purportedly solicited by a rogue middle manager at a Potrero Hill public housing complex, Supervisor Shamann Walton today blasted both the management company overseeing the site and the San Francisco Housing Authority.
Beyond the rent allegations, Walton also drew attention to ongoing issues on the site, including slow work order response times, inconsistent trash pickups,Supervisor Ahsha Safaí asked to review Eugene Burger’s contract, suggesting that the purported illegal rent collection could be grounds for terminating it.
Walton said Bridge Housing staff visited the site on a recent Saturday, and observed water damage but chose to ignore it. By Sunday, a major leak had flooded the building’s lobby. “That was the most ridiculous thing I ever heard; where there’s smoke there’s fire,” Walton said. He personally went out to the site after residents called him about the leak, and only then did Bridge Housing employees arrive.
“When Eugene Burger illegally rented those units, those residents now became your responsibility, whether you want to accept that or not,” Walton said to Housing Authority CEO Tonia Lediju. But Walton said he was independently familiar with goings-on at Potrero Hill, and called it “insulting” to insinuate that the reporting was inaccurate.
The Housing Authority is also considering a proposal to bring in armed security guards to the housing complex, Lediju confirmed today.