Economy
How San Francisco Is Trying to Reinvent the Housing Project
Hope SF aims to provide social services for residents in a city where property values are skyrocketing.
To make sure kids in her neighborhood go to school, Uzuri Pease-Greene walks them herself. Outfitted in bright yellow vests, she and her daughter begin their half-mile route at 7:30 each morning, stopping to pick up nine to 17 kids along the way. Forty minutes later, they arrive at Daniel Webster Elementary School in time for the school-provided breakfast.
"Once they get with me, it's like, 'You're my child now,'" the no-nonsense 48-year-old grandmother of 13 says, with a laugh. "I become a big mother."