Evolving in involvement.

There had been many talks about how some people and residents feel about the current renovations that the district has been going through. New housing projects are being built (right along Third Street) to compliment the new T-train line that Muni has built on the busy Third Street intersection hoping to attract many more people to break the mythical fear about the Bayview/ Hunters Point District's bad rep.

"Cultural/Retail destination" is the goal that many city lawmakers hope to get as a result of all the money being spent to 'clean up' the neighborhood, but the reality of it is that regardless of how high-tech savvy the place may look, the busier it gets, and regardless of how much money they generate from the projects, the often forgotten youth of the neighborhood are still lost, bored and left with nothing to do.

With all the new small businesses going up and housing developments being celebrated about, they are giving the youth all the more reason to vandalize and tag the walls of these freshly painted buildings. After all that, the small business owners would still have to come off the pocket to repaint the damage and so on and so forth.. I wonder why city law makers do not spend enough money towards youth interest.
Or, at least do something that will show these 'bad ass' kids that someone and or that the city does care about them and they're well being, instead thousands and thousands of money are going towards their incarceration. But is it really because city law makers don't care?? Maybe because these bad ass kids or gang members are not they're children, maybe that's just the way it is, or perhaps they just don't know any better. Why should they care? They aren't the ones being victimized, and after all they don't have to live next door to these so called 'hoodlums'.

So what can we do as a community to save these troubled youth? Aside from the fact that these children are the future, the whole thing is a ball of rubber bands waiting to unravel. Everyone is connected to each other and one youth's action is reflected towards the whole community.
Like the saying goes, "It takes a whole village to raise a child," I think its appropriate to think that the same apply to our neighborhoods. Solutions we can think of to better improve the lack of guidance in the home, and have more community programs after school are all lacking thanks to the recession monster. But somehow, someway new buildings are being built... well someones done some hard work to fund that project. So why can't we do the same for the youth.
We need more youth outreach programs, more parent involvement in school and parents need to get involved in their children's lives. Anyone can just be a parent, but not just anyone can be a mother or a father. Let's get involved and evolve.