San Francisco Chinatown bursts back to life with block party aimed at racial unity
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CYC Dancers perform a Lion Dance at a Summer block party at Ping Yuen public housing project in the heart of San Francisco s Chinatown on Saturday, July 17, 2021.Nick Otto / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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A gentlemen known as Guy from Hunters Point dances with Mrs. Lee Chang Jok at a Summer block party at Ping Yuen public housing project in the heart of San Francisco s Chinatown on Saturday, July 17, 2021.Nick Otto / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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People are seen dancing and celebrating at a Summer block party at Ping Yuen public housing project in the heart of San Francisco s Chinatown on Saturday, July 17, 2021.Nick Otto / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
“We’re trying to build Asian Black solidarity and right here we talk about the big issues, what are we doing in our own neighborhood,” said Rev. Norman Fong.
The event was held outside Ping Yuen Public Housing. It was organized by Chinatown Community Development Center, Community Youth Center and community groups.
San Francisco London Breed was one of the speakers of the event.
“This is what unity looks like when we come together as a community to protect one another,” she said.
Organizers offered for food, music and a message
“Last year is there was a major uptick in AAPI hate and violence incidence. A lot of time there is a lot of anti-blackness sentiment that has been very divisive in the community,” said Sarah Wan, Community Youth Center.
A set of crucial decisions that could impact the city’s politics for the next decade are going to start to play out
Monday/19 at the Board of Supes Rules Committee – and most of the news media hasn’t even notices.
The committee will recommend three people to serve on the city’s Redistricting Task Force, which will write new lines for the supervisorial districts based on the 2020 census.
This is potentially critical – even small changes in the current lines could have a big political impact.
And the task force will be making more than small changes: The city has picked up 80,000 new residents in the past ten years, most of them on the East Side of town, so some district lines will have to change pretty significantly.
API leaders urge city to approve affordable housing project in SF Sunset District
By Daniel Montes article
SAN FRANCISCO - Leaders with San Francisco s Asian and Pacific Islander communities on Wednesday voiced support for a proposed 100 percent affordable housing development in the Sunset District, which would be the first of its kind in the neighborhood.
The proposal at 2550 Irving St. would be seven stories with up to 100 units, consisting of studios, one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom apartments.
At least 40 percent of the units would be set aside for Sunset residents.
The support comes as the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee on Wednesday is set to approve a $14 million loan agreement with the Mayor s Office of Housing and Community Development and the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation to acquire the property and fund pre-development. The funding would come from November 2019 s Proposition A, a voter-approved housing bond.
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