Winning bidder stole cruise terminal plan, lawsuit says. But the company didn't give any specifics, and community members fear that rents for the units designated affordable will still be out of the price range of many Bayview-Hunters Point residents. Lynne Brown and his family have lived in public housing adjacent to the shipyard for the past seven years. Brown worries that if Lennar's plan goes through, he'll be priced out of the new housing there.
Trouble is, the area around the shipyard is considerably poorer than the Bay Area as a whole.
Lennar plans to build 360 units of affordable housing at the 1,800-unit site. According to CBE's findings, many residents will find themselves priced out of even those units. The report, and the resulting bad press, had an impact. On July 20, at a hearing on the plan before the Redevelopment Commission, Lennar operations director Roy Willis promised the company would build more than 20 percent affordable housing and would adjust the price of that housing to the average income levels of people in the area. Lennar did not respond to calls by press time, but local activists are skeptical.