S.F. Housing Authority moves to replace troubled firm managing public housing

The Eugene Burger Management Corporation, a scandal-ridden private firm that has overseen two of San Francisco public housing complexes since 2022, may not have a long future in the city. 

A representative from the company typically provides a update on the Potrero Hill and Sunnydale public housing sites before the San Francisco Housing Authority Board of Commissioners each month. But at today’s meeting, Housing Authority CEO Tonia Lediju gave a brief announcement that the agency would be issuing a request for proposal for property management at those locations. 

Lediju provided little additional information. The expected update from Eugene Burger Management about happenings at the sites did not occur. 

“As it relates to Sunnydale and Potrero, we are going to be putting out our RFP, request for proposal, for property management,” Lediju said. “And we just wanted to advise you of that.”

The commissioners appeared to have expected the announcement, and asked no questions. 

Eugene Burger Management has been accused of neglecting its tenants as it oversees the Potrero Terrace, Potrero Annex, and Sunnydale-Velasco complexes during an extensive rebuild of the city’s public housing. 

Mission Local has followed the troubles on Potrero Hill since a fire in January 2023 killed a 40-year-old man and displaced several others. Earlier this year, Mission Local reported that a middle manager was allegedly collecting under-the-table rent from squatters who had sought shelter in the many vacant apartments in Potrero. 

That investigation appears to be ongoing, but last month, Eugene Burger began evicting many of those squatters en masse. 

“I hope it means the end of Eugene Burger working in San Francisco,” said District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton when asked about the announcement.