Residents at 1101 Connecticut, the first completed building in a massive rebuild of the Potrero Hill public housing complex, said during a community
meeting this week that BRIDGE Housing is mismanaging the site. no management — the site has had no property manager for months. As a result, they said, issues abound: A long-broken garage door allows for non-residents to enter the property freely, security guards allow for unsafe conditions to go unchecked, and plumbing issues and broken appliances go unfixed.
Five BRIDGE Housing employees showed up, four of them from out of town. Some thirty residents came to air their grievances. “Are one of y’all going to sit in that office until you all actually get a property manager?” asked Shervon Hunter, a nearby Potrero Hill resident who runs the nonprofit Stand in Peace, Inc. “No one’s sitting in that office at 9 o’clock on a Wednesday.” One resident, Katherine, said she wished she hadn’t moved into the new building. She was moved into a unit that was previously the site of a fire, with various unresolved issues that still remain including a hole in her wall.
Employees from BRIDGE Housing address residents at 1101 Connecticut on May 30, 2024. Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan. “With that gate being open and people having the freedom to go inside the building, that scares me,” she said, adding that she has recently had trouble sleeping when she hears noises in the building or sees strangers smoking in the stairwells. “I should feel safe inside my building where I pay rent.”
“I cannot speak if we have a resident manager on site right now… I can get back to you,” Seshadri said.
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