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Legislation proposed by the San Francisco supervisor would give families forced out of their homes by the redevelopment of The City’s Hunters Point and Western Addition neighborhoods in the 1960s and ’70s preference for new below-market-rate housing, State law requires that those displaced be given preference in obtaining new housing in redevelopment projects.Bay Area NewsBoard of SupervisorsGovernment & PoliticsLocalPolitics

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