Photo Essay: Potrero Hill Terrace and Annex demolished after years-long wait ⁠25%

By Marina Newman⁠12% Thomas Hunter II⁠7%

7/14/2026, 11:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Unattributed Quote, and Hasty Generalization, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 43.9% saturation with 104 hits. Analysis detected 560 faulty-reasoning hits from 237 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 37.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠25% (15,921 of 21,181 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 75.20% of the article peer group.

One of the last remaining public housing buildings in San Francisco is coming down. 
The World War II-era buildings, formerly run by the San Francisco Housing Authority, will be torn down over the course of at least nine months, according to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. 
Plans to demolish the buildings were announced in 2017, and repeatedly delayed. 
Over the course of several years, the troubled buildings have been subject to lethal fires, squatting, and mismanagement. 
Over the past nine weeks, photographer Thomas Hunter II documented the beginning of Potrero Hill Terrace and Annex’s demolition. 
“It started with AT&T marking telecom equipment and PG&E performing gas shutoffs,” said Hunter. 
“After that crews visit each building in waves: First, an asbestos abatement crew goes through a building wearing hazmat suits and fills up bags. 
Next, firefighters climb to the roof and practice vertical ventilation where they cut holes with big saws. 
Finally, a demolition crew knocks the building down with an excavator.” 
“Despite all this the neighborhood remained alive. 
Squatters sleep in a building at night and leave signs of their passing like a mattress, a scrawled message, a hole in a fence. 
Commuters walk down the main street and rubber-neck. 
Autonomous Waymos drive in, get discouraged, and make U-Turns. 
It's quiet now that most buildings have been reduced to concrete foundations,” said Hunter. 
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237 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers59%attributed speech96writer words
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Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageMayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development • 35 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageThomas Hunter II • 19 words • 0.0% coverageThomas Hunter II • 14 words • 100.0% coverageThomas Hunter II • 24 words • 100.0% coverageThomas Hunter II • 17 words • 100.0% coverageThomas Hunter II • 11 words • 100.0% coverageThomas Hunter II • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageThomas Hunter II • 14 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Thomas Hunter II

100%flagged-word coverage
106 attributed words75% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%32.5%65.0%Unattributed Quote+62.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%Thomas Hunter II: 62.3%62.3%Quote-first Misdirection+13.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%Thomas Hunter II: 13.2%13.2%Biased Writer Voice-9.4 ptsWriter: 9.4%Thomas Hunter II: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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