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Plentiful public housing has lowered land values to around the lowest in San Francisco, subsequently having the highest home ownership rates in the city.

Hunters Point has among the worst performing schools in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Arlene Ackerman has recently initiated her " Dream Schools " initiative, which aims to provide smaller, more efficient schools. The youth of this neighborhood often travel several miles daily to go to schools in other parts of the city, having a commute significantly longer than that of their peers.

One of the city's current projects with this neighborhood is the Third Street Light Rail , further completing the city's expanding mass transit system into less serviced neighborhoods. Residents are widely skeptical of this project, most likely ensuring gentrification in one of the least developed neighborhoods in San Francisco.

The neighborhood's population has changed considerably over the years- a declining African-American population has moved to other Bay Area cities, notably Oakland and Richmond while Latinos, Asians, and Whites represent a growing part of the neighborhood.

Hunters Point also has a unique microclimate - the warmest in all of foggy San Francisco, often never experienced by most of the city's residents.