A 37-year-old man was fatally stabbed at a supportive housing unit in SoMa
The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim of a fatal stabbing that occurred March 13 in the South of Market neighborhood as 37-year-old Toti Anamani, Jr.
The incident took place at the Plaza Apartments at Howard and Sixth Streets, according to residents interviewed by Mission Local.
The building is a supportive-housing unit for people with disabilities and people who have experienced homelessness, and is funded by the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Direct Access to Housing program, according to the property manager’s website.
San Francisco police responded to the SoMa building at 2:10 p.m., where they found the victim with multiple stab wounds, according to a department press release. He died at the scene. The police department’s homicide detail is investigating.
Staff members at the building declined to comment and referred questions to the property manager, the John Stewart Company.
The firm is the largest affordable housing manager in California, managing 289 properties across the state, including 40 in San Francisco. It has been the subject of lawsuits in recent years, alleging poor conditions at its properties, among other issues.
The company did not return a request for comment.
Residents of the building told Mission Local that the suspect had been arrested, and that he lived in the building. They did not know the victim.
The police department has not announced an arrest and did not return requests for comment.
Campers,
John Stewart (yes, there is such man) made their bones throwing black people out of housing and encouraging them to take their vouchers to other towns or states where they would be worth much more.
They always promised ‘right of return’ but you’re more likely to find a hen with teeth than someone who exercised that right.
This is no benevolent real estate company.
They are racist capitalists who cut fat pieces out of the yearly budgets of a number of towns and the like.
Just saying …
go Niners !!
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Yay! Mission Housing, MEDA and Jackie Fielder are forcing Permanent Supportive Housing on 16th and Mission. Can’t wait for the hilarity that ensues.
Marcos. I am not sure what hilarity you are talking about. I see the suffering of people on the very corner you speak of every day. It seems perfectly reasonable to get folks in doors and address their problems one at a time or give support. Moving people around and trying to require that folks stay away from areas they are familiar was in a different mission local story last week. I want a less violent world and to me living without shelter or resources is a form of social violence.
Tell me with a straight face that PSH would be sited anywhere near an elementary school that was predominantly white or Asian American in San Francisco. Do you think that kids playing at recess should be seeing body bags on gurneys being brought by the coroner?
Do you really think that people will get clean living on top of the fentanyl mercado? Should at risk youth be exposed to all of this while they’re trying to learn? Or is the point to teach these kids an object lesson?
The interests of addicts are necessarily subordinate to the interests of at risk youth.
Your original post did not have any mention of Marshall though my questions would not change. Do you think the kids at the school are now protected from the reality of what is happening on the street? Do you think doing nothing is the answer to that?
Jessica,
“16th and Mission” is a code we use for a “shit show” next to an elementary school. Don’t want to offend the “folks” you refer to by calling them out as the cause of the “shit show”.