[CPEO-BIF] "The Sunset’s first 100% affordable housing project sits on carcinogenic ground," San Francisco, California

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Sunset’s first 100% affordable housing project sits on carcinogenic ground

By Jessica Wolfrom 
San Francisco Examiner (CA)
July 13, 2022

Adam Michels first discovered there were toxic vapors seeping into his downstairs shower last September.

The news came thanks in part to a contentious new development slated for a nearby corner of Irving Street: a seven-story, 90-unit building — and the first 100% affordable housing of its kind in the Sunset District.

While some of his neighbors have long opposed the block-long behemoth, without it, he may never have learned about his exposure to tetrachloroethylene, sometimes referred to as perchloroethylene or PCE, a volatile organic compound from two erstwhile dry cleaning businesses that operated on his block for decades.

“I wouldn't have known if it weren't for the testing,” said Michels.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-sunset-s-first-100-affordable-housing-project-sits-on-carcinogenic-ground/article_5ac48f4a-02c5-11ed-af79-5f21f1e8f8c6.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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