Press Release
Changing Neighborhoods, Changing Lives – Preserving Affordable Homeownership and Revitalizing Neighborhoods.
Rebuilding Together San Francisco announces neighborhood focus.
San Francisco, CA – February 18, 2010 – During each annual Rebuilding Day, more than a thousand skilled and unskilled Bay Area volunteers renovate non-profit facilities and schools and repair the homes of people who—due to age, financial limitations, or disability—cannot do the work themselves. We work in neighborhoods throughout San Francisco, serving on average 15 homes and 15 facilities each April.
This year, RTSF launches our new Changing Neighborhoods, Changing Lives campaign, where we will create partnerships with existing San Francisco neighborhood groups to execute neighborhood improvements, including home repairs, facility and school renovations, community green projects and energy efficiency retrofits. Our goal is to support positive changes that have already been initiated by the neighborhood, build on established momentum, and increase the neighborhood’s capacity for growth and change though our collaborative efforts. Each year, we will select a neighborhood that is primarily low or moderate income, where we have had a high concentration of clients in the past, and which has an active neighborhood association. We believe that an integrated effort—bringing together the entire neighborhood’s resources—will result in more comprehensive and lasting improvements in each area we serve.
In April 2010, 30-40% of our Rebuilding Day projects will be located in San Francisco’s Excelsior District. The area has a large number of lower income home owners, 14% of its residents are seniors, 24% have disabilities, and 8% live below the poverty level. The community also has a high minority concentration (83%) and a strong neighborhood organization, the Excelsior Action Group, which has been working to improve the quality of life in the Excelsior since 2002.
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