Hunters Point, named after a local family during the nineteenth century, is located in the extreme southeastern part of San Francisco, strung along the main artery of Third Street from India Basin to Candlestick Point. Bayview-Hunters Point, known to many San Franciscans as "HP," is a predominantly African-American area. The neighborhood has a population of 20,322 and is roughly 60% African-American.

Hunters Point is home to many family businesses, community organizations, home recording studios, and churches that have thriving congregations. Many of the African-Americans in the area are the children of the massive Southern migration of the 1940s, during which thousands of African-Americans came from Southern states for job opportunities at the burgeoning war industries at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Between 1940 and 1950, the population leaped from 16,500 to 147,000; the neighborhood's predominance of African-Americans is a legacy of the restrictive housing practices of the past. Many prominent rap musicians such as Cold World Hustlaz and RBL Posse hail from hunters point.

Many consider Bayview-Hunters Point a marginalized community because it contains nearly one-third of San Francisco's toxic waste sites. Additionally, the area is plagued with crime, prostitution, gang and drug activity, as well as a high murder rate. Until the late 2000s the community did not even have a single supermarket serving fresh and healthy foods, but community gardening is increasingly popular in the area. The Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood's population is changing — a traditionally Black-community originally established the Hunters Point Shipyard and blue-collar factory jobs.

Many community groups, such as the India Basin Neighborhood Association, the Quesada Gardens Initiative and the Bayview Footprints Collaboration of Community-Building Groups work with community members, other organizations and city-wide agencies to strengthen and improve this diverse part of San Francisco. Bayview-Hunters Point is also home to 2 of the most notorious gangs in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Westmob (located on West Point and Middle Point Roads) and Big Block (located on Harbor Road) gangs. The neighborhood is one of the most crime ridden neighborhoods in the bay area.

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