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Reader alert: The next OCII Commission meeting is on Tuesday, Sept. 4, at 1 p.m. To provide public comment, attend the meeting in person or remotely via teleconference: https://sfocii.org/remotemeeting-information.Please email or call Thor Kaslofsky, executive director of the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure, to express your concerns and support for Certificate of Preference (COP) replacement housing set-asides and equitable development in Candlestick and Hunters Point: Thor.Kaslofsky@sfgov.org, 415-749-2588.Please also direct emails, letters and phone calls to the commission: Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure, 1 South Van Ness Ave., Fifth Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103, commissionsecretary.ociI@sfgov.org.As chronicled in a recent report by Stanford Law School, San Francisco has an unrivaled track record of inequitable development, displacement, redlining and intentionally racist policies depriving its Black citizens of opportunities to build intergenerational wealth and to access affordable housing, living wage jobs, quality education and health care. Tragically, this lamentable situation continues unabated in the present day, even as recent conversations, movements and proposals for reparations have advanced at the local, state and federal level – even as the city has received substantial funding from the federal government in recent years to address poverty – and even as San Francisco Democrats are poised...

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