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Annika Hom spent months going to The Hill – four subsidized housing properties managed and owned by Related – to document the conditions tenants had been telling her about. She first visited and wrote about The Hill in 2021, but felt there was more to do. She was right.

Late Friday, we published Part 1. Will Jarrett created a layout that makes it easier to explore. Let us know what you think.

Bayview is a neighborhood that we would love to spend more time in. Your donations help us do that.

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for something to do this weekend, read neighborhood notes – there’s a lot going on.

Enjoy,

Lydia

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Part 1: Life on The Hill – where leaks, roaches and rats take months to abate

By Annika Hom

What is it like to live in an apartment that is making you sick? Residents of The Hill – four subsidized properties in Bayview, tell their stories.

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Neighborhood Notes: Legacy biz, Paseo Artistico, a hike

By Annika Hom

So much to do! Enjoy.

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By Walter Mackins

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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.

As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.