in the near future. Meanwhile Robert Rosania has hired astroturf consultants and canvassers who are intimidating and lying to folks in our community about whom they represent and how the Monster would impact our community.

It’s once again time to raise our voice and let Rosania and our City leaders know that we reject the Monster in the Mission. We need affordable housing and community serving businesses, not luxury towers that will further escalate the displacement of our community.

We demand that Rosania attend a community meeting in the Mission District to listen to the people whose lives he will be severely impacting.

Who is Robert Rosania?
Robert Rosania is the CEO of Maximus Real Estate Partners, a controversial real estate developer with a shady history on both coasts. Rosania was a lead partner in the purchase of Parkmerced in San Francisco and the subsequent plan to demolish 1,500 rent-controlled units there.  At Parkmerced he fired the entire staff of SEIU USWW union janitors replacing them with non-union workers. In New York City, he personally netted millions in a notorious predatory equity scheme at Riverton Houses that ultimately defaulted and put at risk the housing of thousands of middle and working class residents.

In an attempt to overcome the massive community opposition to his Monster in the Mission, Rosania has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to local political campaigns to purchase influence in our City government. He is also notorious for his support of extreme right-wing causes and has made large contributions to politicians that oppose same sex marriage, immigration reform, and who support denial of climate change.

Rosania clearly cares nothing about our community and about San Francisco values. He cares only about his personal profits. He and his proposed project are bad for our neighborhood and bad for our city.

Build the 100% affordable MARVEL in the Mission, not the Monster
For more than three years, thousands of Mission residents have rallied, signed petitions, spoken at community meetings and delivered countless hours of testimony at City hearings demanding, “NO MONSTER IN THE MISSION.”

Rosania’s luxury towers would be utterly unaffordable for the existing community and further rising rents would mean the pricing out of existing families and businesses in the area. The people, merchants, and organizations that we cherish—our very community—will be displaced forever from the neighborhood.

The Plaza 16 Coalition spent months facilitating a collaborative community planning process to come up with a positive alternative development we call the MARVEL in the Mission.  The Marvel’s housing would be 100% truly affordable and the project would serve other needs of the existing community.

CRUCIAL HEARING for the CALLE 24 LATINO CULTURAL DISTRICT

THIS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9
1:00PM
SF City Hall
Planning Commission Meeting
Room 400, 4th Floor

YES on PROP I MOBILIZATION
Saturday, October 17
10:00 AM
2301 Mission St. at 19th
1st Floor Mercadito

Co-hosted by The Plaza 16 Coalition / La Coalición de Plaza 16

SÍ a la Prop I
Sabado 17 de Octubre
10:00 AM
2301 Mission Street x 19th Street
Primero Piso en el Mercadito

Please join us for the

YES ON PROP I :: TOWN HALL
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 at 6PM
St. John’s Church
Julian at 15th Street

Join us for a Mission town hall to learn more about why Prop I is so important for the future of the Mission and San Franicsco. Hosted by the Prop I campaign and the Plaza 16 Coalition.

For more information call Maria Z. at 415-487-9203 ext. 207

RSVP and invite your friends on Facebook

SÍ A LA PROP I :: FORO COMUNITARIO en la MISSION
Miércoles 14 de OCTUBRE
6:00PM
Julian St. y 15th Street

Venga al foro comunitario en la Mission para aprender mas sobre la Prop. I porque es una media tan importante en este siclo de elecciones.

Para mas información contacte a Maria Zamudio 415-487-9230 ext. 207

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