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Supporters of the bill say it could make a dent in an area that many Bay Area housing and racial justice advocates assert is long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But success isn’t guaranteed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some West Coast cities have seen mixed results from their efforts to remedy similar urban infrastructure projects during the 1960s and 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco went through a very ugly period where in the name of ‘urban renewal,’ the city bulldozed and destroyed thousands and thousands of homes, primarily in Black, Japanese and Filipino neighborhoods,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who authored \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB593\">Senate Bill 593\u003c/a>. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)\"]‘San Francisco went through a very ugly period where in the name of ‘urban renewal,’ the city bulldozed and destroyed thousands and thousands of homes, primarily in Black, Japanese and Filipino neighborhoods.’[/pullquote] The bill aims to fund the production of nearly 6,000 affordable housing units that were destroyed during the mid-century redevelopment era in San Francisco’s Western Addition, Fillmore, Japantown and SoMa neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a horrific situation and San Francisco has a legal responsibility to replace the homes that were destroyed when redevelopment ended a decade ago,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 593 cleared the California Legislature on Wednesday and is now awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature. The bill would allow residual property tax dollars to remain in the city’s Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund, rather than be redistributed to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure could then issue bonds to construct or add 5,800 units of replacement housing that were never rebuilt after redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, there are between 500–900 units in the city’s own pipeline for affordable housing construction that could benefit from the new financing structure. The city will also solicit projects and developers that could maximize the number of new affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11960806 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homes at Freedom West, a housing cooperative, seen from the interior courtyard in the Fillmore District on Sept. 11, 2023. The property will be redeveloped in what is referred to as ‘Freedom West 2.0,’ with new buildings for current residents and community facilities. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are a number of housing projects in the works that could seek funding if they are approved. Among them is Freedom West cooperative in the Western Addition, which is currently working on a renovation and expansion project with the developer MacFarlane Partners to replace 382 co-op units and add 133 affordable homes to the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattie Scott is a longtime resident of the Western Addition and president of the Freedom West Housing Cooperative in San Francisco, which supports Wiener’s bill. She remembers growing up in the neighborhood before redevelopment cleared it out to make way for new expressways and shopping centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just wonderful being a teenager to have that experience with so much diversity,” Scott told KQED of the variety of businesses and restaurants near the Western Addition in the early 1960s. “Fillmore was the Harlem of the West at that time. You couldn’t wait to get to Fillmore Street with your families on any given day. There were Italian meat markets, Jewish delis and Japanese restaurants.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mattie Scott, president, Freedom West Housing Cooperative\"]‘Fillmore was the Harlem of the West at that time. You couldn’t wait to get to Fillmore Street with your families on any given day. There were Italian meat markets, Jewish delis and Japanese restaurants.’[/pullquote] When the U.S. federal government began implementing the National Housing Act of 1949, San Francisco’s Western Addition and Japantown were among the first areas selected for redevelopment in the name of addressing so-called “urban blight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make way for a widened Geary Boulevard, the government bulldozed thousands of homes in the area that were predominantly owned and lived in by Black, Filipino, Japanese and some Jewish residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, San Franciscans like Scott who remember the vibrant neighborhoods that were destroyed say the urgency to rebuild the lost homes is long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They called it urban renewal, but I call it urban removal,” Scott said. “All of a sudden, you just see your neighborhood just demolished, you know, homes demolished, Victorian houses demolished, whole communities. Grocery stores down the block where you go to eat with your family were no longer there. To me, as a young person, it was very devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families in nearby Japantown have passed on similar stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community had just returned from concentration camps during World War II, and a lot of businesses and homes had already been lost. Then redevelopment happened, so it was this one-two punch that really devastated Japantown,” said Jeremy Chan, a board member with the Japantown Task Force. “The creation of the Geary Expressway created this physical barrier that divided Japantown from our African American neighbors in the Fillmore, and we’re still struggling to repair and rebuild those connections to this day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11960803 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Chan (left) and Glynis Nakahara stand in a residential area of Japantown in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back then, the city promised to rebuild homes and give preference to families who had to flee. But it’s largely failed to follow through with promises to rebuild those homes, and only a small fraction of people have used their opportunity to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were forced to leave Japantown and then they were later unable to return either because they were priced out or because they ended up being disqualified for the certificates of preference they received,” Chan explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Redressing redevelopment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To address the displacement redevelopment caused, San Francisco and other cities have given preference for affordable housing to people who lost their homes and to their descendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1960s, San Francisco has distributed 6,957 “\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/dashboard-certificate-preference-eligible-waitlist-opportunities#how-to-use-the-dashboard\">certificates of preference\u003c/a>” to residents and descendants of residents who lost homes due to redevelopment, according to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. The certificates provide \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/dashboard-certificate-preference-eligible-waitlist-opportunities#how-to-use-the-dashboard\">priority for certain housing units\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But out of the nearly 7,000 certificates of preference issued by the city, less than 1,500 of those have been utilized as of Aug. 18, city data shows. [aside postID=news_11957757 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1408881472-for-wp-1020x760.jpg'] Those who do want to use their certificate often face long wait lists. There are approximately 115,000 applicants wait-listed for the 28,500 public housing units eligible for the certificates, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to those 28,500 units, the city is also listing 1,274 home-ownership and rental units that certificate holders can apply for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Sept. 7, there were nine below-market-rate homeownership units available for certificate holders, and one rental unit available, according to data from the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 593 would increase the production of units that are eligible for the certificates and aims to prevent further displacement for families who are currently in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has actually, for a while, had this commitment to restore the units that were demolished during urban renewal, and this bill would provide some of the funding that’s required to help restore that,” said Sujata Srivastava, housing and planning director at the local public policy nonprofit, SPUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Japantown Peace Plaza in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But many families who were displaced during that era have left, establishing lives, businesses and communities elsewhere, as affordable housing in San Francisco has lagged to meet a growing demand. When homes and businesses were destroyed, trust also eroded between the city and the communities it forced out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an argument for thinking more expansively about what it might look like if you were really trying to help, especially Black and African American households that were displaced from redevelopment,” Srivastava said. “How do you actually think about correcting those harms?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of SB 593 don’t expect the bill to lead to a wave of migration back to San Francisco by families who were displaced decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is a hope that it can mitigate the housing crisis and acknowledge the ways that crisis falls disproportionately on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rethinking Reparations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s Reparations Task Force \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ch22-ca-reparations.pdf\">recommends giving preference to affordable housing, also known as “right to return” policies, for displaced African Americans (PDF)\u003c/a> as one of several ways to address lingering effects of racism and slavery on African Americans and broader society today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Predominantly white neighborhoods are that way for a clear reason: the history of racist housing policies,” said Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis, chair of the Geography Department at UC Berkeley and a member of California’s Reparations Task Force. “The only antidote to that is to create a justice-oriented housing policy. The first step is to give community members who were dispossessed a right to return.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín\"]‘We must face and rectify the wrongs of our City’s past and do right by those who were displaced. This policy will prioritize housing for those who have faced injustices, and restore the diversity of our community.’[/pullquote] Lewis pointed to places like Evanston, Illinois, which in 2021 became the first U.S. city to issue reparations for slavery through housing grants to Black residents. He said the effort was well-intended, but more limited in scale and scope than what he and other racial justice advocates want to see in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, other cities are putting forward policies that tie reparations to housing, but with different mechanisms for getting there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the city of Berkeley adopted a \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AR5OmrYC8r7A%C3%89N2HFiUv4RJEsSIWGVj4VrP3fd706J0hSXkyL2DAt1mrdqsXUoz6OGtf13qdxu%C3%89asqGqDxGiyGc%3D/\">housing preference policy (PDF)\u003c/a> that prioritizes affordable housing for current and former Berkeley residents, along with their descendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s plan would prioritize people who were displaced because of BART construction, foreclosure anytime after 2005, or no-fault evictions and other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must face and rectify the wrongs of our City’s past and do right by those who were displaced,” Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín said in a press release after the policy was announced. “This policy will prioritize housing for those who have faced injustices, and restore the diversity of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some are skeptical of the idea. [aside label='More Stories on Bay Area Housing' tag='housing'] Historian Darrell Millner saw how his city of Portland, Oregon, sought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wweek.com/news/2022/05/25/the-city-of-portland-tried-to-undo-gentrification-black-portlanders-are-conflicted-about-the-results/\">slow gentrification and address redevelopment harms\u003c/a> by building new affordable housing to keep families in place and provide preference for housing to those who were displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program helped hundreds of lower-income residents lease subsidized apartments and at least 110 families buy homes, 94 of which were Black Portlanders, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/phb/nne-oversight/documents/n-ne-annual-report-2022/download\">city report (PDF)\u003c/a>. But some criticized the effort for having a relatively small impact compared to the damage that was done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad for the people who could find some decent housing in a decent part of town. But you haven’t replaced what was destroyed,” said Darrell Millner, professor emeritus of Black Studies at Portland State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This happened to so many communities and in so many areas here in the Bay Area. We are now shining a light of hope that we bring families back,” said Scott of the Freedom West Housing Cooperative. “This bill is going to help us in many ways to address those issues and allow working class families and seniors to be able to afford to stay in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A state bill approved by lawmakers on Wednesday aims to fund the construction of nearly 6,000 affordable housing units to help replace ones that were destroyed a half-century ago, largely in communities of color, in the name of urban renewal.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1694703252,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":42,"wordCount":2094},"headData":{"title":"Thousands of SF Homes Destroyed Decades Ago During 'Redevelopment' Could Be Rebuilt for Lower-Income Residents | KQED","description":"A state bill approved by lawmakers on Wednesday aims to fund the construction of nearly 6,000 affordable housing units to help replace ones that were destroyed a half-century ago, largely in communities of color, in the name of urban renewal.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Thousands of SF Homes Destroyed Decades Ago During 'Redevelopment' Could Be Rebuilt for Lower-Income Residents","datePublished":"2023-09-13T23:00:34.000Z","dateModified":"2023-09-14T14:54:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11961026/thousands-sf-homes-destroyed-decades-ago-rebuilt-under-new-bill","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Decades after San Francisco bulldozed thousands of homes in the name of redevelopment, a state bill could boost efforts to repair that damage and make it easier for displaced families to regain a foothold in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push comes as San Francisco faces a state-mandated obligation to produce nearly 46,000 units for very low, low and moderate-income households in the next eight years. Supporters of the bill say it could make a dent in an area that many Bay Area housing and racial justice advocates assert is long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But success isn’t guaranteed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some West Coast cities have seen mixed results from their efforts to remedy similar urban infrastructure projects during the 1960s and 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco went through a very ugly period where in the name of ‘urban renewal,’ the city bulldozed and destroyed thousands and thousands of homes, primarily in Black, Japanese and Filipino neighborhoods,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who authored \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB593\">Senate Bill 593\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘San Francisco went through a very ugly period where in the name of ‘urban renewal,’ the city bulldozed and destroyed thousands and thousands of homes, primarily in Black, Japanese and Filipino neighborhoods.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> The bill aims to fund the production of nearly 6,000 affordable housing units that were destroyed during the mid-century redevelopment era in San Francisco’s Western Addition, Fillmore, Japantown and SoMa neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a horrific situation and San Francisco has a legal responsibility to replace the homes that were destroyed when redevelopment ended a decade ago,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 593 cleared the California Legislature on Wednesday and is now awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature. The bill would allow residual property tax dollars to remain in the city’s Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund, rather than be redistributed to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure could then issue bonds to construct or add 5,800 units of replacement housing that were never rebuilt after redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, there are between 500–900 units in the city’s own pipeline for affordable housing construction that could benefit from the new financing structure. The city will also solicit projects and developers that could maximize the number of new affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11960806 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homes at Freedom West, a housing cooperative, seen from the interior courtyard in the Fillmore District on Sept. 11, 2023. The property will be redeveloped in what is referred to as ‘Freedom West 2.0,’ with new buildings for current residents and community facilities. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are a number of housing projects in the works that could seek funding if they are approved. Among them is Freedom West cooperative in the Western Addition, which is currently working on a renovation and expansion project with the developer MacFarlane Partners to replace 382 co-op units and add 133 affordable homes to the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattie Scott is a longtime resident of the Western Addition and president of the Freedom West Housing Cooperative in San Francisco, which supports Wiener’s bill. She remembers growing up in the neighborhood before redevelopment cleared it out to make way for new expressways and shopping centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just wonderful being a teenager to have that experience with so much diversity,” Scott told KQED of the variety of businesses and restaurants near the Western Addition in the early 1960s. “Fillmore was the Harlem of the West at that time. You couldn’t wait to get to Fillmore Street with your families on any given day. There were Italian meat markets, Jewish delis and Japanese restaurants.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Fillmore was the Harlem of the West at that time. You couldn’t wait to get to Fillmore Street with your families on any given day. There were Italian meat markets, Jewish delis and Japanese restaurants.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Mattie Scott, president, Freedom West Housing Cooperative","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> When the U.S. federal government began implementing the National Housing Act of 1949, San Francisco’s Western Addition and Japantown were among the first areas selected for redevelopment in the name of addressing so-called “urban blight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make way for a widened Geary Boulevard, the government bulldozed thousands of homes in the area that were predominantly owned and lived in by Black, Filipino, Japanese and some Jewish residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, San Franciscans like Scott who remember the vibrant neighborhoods that were destroyed say the urgency to rebuild the lost homes is long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They called it urban renewal, but I call it urban removal,” Scott said. “All of a sudden, you just see your neighborhood just demolished, you know, homes demolished, Victorian houses demolished, whole communities. Grocery stores down the block where you go to eat with your family were no longer there. To me, as a young person, it was very devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families in nearby Japantown have passed on similar stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community had just returned from concentration camps during World War II, and a lot of businesses and homes had already been lost. Then redevelopment happened, so it was this one-two punch that really devastated Japantown,” said Jeremy Chan, a board member with the Japantown Task Force. “The creation of the Geary Expressway created this physical barrier that divided Japantown from our African American neighbors in the Fillmore, and we’re still struggling to repair and rebuild those connections to this day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11960803 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Chan (left) and Glynis Nakahara stand in a residential area of Japantown in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back then, the city promised to rebuild homes and give preference to families who had to flee. But it’s largely failed to follow through with promises to rebuild those homes, and only a small fraction of people have used their opportunity to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were forced to leave Japantown and then they were later unable to return either because they were priced out or because they ended up being disqualified for the certificates of preference they received,” Chan explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Redressing redevelopment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To address the displacement redevelopment caused, San Francisco and other cities have given preference for affordable housing to people who lost their homes and to their descendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1960s, San Francisco has distributed 6,957 “\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/dashboard-certificate-preference-eligible-waitlist-opportunities#how-to-use-the-dashboard\">certificates of preference\u003c/a>” to residents and descendants of residents who lost homes due to redevelopment, according to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. The certificates provide \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/dashboard-certificate-preference-eligible-waitlist-opportunities#how-to-use-the-dashboard\">priority for certain housing units\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But out of the nearly 7,000 certificates of preference issued by the city, less than 1,500 of those have been utilized as of Aug. 18, city data shows. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11957757","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1408881472-for-wp-1020x760.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Those who do want to use their certificate often face long wait lists. There are approximately 115,000 applicants wait-listed for the 28,500 public housing units eligible for the certificates, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to those 28,500 units, the city is also listing 1,274 home-ownership and rental units that certificate holders can apply for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Sept. 7, there were nine below-market-rate homeownership units available for certificate holders, and one rental unit available, according to data from the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 593 would increase the production of units that are eligible for the certificates and aims to prevent further displacement for families who are currently in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has actually, for a while, had this commitment to restore the units that were demolished during urban renewal, and this bill would provide some of the funding that’s required to help restore that,” said Sujata Srivastava, housing and planning director at the local public policy nonprofit, SPUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Japantown Peace Plaza in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But many families who were displaced during that era have left, establishing lives, businesses and communities elsewhere, as affordable housing in San Francisco has lagged to meet a growing demand. When homes and businesses were destroyed, trust also eroded between the city and the communities it forced out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an argument for thinking more expansively about what it might look like if you were really trying to help, especially Black and African American households that were displaced from redevelopment,” Srivastava said. “How do you actually think about correcting those harms?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of SB 593 don’t expect the bill to lead to a wave of migration back to San Francisco by families who were displaced decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is a hope that it can mitigate the housing crisis and acknowledge the ways that crisis falls disproportionately on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rethinking Reparations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s Reparations Task Force \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ch22-ca-reparations.pdf\">recommends giving preference to affordable housing, also known as “right to return” policies, for displaced African Americans (PDF)\u003c/a> as one of several ways to address lingering effects of racism and slavery on African Americans and broader society today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Predominantly white neighborhoods are that way for a clear reason: the history of racist housing policies,” said Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis, chair of the Geography Department at UC Berkeley and a member of California’s Reparations Task Force. “The only antidote to that is to create a justice-oriented housing policy. The first step is to give community members who were dispossessed a right to return.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We must face and rectify the wrongs of our City’s past and do right by those who were displaced. This policy will prioritize housing for those who have faced injustices, and restore the diversity of our community.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Lewis pointed to places like Evanston, Illinois, which in 2021 became the first U.S. city to issue reparations for slavery through housing grants to Black residents. He said the effort was well-intended, but more limited in scale and scope than what he and other racial justice advocates want to see in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, other cities are putting forward policies that tie reparations to housing, but with different mechanisms for getting there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the city of Berkeley adopted a \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AR5OmrYC8r7A%C3%89N2HFiUv4RJEsSIWGVj4VrP3fd706J0hSXkyL2DAt1mrdqsXUoz6OGtf13qdxu%C3%89asqGqDxGiyGc%3D/\">housing preference policy (PDF)\u003c/a> that prioritizes affordable housing for current and former Berkeley residents, along with their descendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s plan would prioritize people who were displaced because of BART construction, foreclosure anytime after 2005, or no-fault evictions and other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must face and rectify the wrongs of our City’s past and do right by those who were displaced,” Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín said in a press release after the policy was announced. “This policy will prioritize housing for those who have faced injustices, and restore the diversity of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some are skeptical of the idea. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on Bay Area Housing ","tag":"housing"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Historian Darrell Millner saw how his city of Portland, Oregon, sought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wweek.com/news/2022/05/25/the-city-of-portland-tried-to-undo-gentrification-black-portlanders-are-conflicted-about-the-results/\">slow gentrification and address redevelopment harms\u003c/a> by building new affordable housing to keep families in place and provide preference for housing to those who were displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program helped hundreds of lower-income residents lease subsidized apartments and at least 110 families buy homes, 94 of which were Black Portlanders, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/phb/nne-oversight/documents/n-ne-annual-report-2022/download\">city report (PDF)\u003c/a>. But some criticized the effort for having a relatively small impact compared to the damage that was done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad for the people who could find some decent housing in a decent part of town. But you haven’t replaced what was destroyed,” said Darrell Millner, professor emeritus of Black Studies at Portland State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This happened to so many communities and in so many areas here in the Bay Area. We are now shining a light of hope that we bring families back,” said Scott of the Freedom West Housing Cooperative. “This bill is going to help us in many ways to address those issues and allow working class families and seniors to be able to afford to stay in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11961026/thousands-sf-homes-destroyed-decades-ago-rebuilt-under-new-bill","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_3921","news_28272","news_30345","news_30652","news_27626","news_22210","news_33179","news_1775","news_23056","news_24794","news_38","news_1217","news_6544","news_33183"],"featImg":"news_11960807","label":"news"},"news_11952571":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11952571","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11952571","score":null,"sort":[1686263975000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-to-deploy-130-sheriffs-deputies-in-downtown-drug-crackdown","title":"San Francisco to Deploy 130 Sheriff's Deputies in Downtown Drug Crackdown","publishDate":1686263975,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San Francisco to Deploy 130 Sheriff’s Deputies in Downtown Drug Crackdown | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office is tasking its emergency unit with arresting and compelling treatment for people who use drugs or are intoxicated in public, city leaders announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan comes shortly after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950520/compassion-is-killing-people-london-breed-pushes-for-more-arrests-to-tackle-sfs-drug-crisis\">Mayor London Breed last month told the Board of Supervisors that “force” needs to be part of the city’s response to drug use\u003c/a>. The sheriff’s plan includes deploying 130 additional deputies to the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, two areas where drug use, sales and overdoses are concentrated in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputies will work overtime for a six-month deployment beginning this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many cases, individuals suffering from drug addiction only seek help when they hit their lowest point, and the sad truth for many is that the low point is incarceration,” Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said at a press conference Thursday morning outside City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emergency Services Unit at the sheriff’s office will work with the Mayor’s Office to increase arrests for drug sellers as well as people using drugs outdoors and in public settings, particularly those who are deemed to pose a threat to themselves or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man in an official uniform with a starred badge pinned to it speaks into an array of microphones from an outdoor lectern, flanked by law enforcement officers and others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff Paul Miyamoto speaks during a news conference outside City Hall Thursday morning. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement including the San Francisco Police Department, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948062/newsom-taps-chp-national-guard-to-fight-san-franciscos-fentanyl-crisis\">the California Highway Patrol and the National Guard\u003c/a> in recent months have renewed focus on the Tenderloin and SoMa, two areas that have become central to ongoing debates over how to respond to challenges around outdoor drug use and sales, homelessness and substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the solution is making sure we have enough law enforcement on the ground in the Tenderloin, South of Market and in the Civic Center area to make sure drug dealers understand that their behavior will not be tolerated any longer in this city and that those who are struggling with addiction get the help they so desperately need,” District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told reporters at Thursday’s press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public health experts have historically decried the notion put forward Thursday that jails can rehabilitate substance use disorders for many. And incarceration can make life much worse for some people seeking employment or housing upon release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fear the approach mimics tried-and-failed approaches to cracking down on drugs in the past, which led to outsized incarceration for members of Black and brown communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rounding up individuals for being under the influence is another war-on-drugs tactic that we know from decades of experience and research will not be effective in addressing our city’s public health crisis,” said San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju in a statement following Thursday’s press conference. “Our jails, which already subject people to frequent lockdowns, little contact with family, and no sunlight, are not well-equipped to treat individuals with substance use disorder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a purple suit speaks into an array of microphones from an outdoor lectern, flanked by law enforcement officers and others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins speaks during Thursday’s press conference. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Numerous studies show that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948421/newsoms-plan-to-crack-down-on-fentanyl-in-san-francisco-could-cause-more-harm-than-good-some-addiction-experts-say\">efforts to criminalize drug use can also lead to increased overdoses\u003c/a> once targeted operations subside, and even immediately after individual arrests themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Indianapolis, \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307329\">researchers found that opioid overdose deaths doubled within a 500-meter radius of each drug arrest\u003c/a>. “Elevated fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses were sustained over one, two and three weeks,” reads \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307329\">a report published June 7, 2023, in the \u003cem>American Journal of Public Health\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason for the uptick in overdoses, the paper explains, is that disrupting the drug supply can drive drug users to find new suppliers who may have tainted substances, and pushing people to use drugs alone or secretly can lead to more erratic drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Breed applauded arrests made on 25 people for public intoxication with drugs or alcohol in the Tenderloin and SoMa. But, \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/em>reported, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-mayor-breed-arrests-drug-dealers-treatment-18135871.php\">none of them accepted drug treatment upon release from jail\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='overdose,overdoses,fentanyl,fatal-overdoses,fentanyl-overdoses']Law enforcement officials on Thursday expressed awareness that arrests alone won’t fix the problematic drug use or crime trends. They suggested that it was part of a broader effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While it’s an unpopular stance to take, arresting and putting people in jail, it can be a critical gateway to help and needs to be a part of the multipronged approach,” Miyamoto said. “We’re not advocating for harsher punishments or increased incarceration for those who are struggling with harmful choices. There needs to be a multipronged approach to these problems, not just a single focus on harm reduction and treating this as a health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the six-month-long deployment will be focused on SoMa and the Tenderloin, the sheriff said it could potentially reach into other neighborhoods. The deputies will patrol in marked vehicles and on foot, Miyamoto said. In a press release, officials said that deputies “undergo extensive, specialized training for handling situations that require intervention for destructive or criminal behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest push to criminalize drug use in the Tenderloin and SoMa comes amid a staffing shortage in both SFPD and the Sheriff’s Office. Also on Thursday, city leaders held a hearing on those staffing challenges, for which some have called for additional funding to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be funded properly. We have to be staffed properly, and we definitely are working toward getting in that direction,” Police Chief Bill Scott said Thursday at the press conference. “But that doesn’t happen without our elected officials supporting us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Billy Cruz contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Mayor London Breed has said that 'force' must be part of the city’s response to outdoor drug use and dealing.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1686267944,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":963},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco to Deploy 130 Sheriff's Deputies in Downtown Drug Crackdown | KQED","description":"Mayor London Breed has said that 'force' must be part of the city’s response to outdoor drug use and dealing.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"San Francisco to Deploy 130 Sheriff's Deputies in Downtown Drug Crackdown","datePublished":"2023-06-08T22:39:35.000Z","dateModified":"2023-06-08T23:45:44.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11952571/san-francisco-to-deploy-130-sheriffs-deputies-in-downtown-drug-crackdown","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office is tasking its emergency unit with arresting and compelling treatment for people who use drugs or are intoxicated in public, city leaders announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan comes shortly after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950520/compassion-is-killing-people-london-breed-pushes-for-more-arrests-to-tackle-sfs-drug-crisis\">Mayor London Breed last month told the Board of Supervisors that “force” needs to be part of the city’s response to drug use\u003c/a>. The sheriff’s plan includes deploying 130 additional deputies to the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, two areas where drug use, sales and overdoses are concentrated in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputies will work overtime for a six-month deployment beginning this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many cases, individuals suffering from drug addiction only seek help when they hit their lowest point, and the sad truth for many is that the low point is incarceration,” Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said at a press conference Thursday morning outside City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emergency Services Unit at the sheriff’s office will work with the Mayor’s Office to increase arrests for drug sellers as well as people using drugs outdoors and in public settings, particularly those who are deemed to pose a threat to themselves or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man in an official uniform with a starred badge pinned to it speaks into an array of microphones from an outdoor lectern, flanked by law enforcement officers and others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff Paul Miyamoto speaks during a news conference outside City Hall Thursday morning. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement including the San Francisco Police Department, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948062/newsom-taps-chp-national-guard-to-fight-san-franciscos-fentanyl-crisis\">the California Highway Patrol and the National Guard\u003c/a> in recent months have renewed focus on the Tenderloin and SoMa, two areas that have become central to ongoing debates over how to respond to challenges around outdoor drug use and sales, homelessness and substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the solution is making sure we have enough law enforcement on the ground in the Tenderloin, South of Market and in the Civic Center area to make sure drug dealers understand that their behavior will not be tolerated any longer in this city and that those who are struggling with addiction get the help they so desperately need,” District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told reporters at Thursday’s press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public health experts have historically decried the notion put forward Thursday that jails can rehabilitate substance use disorders for many. And incarceration can make life much worse for some people seeking employment or housing upon release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fear the approach mimics tried-and-failed approaches to cracking down on drugs in the past, which led to outsized incarceration for members of Black and brown communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rounding up individuals for being under the influence is another war-on-drugs tactic that we know from decades of experience and research will not be effective in addressing our city’s public health crisis,” said San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju in a statement following Thursday’s press conference. “Our jails, which already subject people to frequent lockdowns, little contact with family, and no sunlight, are not well-equipped to treat individuals with substance use disorder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a purple suit speaks into an array of microphones from an outdoor lectern, flanked by law enforcement officers and others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins speaks during Thursday’s press conference. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Numerous studies show that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948421/newsoms-plan-to-crack-down-on-fentanyl-in-san-francisco-could-cause-more-harm-than-good-some-addiction-experts-say\">efforts to criminalize drug use can also lead to increased overdoses\u003c/a> once targeted operations subside, and even immediately after individual arrests themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Indianapolis, \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307329\">researchers found that opioid overdose deaths doubled within a 500-meter radius of each drug arrest\u003c/a>. “Elevated fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses were sustained over one, two and three weeks,” reads \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307329\">a report published June 7, 2023, in the \u003cem>American Journal of Public Health\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason for the uptick in overdoses, the paper explains, is that disrupting the drug supply can drive drug users to find new suppliers who may have tainted substances, and pushing people to use drugs alone or secretly can lead to more erratic drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Breed applauded arrests made on 25 people for public intoxication with drugs or alcohol in the Tenderloin and SoMa. But, \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/em>reported, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-mayor-breed-arrests-drug-dealers-treatment-18135871.php\">none of them accepted drug treatment upon release from jail\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"overdose,overdoses,fentanyl,fatal-overdoses,fentanyl-overdoses"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Law enforcement officials on Thursday expressed awareness that arrests alone won’t fix the problematic drug use or crime trends. They suggested that it was part of a broader effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While it’s an unpopular stance to take, arresting and putting people in jail, it can be a critical gateway to help and needs to be a part of the multipronged approach,” Miyamoto said. “We’re not advocating for harsher punishments or increased incarceration for those who are struggling with harmful choices. There needs to be a multipronged approach to these problems, not just a single focus on harm reduction and treating this as a health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the six-month-long deployment will be focused on SoMa and the Tenderloin, the sheriff said it could potentially reach into other neighborhoods. The deputies will patrol in marked vehicles and on foot, Miyamoto said. In a press release, officials said that deputies “undergo extensive, specialized training for handling situations that require intervention for destructive or criminal behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest push to criminalize drug use in the Tenderloin and SoMa comes amid a staffing shortage in both SFPD and the Sheriff’s Office. Also on Thursday, city leaders held a hearing on those staffing challenges, for which some have called for additional funding to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to be funded properly. We have to be staffed properly, and we definitely are working toward getting in that direction,” Police Chief Bill Scott said Thursday at the press conference. “But that doesn’t happen without our elected officials supporting us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Billy Cruz contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11952571/san-francisco-to-deploy-130-sheriffs-deputies-in-downtown-drug-crackdown","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_6188","news_28250","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_31298","news_21536","news_25703","news_31771","news_31494","news_27626","news_23051","news_29524","news_6931","news_22661","news_29746","news_1977","news_38","news_6544","news_31074","news_3181"],"featImg":"news_11952545","label":"news"},"news_11948421":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11948421","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11948421","score":null,"sort":[1683201643000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"newsoms-plan-to-crack-down-on-fentanyl-in-san-francisco-could-cause-more-harm-than-good-some-addiction-experts-say","title":"Newsom's Plan to Crack Down on Fentanyl in San Francisco Could Cause More Harm Than Good, Some Addiction Experts Say","publishDate":1683201643,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Newsom’s Plan to Crack Down on Fentanyl in San Francisco Could Cause More Harm Than Good, Some Addiction Experts Say | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor London Breed are doubling down on law enforcement to get a grip on drug-related challenges in San Francisco’s city core.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addiction experts, however, say that the city and state’s latest effort repeats tough-on-crime tactics and rhetoric that have not succeeded in curbing drug dealing in the long run, and at times have led to spikes in overdose deaths when the intervention ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, these crackdowns on the drug supply don’t work as well as we want them to,” said Daniel Ciccarone, professor in addiction medicine at UCSF. “When we say we want to crack down on the supply and get more people into treatment, if you don’t do that carefully, the only thing you do is add to stigma and barriers to treatment. That is what the evidence shows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased police presence could initially deter drug use and dealing. Officials did not state how long the operation would last, however, and that could also lead to other unintended consequences, said Vitka Eisen, CEO of the nonprofit HealthRight 360.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you increase enforcement on the street and pressure the supply side, what often results is much more chaotic drug use patterns in which people are more desperate to get drugs, prices go up, they use in a less safe way,” Eisen said. “So one of the unintended consequences of increased enforcement is increased overdoses.”[aside postID=news_11948062 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS28905_GettyImages-678967-qut-1020x701.jpg']Starting May 1, Newsom is sending additional California Highway Patrol officers into the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, where the majority of overdose deaths have occurred in recent years. There are currently 75 CHP officers assigned to the area, and that could go up to 84, according to CHP officials. Fourteen members of the California National Guard will also work to train San Francisco police in identifying and responding to potential trafficking cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and Breed stated that their focus in San Francisco is around drug dealers and traffickers, not drug users themselves. But there is often overlap in those populations, according to addiction researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a false dichotomy here in terms of people who are drug merchants and people who are using drugs. You know, it can often be the same people. The people who use drugs might actually be selling or trading drugs as well,” said Alex Kral, an epidemiologist at the independent nonprofit research institute RTI International. “If you’re simply doing an intervention to try to remove people who sell drugs, you’re actually also hurting people who use drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both experts point to how, earlier this year, overdose rates in San Francisco rapidly increased shortly following the closure of the Tenderloin Center, a drop-in social services center and safe consumption site that operated for 11 months. Trained \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/reducing-fatal-and-non-fatal-overdoses-tenderloin#overdoses-reversed-at-the-tenderloin-center\">staff at the facility reversed 333 overdoses in 11 months\u003c/a> before the facility closed, according to city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin Center opened in January 2022 as part of a wider intervention for the neighborhood that aimed to curb outdoor drug dealing and use, clean city sidewalks, get more people into drug treatment and reduce overdose deaths. The temporary emergency operation lasted 90 days and the center stayed open for 11 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without a replacement (for the Tenderloin Center), and then to instead focus on policing people, it’s no surprise to me that there are more overdoses this year than last year,” Kral said. “There’s no surprise to me that things will get worse with this approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Residents say help is needed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s intervention comes alongside serious concerns about safety in the Tenderloin and in SoMa and complaints about street conditions that some feel are out of control. Residents who spoke to KQED said they are desperate for solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Thornton, 32, lives at Trinity Place in SoMa and said he has been held up at knifepoint twice outside his building. He supports the additional law enforcement resources coming into the neighborhood.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Vitka Eisen, CEO, HealthRight 360\"]‘[O]ne of the unintended consequences of increased enforcement is increased overdoses.’[/pullquote]“The police recommendation to me when I got a knife pulled on me was to not walk outside and not be on the sidewalk. I mean, wow,” said Thornton outside his building on May 1, the day the latest operation was set to begin. “I have not seen any National Guard yet, but I’m very excited for them to come if they are coming, because this block in particular is just absolutely wild and no one seems to do anything about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley Hampton splits her time between her home in the city of Richmond, where her kids and grandmother live, and a room on Jones Street in the Tenderloin to be closer to her son, who was recently released from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She too welcomed the additional attention to the neighborhood, but was skeptical that it would lead to lasting change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out here every night making sure that no one is in the corner overdosing or drowning from their alcohol,” she said. Sending in CHP “can make a difference only if they include the community that it wants to change. People have their vices, but we don’t give them a chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hampton regularly shows friends and neighbors in the area how to administer Narcan, a naloxone nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose, and said that the community has learned to look out for itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One needs to take only a 20-minute stroll in the Tenderloin to know there’s something amiss. And I understand the political and administrative and even civic call for law and order,” said Ciccarone. “But the drug supply is unbelievably resilient in America. You try to curtail it like a snake and you cut off its head, but it just grows two heads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How other places are responding to fentanyl\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Places outside California are now trying strategies to reduce the demand for illicit drugs. Canada, which is also grappling with fentanyl, opened ATM-like machines that can dispense safe amounts of opioids in controlled settings, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The machines helped reduce overdose deaths and drug dealing by regulating what is in the supply, and by limiting the demand for users to buy drugs illegally. The Canadian government in 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/news/2021/03/government-of-canada-supports-expansion-of-innovative-safer-supply-project-to-operate-in-four-cities-across-canada.html\">expanded the service program to four cities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 200 safe consumption sites also operate globally in more than a dozen countries, including France, Denmark, Canada, Australia, Switzerland and others. The facilities offer a space where people can use drugs and trained staff can reverse an overdose if it occurs, while also connecting people with other health and social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York City has found early success with reversing overdoses and reducing public drug use by operating two safe consumption sites at a private nonprofit called OnPoint NYC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Rhode Island became the first state to legalize supervised drug consumption services, and now has a state-approved plan to open a site in Providence in early 2024. The state has allocated $2.6 million from opioid settlement funds to pay for the first year of operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Breed has said she supports opening safe consumption sites and has support from the Board of Supervisors. But last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation that would have allowed sites to operate on a pilot basis in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco plans to move forward with opening a safe consumption site nonetheless, using a model borrowed from New York City, where a nonprofit pays for and operates the overdose prevention services.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alex Kral, epidemiologist, RTI International\"]‘Do you want to spend your money on jails … or do you want to spend your money on these sites that can actually help people?’[/pullquote]But those efforts have hit delays because the nonprofits that want to provide safe consumption say they can’t afford to do so without help from the city. San Francisco has a projected $130 million in funding coming in through settlements with pharmacies, drug manufacturers and distributors for their role in the overdose crisis, and the money is earmarked specifically for overdose prevention, such as purchasing and distributing Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney David Chiu has not yet agreed to use the funds for supervised consumption sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only is the U.S. not up to international standards on overdose prevention, but San Francisco and California as a whole are not up to national standards,” Ciccarone said, referring to the steps that some states are taking to address fentanyl overdoses and street-level problems related to drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/can-a-new-san-francisco-drug-testing-program-help-keep-users-safe/article_f289ddaa-4a53-11ed-a8ae-879e236a7de2.html\">San Francisco has been piloting a drug testing program\u003c/a>, but on a small scale. The idea is to offer people a chance to test what is in their supply and open conversations about safer use and even treatment. The city has also ramped up distribution of Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we need here is leadership, not complaining and pointing fingers and draconian responses. We need courage, which combines both the heart-centered approach and bold stances that are not same old, same old,” he said. “That doesn’t work in the fentanyl epidemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A rock and a hard place\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California Legislature is currently debating nearly 30 bills introduced this year that aim to combat the fentanyl crisis as overdose deaths statewide have also ticked up. Some of the bills seek to ramp up prison sentences for fentanyl dealers, while others focus on education and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who represents the SoMa neighborhood, has repeatedly called for increased police presence to deter drug use and dealing.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11947448,science_1982214,news_11945418\"]“San Francisco is on the precipice of a potentially catastrophic police staffing shortage, and there are too many public safety problems we’ll be helpless to solve if we don’t start solving SFPD’s understaffing crisis first,” Dorsey stated earlier this year when \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/23.01.23_Dorsey%20pushes%20police%20recruitment%20bonus%20matching%20policy%20to%20avoid%20%E2%80%98catastrophic%E2%80%99%20SFPD%20staffing%20shortage.pdf\">advocating for police recruitment bonuses (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju said he fears that would lead to negative outcomes similar to the crack cocaine and heroin epidemics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know from 50 years of the war on drugs that the people who are likely to be targeted by any forthcoming operations will be in low-income and Black and Brown communities, including those who have been trafficked or coerced into the drug trade under threat to themselves and their families,” Raju said in a press release after the new plan was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providing housing and places where people can leave the street for safer settings to use drugs can be closer to the win-win politicians are looking for, Kral said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an economic incentive, too, Kral added. His research on local public health and public safety spending estimates that \u003ca href=\"https://www.rti.org/impact/cost-benefit-analysis-opening-safe-consumption-site-san-francisco\">the city could save a minimum of $2.6 million\u003c/a> if it were to offer places where people could use drugs more safely and out of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you want to spend your money on jails,” he said, “or do you want to spend your money on these sites that can actually help people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'There is a false dichotomy here in terms of people who are drug merchants and people who are using drugs,' said independent researcher Alex Kral. 'You know, it can often be the same people.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1683674054,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1942},"headData":{"title":"Newsom's Plan to Crack Down on Fentanyl in San Francisco Could Cause More Harm Than Good, Some Addiction Experts Say | KQED","description":"'There is a false dichotomy here in terms of people who are drug merchants and people who are using drugs,' said independent researcher Alex Kral. 'You know, it can often be the same people.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Newsom's Plan to Crack Down on Fentanyl in San Francisco Could Cause More Harm Than Good, Some Addiction Experts Say","datePublished":"2023-05-04T12:00:43.000Z","dateModified":"2023-05-09T23:14:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11948421/newsoms-plan-to-crack-down-on-fentanyl-in-san-francisco-could-cause-more-harm-than-good-some-addiction-experts-say","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor London Breed are doubling down on law enforcement to get a grip on drug-related challenges in San Francisco’s city core.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addiction experts, however, say that the city and state’s latest effort repeats tough-on-crime tactics and rhetoric that have not succeeded in curbing drug dealing in the long run, and at times have led to spikes in overdose deaths when the intervention ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, these crackdowns on the drug supply don’t work as well as we want them to,” said Daniel Ciccarone, professor in addiction medicine at UCSF. “When we say we want to crack down on the supply and get more people into treatment, if you don’t do that carefully, the only thing you do is add to stigma and barriers to treatment. That is what the evidence shows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased police presence could initially deter drug use and dealing. Officials did not state how long the operation would last, however, and that could also lead to other unintended consequences, said Vitka Eisen, CEO of the nonprofit HealthRight 360.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you increase enforcement on the street and pressure the supply side, what often results is much more chaotic drug use patterns in which people are more desperate to get drugs, prices go up, they use in a less safe way,” Eisen said. “So one of the unintended consequences of increased enforcement is increased overdoses.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11948062","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS28905_GettyImages-678967-qut-1020x701.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Starting May 1, Newsom is sending additional California Highway Patrol officers into the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, where the majority of overdose deaths have occurred in recent years. There are currently 75 CHP officers assigned to the area, and that could go up to 84, according to CHP officials. Fourteen members of the California National Guard will also work to train San Francisco police in identifying and responding to potential trafficking cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and Breed stated that their focus in San Francisco is around drug dealers and traffickers, not drug users themselves. But there is often overlap in those populations, according to addiction researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a false dichotomy here in terms of people who are drug merchants and people who are using drugs. You know, it can often be the same people. The people who use drugs might actually be selling or trading drugs as well,” said Alex Kral, an epidemiologist at the independent nonprofit research institute RTI International. “If you’re simply doing an intervention to try to remove people who sell drugs, you’re actually also hurting people who use drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both experts point to how, earlier this year, overdose rates in San Francisco rapidly increased shortly following the closure of the Tenderloin Center, a drop-in social services center and safe consumption site that operated for 11 months. Trained \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/reducing-fatal-and-non-fatal-overdoses-tenderloin#overdoses-reversed-at-the-tenderloin-center\">staff at the facility reversed 333 overdoses in 11 months\u003c/a> before the facility closed, according to city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin Center opened in January 2022 as part of a wider intervention for the neighborhood that aimed to curb outdoor drug dealing and use, clean city sidewalks, get more people into drug treatment and reduce overdose deaths. The temporary emergency operation lasted 90 days and the center stayed open for 11 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without a replacement (for the Tenderloin Center), and then to instead focus on policing people, it’s no surprise to me that there are more overdoses this year than last year,” Kral said. “There’s no surprise to me that things will get worse with this approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Residents say help is needed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s intervention comes alongside serious concerns about safety in the Tenderloin and in SoMa and complaints about street conditions that some feel are out of control. Residents who spoke to KQED said they are desperate for solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Thornton, 32, lives at Trinity Place in SoMa and said he has been held up at knifepoint twice outside his building. He supports the additional law enforcement resources coming into the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘[O]ne of the unintended consequences of increased enforcement is increased overdoses.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Vitka Eisen, CEO, HealthRight 360","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The police recommendation to me when I got a knife pulled on me was to not walk outside and not be on the sidewalk. I mean, wow,” said Thornton outside his building on May 1, the day the latest operation was set to begin. “I have not seen any National Guard yet, but I’m very excited for them to come if they are coming, because this block in particular is just absolutely wild and no one seems to do anything about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley Hampton splits her time between her home in the city of Richmond, where her kids and grandmother live, and a room on Jones Street in the Tenderloin to be closer to her son, who was recently released from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She too welcomed the additional attention to the neighborhood, but was skeptical that it would lead to lasting change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out here every night making sure that no one is in the corner overdosing or drowning from their alcohol,” she said. Sending in CHP “can make a difference only if they include the community that it wants to change. People have their vices, but we don’t give them a chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hampton regularly shows friends and neighbors in the area how to administer Narcan, a naloxone nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose, and said that the community has learned to look out for itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One needs to take only a 20-minute stroll in the Tenderloin to know there’s something amiss. And I understand the political and administrative and even civic call for law and order,” said Ciccarone. “But the drug supply is unbelievably resilient in America. You try to curtail it like a snake and you cut off its head, but it just grows two heads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How other places are responding to fentanyl\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Places outside California are now trying strategies to reduce the demand for illicit drugs. Canada, which is also grappling with fentanyl, opened ATM-like machines that can dispense safe amounts of opioids in controlled settings, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The machines helped reduce overdose deaths and drug dealing by regulating what is in the supply, and by limiting the demand for users to buy drugs illegally. The Canadian government in 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/news/2021/03/government-of-canada-supports-expansion-of-innovative-safer-supply-project-to-operate-in-four-cities-across-canada.html\">expanded the service program to four cities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 200 safe consumption sites also operate globally in more than a dozen countries, including France, Denmark, Canada, Australia, Switzerland and others. The facilities offer a space where people can use drugs and trained staff can reverse an overdose if it occurs, while also connecting people with other health and social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York City has found early success with reversing overdoses and reducing public drug use by operating two safe consumption sites at a private nonprofit called OnPoint NYC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Rhode Island became the first state to legalize supervised drug consumption services, and now has a state-approved plan to open a site in Providence in early 2024. The state has allocated $2.6 million from opioid settlement funds to pay for the first year of operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Breed has said she supports opening safe consumption sites and has support from the Board of Supervisors. But last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation that would have allowed sites to operate on a pilot basis in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco plans to move forward with opening a safe consumption site nonetheless, using a model borrowed from New York City, where a nonprofit pays for and operates the overdose prevention services.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Do you want to spend your money on jails … or do you want to spend your money on these sites that can actually help people?’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Alex Kral, epidemiologist, RTI International","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But those efforts have hit delays because the nonprofits that want to provide safe consumption say they can’t afford to do so without help from the city. San Francisco has a projected $130 million in funding coming in through settlements with pharmacies, drug manufacturers and distributors for their role in the overdose crisis, and the money is earmarked specifically for overdose prevention, such as purchasing and distributing Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney David Chiu has not yet agreed to use the funds for supervised consumption sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only is the U.S. not up to international standards on overdose prevention, but San Francisco and California as a whole are not up to national standards,” Ciccarone said, referring to the steps that some states are taking to address fentanyl overdoses and street-level problems related to drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/can-a-new-san-francisco-drug-testing-program-help-keep-users-safe/article_f289ddaa-4a53-11ed-a8ae-879e236a7de2.html\">San Francisco has been piloting a drug testing program\u003c/a>, but on a small scale. The idea is to offer people a chance to test what is in their supply and open conversations about safer use and even treatment. The city has also ramped up distribution of Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we need here is leadership, not complaining and pointing fingers and draconian responses. We need courage, which combines both the heart-centered approach and bold stances that are not same old, same old,” he said. “That doesn’t work in the fentanyl epidemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A rock and a hard place\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California Legislature is currently debating nearly 30 bills introduced this year that aim to combat the fentanyl crisis as overdose deaths statewide have also ticked up. Some of the bills seek to ramp up prison sentences for fentanyl dealers, while others focus on education and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who represents the SoMa neighborhood, has repeatedly called for increased police presence to deter drug use and dealing.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11947448,science_1982214,news_11945418"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“San Francisco is on the precipice of a potentially catastrophic police staffing shortage, and there are too many public safety problems we’ll be helpless to solve if we don’t start solving SFPD’s understaffing crisis first,” Dorsey stated earlier this year when \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/23.01.23_Dorsey%20pushes%20police%20recruitment%20bonus%20matching%20policy%20to%20avoid%20%E2%80%98catastrophic%E2%80%99%20SFPD%20staffing%20shortage.pdf\">advocating for police recruitment bonuses (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju said he fears that would lead to negative outcomes similar to the crack cocaine and heroin epidemics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know from 50 years of the war on drugs that the people who are likely to be targeted by any forthcoming operations will be in low-income and Black and Brown communities, including those who have been trafficked or coerced into the drug trade under threat to themselves and their families,” Raju said in a press release after the new plan was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providing housing and places where people can leave the street for safer settings to use drugs can be closer to the win-win politicians are looking for, Kral said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an economic incentive, too, Kral added. His research on local public health and public safety spending estimates that \u003ca href=\"https://www.rti.org/impact/cost-benefit-analysis-opening-safe-consumption-site-san-francisco\">the city could save a minimum of $2.6 million\u003c/a> if it were to offer places where people could use drugs more safely and out of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you want to spend your money on jails,” he said, “or do you want to spend your money on these sites that can actually help people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11948421/newsoms-plan-to-crack-down-on-fentanyl-in-san-francisco-could-cause-more-harm-than-good-some-addiction-experts-say","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_26003","news_27626","news_23051","news_29524","news_16","news_6931","news_29747","news_17968","news_38","news_6544","news_3181","news_32517"],"featImg":"news_11948437","label":"news"},"news_11837511":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11837511","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11837511","score":null,"sort":[1599863617000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"whats-lost-in-bay-area-asian-culture-when-sf-eviction-moratorium-ends","title":"What’s Lost in Bay Area Asian Culture When SF Eviction Moratorium Ends?","publishDate":1599863617,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This report contains a clarification.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:10 p.m., Sept. 29:\u003c/strong> After extending San Francisco's commercial eviction moratorium earlier this month until Sept. 30, Mayor London Breed has now extended the moratorium for another 60 days, until Nov. 30, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBefore the pandemic, Tilly Tsang, owner of Washington Bakery and Restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown, says breakfast was always the busiest. Each morning, a rotation of regular customers would enter the restaurant, order their usual – sometimes a bun or a pastry from the bakery counter – and sit down to survey who else from the neighborhood was around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people, mostly older people, come every day to sit down and just have a cup of coffee, or a cup of \u003ci>lai chai,\u003c/i>” Tsang said. “They just want to see if they know anybody so they can chat, chat, chat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lai chai,\u003c/i> or milk tea, is one of the many Hong Kong staples that Tsang has offered at her restaurant, a local favorite, for over two decades, along with their beloved baked pork chop rice plates and salt and pepper chicken wings. Her loyal customers include Chinatown residents who live in single-room occupancy hotels (SROs). They treat Tsang’s restaurant, and other immigrant and family-owned businesses, as an essential place to catch up and socialize with one another because many of their cramped buildings lack common areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the COVID-19 pandemic, small business owners like Tsang are facing the devastating reality that many will not survive. Tens of thousands have already permanently closed in the United States, and it is uncertain when another round of federal government assistance will arrive. Aid from the federal Paycheck Protection Program has largely run out for those who could get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction moratoriums have prevented more San Francisco businesses from folding, but the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://oewd.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Guidance%20Temporary%20Moratorium%20on%20Commercial%20Evictions_v8.12.2020%20expires%209.14.20.pdf\">commercial eviction moratorium\u003c/a> ends on Sept. 14. That means commercial tenants will have until Monday to pay back missed rent payments – which for many add up to six months rent – or else landlords can start evicting them as early as October. Locals fear that once commercial evictions begin, those who depend on the businesses for jobs, culture and community will be displaced, and the cultural landscape of San Francisco will be irreparably harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.perkinscoie.com/en/professionals/allan-e-low.html\">Allan Low\u003c/a> is working pro bono to assist small business owners in the city’s Asian cultural districts. He says without immediate steps on both the federal and local level to address the threat of permanent closures, “We’re going to be faced with a tidal wave of evictions, bankruptcies and retail landscapes that are just going to be completely obliterated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that could mean devastation to neighborhoods that have largely defined San Francisco’s unique culture, including Chinatown, Japantown and the city’s newest cultural district, SOMA Pilipinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ripple effects will hit the larger Bay Area Asian Pacific Islander American population that depend on these hubs for a sense of belonging, essential services and cultural empowerment – especially in a region that has already faced rapid gentrification and demographic shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>In Chinatown: Holding Space for One Another\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike its more affluent neighbors in Russian Hill and North Beach, Chinatown has been able to stave off years of housing and development pressures thanks to its strong community, tenant organizing and zoning restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin says the neighborhood has benefited from its “incredibly rich fabric of community-based organizations” such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/\">Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC)\u003c/a>. The nonprofit housing organization quickly leapt into action at the start of the pandemic with its short-term \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816116/chinatown-housing-group-feeds-vulnerable-sro-tenants-by-reviving-legacy-restaurants\">Feed + Fuel Chinatown program\u003c/a>. The program immediately mobilized Chinatown restaurants to feed vulnerable SRO restaurants and the elderly. It allowed restaurant owners to hire back laid off employees and pay rents, but it ended in mid-July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837566\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837566\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44732_010_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44732_010_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44732_010_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44732_010_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44732_010_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44732_010_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea Hung works to package meals for a Chinatown Community Development Center program that provides meal delivery for for seniors and residents in local SROs or public housing during COVID-19, at the Washington Bakery and Restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown on Sept. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some restaurants, like Tsang’s, are still participating in a similar effort through the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/health-food/groceries-and-meals/great-plates-delivered-meal-program\">Great Plates program\u003c/a>, but most say they are only generating about 25% of their regular revenue, a CCDC restaurant survey revealed. Nearly 60% of restaurant jobs have been eliminated and less than a quarter of the Chinatown restaurants surveyed say they can maintain their businesses; the rest are either unsure, barely surviving or have only months left to stay open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though shelter-in-place orders were announced in mid-March, the painful drop in business started in January for Frank Chui, co-owner of the Hang Ah Tea Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a fall-off-the-cliff kind of decline,” he said. “It wasn’t slow. It was immediately – boom, within a week, 70% to 90% drop, like no business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area APIA businesses, not just in Chinatown, were hit first – as early as December 2019 – because of rising xenophobia and anti-Asian discrimination, which motivated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11803203/pelosi-lunches-in-sf-chinatown-lending-support-to-businesses-amid-coronavirus-fears\">politicians to encourage patronage of Chinatown businesses\u003c/a> before San Francisco issued its shelter-in-place orders.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chelsea Hung, Washington Bakery & Restaurant\"]'It becomes this domino effect ... It’s not just the loss of a business, it’s the loss of a whole community.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chui says the closure of Hang Ah Tea Room, which was established in 1920, would mean the permanent loss of an important piece of San Francisco Chinatown and American history: “It’s the first dim sum house in America.” Chui acquired the restaurant in 2014 and had hopes of celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owning the restaurant was an opportunity for Chui to help protect part of Chinatown’s legacy; the restaurant has generations of customers that make visiting Hang Ah Tea Room an annual tradition. But the challenges of COVID-19 has forced him to cut more than half of his staff – all recent immigrants who live in Chinatown. Chui says they have all been able to collect unemployment benefits after the layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tsang’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbrsf.com/\">Washington Bakery and Restaurant\u003c/a>, some employees have stayed on for decades. Keeping the restaurant in the family is a priority for Tsang and her daughter Chelsea Hung. Hung moved back from New York in 2018 after working in tech to help out with the restaurant because she couldn’t bear the thought of letting the business go when her mother contemplated retiring a couple years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's up to our generation to pay it forward and continue the community we grew up in,” Hung said. “It's more than the restaurant, but also for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She explains that the businesses are intricately linked to a unique commercial ecosystem that helps make Chinatown a complete neighborhood: “We use a lot of local vendors, and if we had to shut down those vendors would be affected, too,” Hung said. “It becomes this domino effect. ... It’s not just the loss of a business, it’s the loss of a whole community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837560\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44703_029_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_08302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44703_029_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_08302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44703_029_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_08302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44703_029_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_08302020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44703_029_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_08302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44703_029_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_08302020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As apart of the 'Shared Spaces' program, sections of Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown are temporarily closed to traffic on Aug. 30, 2020. The street closure, every Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m, allows pedestrians more space and restaurants to open for outdoor dining.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is trying to help struggling Chinatown businesses by encouraging restaurants to participate in outdoor dining. While the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/shared-spaces\">Shared Spaces program \u003c/a>had already shut down a stretch of Grant Street – the corridor of Chinatown most known for its tourist souvenir shops – for outdoor dining, it has primarily been utilized by outside visitors and tourists who have slowly begun to return to Chinatown. Hoping to loop in more restaurants, especially ones that serve locals, CCDC and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce started providing grants and technical assistance to merchants, such as securing barricades to partition an outdoor dining area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hung says the program has helped Washington Cafe and Restaurant, and the effort has slowly welcomed back their usual regulars who have happily found an outdoor alternative for the morning \u003ci>lai chai\u003c/i>. “They’re happy about that but they’re also facing their own challenges of how to social distance, but also be active and still live their life,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Hung says their landlord, who also owns a business in Chinatown, has accommodated delayed rent payments for now, she still has to pay several months’ in full, and it’s an anxiety-inducing reality that is sinking in for businesses across the city as the eviction moratorium is scheduled to end on Sept. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837567\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44739_017_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44739_017_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44739_017_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44739_017_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44739_017_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44739_017_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jade Zhu takes orders at outdoor tables at the Washington Bakery and Restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown on Sept. 2, 2020.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>In Japantown: Two Landlords Determine the Fate of Dozens\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the threat of commercial evictions in Chinatown is imminent, it may be blunted by the fact that building ownership in the neighborhood is more diversified compared to others. Supervisor Peskin says that because many of its buildings are owned by family associations, for example, that are not “entirely motivated by money and rent,” he believes businesses in other neighborhoods face a graver risk of permanently closing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such neighborhood is Japantown where the fate of dozens of small businesses in the East and West sides of the Japan Center mall – the cultural district’s main commercial center – is in the hands of just two landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837573\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Japntown Peace Plaza on Sept. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the start of the pandemic, the closure of the two-building indoor mall has severely impacted the more than 50 businesses inside, which are a mix of mom-and-pop shops and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the rent, businesses must pay the common area maintenance fees that have more than doubled for some tenants since a turnover in property management in 2018. Adding to tenants’ woes has been the total lack of response to requests for future rent relief structure on the part of one particular landlord, Kinokuniya Bookstores of America, which makes negotiating a deal impossible, says Diane Matsuda, a staff attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://www.apilegaloutreach.org/\">Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach (APILO)\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest challenge here is that you have two really big mega landlords and those mega landlords control a lot of the cultural and economic hub of Japantown,” Matsuda says. “Should they not want to negotiate or have any kind of rent abatement ... you’re really talking about us losing literally a whole ethnic community that has been here since the start of the 19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matsuda and Low, who is also fighting for Chinatown business owners, have been representing nearly 40 Japan Center tenants in total, many of whom are native Japanese speakers with limited English proficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don't have to just be the quiet Americans that I think the property manager wants them to be,” Matsuda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837577\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44765_046_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44765_046_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44765_046_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44765_046_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44765_046_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44765_046_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Japan Center East Mall on Sept. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One such tenant is Ryan Kimura, who owns Pika Pika on the Kinokuniya side of the mall. Since 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pikapikasf.com/\">Pika Pika\u003c/a> has been a specialty store that features \u003ci>purikura\u003c/i>, or Japanese sticker photo booths, which is often frequented by young teens and families. The photos are a popular Japanese phenomenon that Kimura wanted to bring to the U.S. after living in Japan for several years. It’s an in-person and unique social experience that has made it impossible for the business to reopen during the pandemic. Despite no revenue, Pika Pika continues to receive monthly invoices for rent and services, according to Kimura, who says he and his family are now leaning towards closing up the 14-year-old shop for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the businesses, like Pika Pika, highlight unique aspects of Japanese culture, from gardening knowledge to selling products that would otherwise only be found in Japan. For the tenants, the business of sharing Japanese culture and traditions is a deeply personal passion – one that now stands to be lost if rent negotiations do not take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, a coalition of Japantown mall tenants expressed their concerns over high common-area maintenance charges that dramatically increased since Davis Property Management took over management of the Kinokuniya Building in 2018. Kimura and Matsuda say some of the tenants have seen over a 100% increase in the fees and that some are paying more in these charges than in rent itself.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Diane Matsuda, Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach\"]'You’re really talking about us losing literally a whole ethnic community that has been here since the start of the 19th century.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has caused a lot of friction within our mall and a lot of tenants are upset about it and the lack of transparency,” says Kimura. “We send multiple emails, letters to our property managers and landlords and have heard nothing back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Kinokuniya’s attorneys for this story were unsuccessful, but Kirsten Fletcher, the building’s property manager wrote that “it is difficult all around,” and cites that the building owner also owns over 50 stores in the Americas alone. “Rent is contracted and due by the tenants, no one is making money,” Fletcher replied in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fletcher also notes that one month of deferred rent was offered to Kinokuniya tenants earlier in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Establishing and securing the commercial and retail district of Japantown is an effort that dates back more than a century, starting from when Japanese immigrants settled into the area after the 1906 earthquake. It grew into a thriving community that spanned about 40 blocks during its heyday until Executive Order 9066 during World War II swept Japanese citizens and Japanese Americans into internment camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, through years of economic development, buildings have been razed and the neighborhood has been reduced into only a commercial district. It’s why protecting the mom-and-pop shops in Japantown is an effort to preserve the cultural heart of the wider Bay Area Japanese American community, many of whom come into San Francisco to convene and continue important traditions. Japantown is less residential than Chinatown but it serves as a focal point for key community events and festivals, including local basketball league games, the annual Cherry Blossom and Obon Festivals and gatherings at the Japanese Buddhist church in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44778_061_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44778_061_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44778_061_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44778_061_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44778_061_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44778_061_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xiao Feng brings out an order at the Matcha Cafe Maiko at the Japan Center West Mall on Sept. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kristy Wang, a community planning policy director with the\u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/\"> San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)\u003c/a> adds that keeping businesses alive in these neighborhoods is essential in preserving a cultural home base for communities, even if they move away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She cites the exodus of San Francisco’s Black population as an example: “So many people have had to move out or decided to move out. And if you lose those businesses, then you lose a place to go back to even.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low says attempts to reach out to Kinokuniya’s property manager and attorneys have gone unanswered, and he’s afraid that once the commercial eviction moratorium is lifted on Monday, many of these businesses won’t make it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our existing commercial eviction moratorium was based on the assumption that this pandemic would only last six months ... it was a very short-term reaction,” Low said. “I think we relied too much on the good faith that landlords and tenants can work out their own problems and what we’re rapidly realizing is this is not the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands now, the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/check-if-your-business-qualifies-eviction-moratorium\">commercial eviction moratorium\u003c/a> states that if commercial tenants have not paid all outstanding rent after six months, landlords are able to evict them for non-payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low has drafted an ordinance – and is in talks with Supervisor Peskin, as well as District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston, whose jurisdiction includes Japantown – that would extend the existing moratorium as well as add more weight to its enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the timeline of when this may happen is still unclear, Peskin says he hopes to arrive at a solution that will be “legally sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low adds, however, that an extension of the moratorium still won’t be enough. “The moratorium is fine just for stalling the evictions,\" he says. \"You have to get to the underlying problem, which is not only stopping the evictions or addressing evictions, but somehow addressing the money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>In SOMA Pilipinas: Incubating Survival Strategies\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another population in San Francisco that is acutely familiar with being forced to relocate is the Filipino American population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.somapilipinas.org/\">SOMA Pilipinas\u003c/a> was formed in 2016 in part to encourage entrepreneurship among Filipino Americans in a Filipino-dedicated business corridor and reclaim space in a city that has repeatedly displaced them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837569\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44754_033_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44754_033_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44754_033_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44754_033_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44754_033_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44754_033_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural on the Bayanihan Community Center in the SOMA Pilipinas neighborhood in San Francisco on Sept. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There had been a 10-block radius neighborhood dubbed “Manilatown” on Kearny Street in the 1920s established by Filipino migrant farmworkers. But as urban renewal and development sought to grow the city’s Financial District, Filipinos were slowly pushed out of the area. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NotoriousECG/status/1290829342059016193\">The tension came to a head in 1977\u003c/a>, when the International Hotel, or I-Hotel, a residential building for Filipino immigrants, faced eviction threats, which led to large protests and coalition building with other groups, including Chinese and Japanese American activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, I-Hotel evictions took place and shifted Filipino immigrants to the SOMA district, where they opened up businesses and established storefronts. But they then faced additional mass displacement during the development of Yerba Buena and Moscone centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SOMA Pilipinas is kind of a great hope of ‘we can finally write the narratives that we always wanted,’ ” said Desi Danganan, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://kultivatelabs.com/\">Kultivate Labs\u003c/a>, a nonprofit arts and economic development organization, who helped spearhead the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these past struggles led up to this momentous opportunity to develop our community in one of the most wealthiest progressive cities in the world,” said Danganan. Since its establishment and before the pandemic, SOMA Pilipinas had 18 businesses in the neighborhood – its main corridor is on Mission Street between Fifth and Seventh streets – and many of its owners are younger Filipino entrepreneurs and artists. The district has since lost four businesses due to the economic challenges of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837568\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44753_031_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44753_031_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44753_031_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44753_031_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44753_031_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44753_031_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person rides a bike by a mural on Bindlestiff, a Filipinx black box theater on 6th Street in the SOMA Pilipinas neighborhood in San Francisco on Sept. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a survey conducted a few months ago, more than half of the food and retail businesses in SOMA Pilipinas have lost more than 90% of their revenue, largely attributed to the lack of foot traffic from employees in nearby office buildings, including the Twitter headquarters. Nearly 70% of the businesses say they only had a handful of months left to stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact on SOMA Pilipinas may mean a serious hurdle for new Filipino entrepreneurs who saw the new business district as a source of cultural empowerment. With a background in entrepreneurship and business marketing, Danganan says he realized early on that establishing an economic footprint would be critical in creating a cultural space for the Filipino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Access to capital and mentorship was the biggest barrier to entry into doing business in the south of market, or SOMA Pilipinas,” he said. Through Kultivate Labs, Danganan and his team function as an incubator to help kickstart Filipino businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such business owner is Hü Gamit, a 27-year-old San Francisco native who followed in the footsteps of his late grandfather, Papay, who once owned The Gamit Barbershop on 6th Street. He grew up in his grandfather’s shop, which he says was a safe space for Filipino immigrants, and watched him bond with the local community. He established his own barber shop, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youbyhu.com/\">Yoü by Hü\u003c/a>, on Sixth Street in August 2019 and says it provided an opportunity to continue a family and cultural legacy – he frequently runs into SOMA community members who remember his grandfather fondly – and empower himself to contribute something new for the larger SOMA community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one thing I'm most proud of is I've turned myself into a business. Like, I am the business,” Gamit said. “My space on Sixth Street, that's my place, that's like my home court.” He says it’s especially meaningful as someone who was born and raised in the city who has witnessed the power shifts and dynamics of gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But dreams of entrepreneurs like Gamit have been thwarted by the coronavirus, which has kept him from opening his shop since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some food businesses in the neighborhood have been able to survive by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815455/struggling-fil-am-restaurants-are-helping-feed-frontline-filipino-health-workers\">feeding front-line Filipino health workers\u003c/a>, an initiative designed by Kultivate Labs. But Reina Montenegro, owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nicksonmission.com/\">Nick’s on Mission\u003c/a>, a Filipino vegan restaurant, feels the urgency to pivot in order to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former caterer, Montenegro has turned to building her online presence, hosting cooking classes and preparing meal prep packages, to adapt during the uncertainty. While her landlord has accommodated late payments, she says the stack of unpaid bills, rent and other costs is growing to a point where she may have to rethink her entire business structure, and not return to the brick-and-mortar model at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837570\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44756_035_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44756_035_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44756_035_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44756_035_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44756_035_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44756_035_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rita's Catering & Eatery serving Filipino cuisine from a food truck in the SOMA Pilipinas neighborhood in San Francisco on Sept. 2, 2020.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through grants and support from city politicians, Danganan said San Francisco has been largely supportive of SOMA Pilipinas and hopes that the city continues to incorporate equity in every decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he continues to triage support for the SOMA Pilipinas businesses that continue to face devastating uncertainty, Danganan says he’s always willing to place a bet on culture, especially in San Francisco: “It's like hardware and software. Hardware is just like any kind of city infrastructure and software is the culture. And that's what we have here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recognizes, though, that the survival of cultural neighborhoods will boil down to each community’s ability to take care of itself. Danganan holds the incredible political savvy of Chinatown, cultivated by decades of activism and organizing by community leaders and activists, as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re heavily supported by our city government, as they should, but at some point, our community’s going to have to come together and support ourselves. It’s the only way to push us forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 15: Davis Property Management, the property management company for the Kinokuniya tenants of Japan Center, offered one month of deferred rent earlier in the pandemic. The story has been edited to include this response.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If a commercial eviction moratorium isn’t extended, the damage to business owners could ripple out across the Bay Area and permanently alter hubs for Asian American culture in Chinatown, Japantown and SOMA Pilipinas. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1601421893,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":68,"wordCount":3969},"headData":{"title":"What’s Lost in Bay Area Asian Culture When SF Eviction Moratorium Ends? | KQED","description":"If a commercial eviction moratorium isn’t extended, the damage to business owners could ripple out across the Bay Area and permanently alter hubs for Asian American culture in Chinatown, Japantown and SOMA Pilipinas. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"What’s Lost in Bay Area Asian Culture When SF Eviction Moratorium Ends?","datePublished":"2020-09-11T22:33:37.000Z","dateModified":"2020-09-29T23:24:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11837511 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11837511","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/09/11/whats-lost-in-bay-area-asian-culture-when-sf-eviction-moratorium-ends/","disqusTitle":"What’s Lost in Bay Area Asian Culture When SF Eviction Moratorium Ends?","subhead":"If a commercial eviction moratorium isn’t extended by Monday, the damage to business owners will ripple out across the Bay Area","path":"/news/11837511/whats-lost-in-bay-area-asian-culture-when-sf-eviction-moratorium-ends","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This report contains a clarification.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:10 p.m., Sept. 29:\u003c/strong> After extending San Francisco's commercial eviction moratorium earlier this month until Sept. 30, Mayor London Breed has now extended the moratorium for another 60 days, until Nov. 30, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBefore the pandemic, Tilly Tsang, owner of Washington Bakery and Restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown, says breakfast was always the busiest. Each morning, a rotation of regular customers would enter the restaurant, order their usual – sometimes a bun or a pastry from the bakery counter – and sit down to survey who else from the neighborhood was around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people, mostly older people, come every day to sit down and just have a cup of coffee, or a cup of \u003ci>lai chai,\u003c/i>” Tsang said. “They just want to see if they know anybody so they can chat, chat, chat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lai chai,\u003c/i> or milk tea, is one of the many Hong Kong staples that Tsang has offered at her restaurant, a local favorite, for over two decades, along with their beloved baked pork chop rice plates and salt and pepper chicken wings. Her loyal customers include Chinatown residents who live in single-room occupancy hotels (SROs). They treat Tsang’s restaurant, and other immigrant and family-owned businesses, as an essential place to catch up and socialize with one another because many of their cramped buildings lack common areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the COVID-19 pandemic, small business owners like Tsang are facing the devastating reality that many will not survive. Tens of thousands have already permanently closed in the United States, and it is uncertain when another round of federal government assistance will arrive. Aid from the federal Paycheck Protection Program has largely run out for those who could get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction moratoriums have prevented more San Francisco businesses from folding, but the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://oewd.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Guidance%20Temporary%20Moratorium%20on%20Commercial%20Evictions_v8.12.2020%20expires%209.14.20.pdf\">commercial eviction moratorium\u003c/a> ends on Sept. 14. That means commercial tenants will have until Monday to pay back missed rent payments – which for many add up to six months rent – or else landlords can start evicting them as early as October. Locals fear that once commercial evictions begin, those who depend on the businesses for jobs, culture and community will be displaced, and the cultural landscape of San Francisco will be irreparably harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.perkinscoie.com/en/professionals/allan-e-low.html\">Allan Low\u003c/a> is working pro bono to assist small business owners in the city’s Asian cultural districts. He says without immediate steps on both the federal and local level to address the threat of permanent closures, “We’re going to be faced with a tidal wave of evictions, bankruptcies and retail landscapes that are just going to be completely obliterated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that could mean devastation to neighborhoods that have largely defined San Francisco’s unique culture, including Chinatown, Japantown and the city’s newest cultural district, SOMA Pilipinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ripple effects will hit the larger Bay Area Asian Pacific Islander American population that depend on these hubs for a sense of belonging, essential services and cultural empowerment – especially in a region that has already faced rapid gentrification and demographic shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>In Chinatown: Holding Space for One Another\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike its more affluent neighbors in Russian Hill and North Beach, Chinatown has been able to stave off years of housing and development pressures thanks to its strong community, tenant organizing and zoning restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin says the neighborhood has benefited from its “incredibly rich fabric of community-based organizations” such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/\">Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC)\u003c/a>. The nonprofit housing organization quickly leapt into action at the start of the pandemic with its short-term \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816116/chinatown-housing-group-feeds-vulnerable-sro-tenants-by-reviving-legacy-restaurants\">Feed + Fuel Chinatown program\u003c/a>. The program immediately mobilized Chinatown restaurants to feed vulnerable SRO restaurants and the elderly. It allowed restaurant owners to hire back laid off employees and pay rents, but it ended in mid-July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837566\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837566\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44732_010_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44732_010_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44732_010_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44732_010_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44732_010_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44732_010_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea Hung works to package meals for a Chinatown Community Development Center program that provides meal delivery for for seniors and residents in local SROs or public housing during COVID-19, at the Washington Bakery and Restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown on Sept. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some restaurants, like Tsang’s, are still participating in a similar effort through the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/health-food/groceries-and-meals/great-plates-delivered-meal-program\">Great Plates program\u003c/a>, but most say they are only generating about 25% of their regular revenue, a CCDC restaurant survey revealed. Nearly 60% of restaurant jobs have been eliminated and less than a quarter of the Chinatown restaurants surveyed say they can maintain their businesses; the rest are either unsure, barely surviving or have only months left to stay open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though shelter-in-place orders were announced in mid-March, the painful drop in business started in January for Frank Chui, co-owner of the Hang Ah Tea Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a fall-off-the-cliff kind of decline,” he said. “It wasn’t slow. It was immediately – boom, within a week, 70% to 90% drop, like no business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area APIA businesses, not just in Chinatown, were hit first – as early as December 2019 – because of rising xenophobia and anti-Asian discrimination, which motivated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11803203/pelosi-lunches-in-sf-chinatown-lending-support-to-businesses-amid-coronavirus-fears\">politicians to encourage patronage of Chinatown businesses\u003c/a> before San Francisco issued its shelter-in-place orders.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It becomes this domino effect ... It’s not just the loss of a business, it’s the loss of a whole community.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Chelsea Hung, Washington Bakery & Restaurant","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chui says the closure of Hang Ah Tea Room, which was established in 1920, would mean the permanent loss of an important piece of San Francisco Chinatown and American history: “It’s the first dim sum house in America.” Chui acquired the restaurant in 2014 and had hopes of celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owning the restaurant was an opportunity for Chui to help protect part of Chinatown’s legacy; the restaurant has generations of customers that make visiting Hang Ah Tea Room an annual tradition. But the challenges of COVID-19 has forced him to cut more than half of his staff – all recent immigrants who live in Chinatown. Chui says they have all been able to collect unemployment benefits after the layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tsang’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbrsf.com/\">Washington Bakery and Restaurant\u003c/a>, some employees have stayed on for decades. Keeping the restaurant in the family is a priority for Tsang and her daughter Chelsea Hung. Hung moved back from New York in 2018 after working in tech to help out with the restaurant because she couldn’t bear the thought of letting the business go when her mother contemplated retiring a couple years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's up to our generation to pay it forward and continue the community we grew up in,” Hung said. “It's more than the restaurant, but also for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She explains that the businesses are intricately linked to a unique commercial ecosystem that helps make Chinatown a complete neighborhood: “We use a lot of local vendors, and if we had to shut down those vendors would be affected, too,” Hung said. “It becomes this domino effect. ... It’s not just the loss of a business, it’s the loss of a whole community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837560\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44703_029_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_08302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44703_029_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_08302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44703_029_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_08302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44703_029_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_08302020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44703_029_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_08302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44703_029_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_08302020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As apart of the 'Shared Spaces' program, sections of Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown are temporarily closed to traffic on Aug. 30, 2020. The street closure, every Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m, allows pedestrians more space and restaurants to open for outdoor dining.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is trying to help struggling Chinatown businesses by encouraging restaurants to participate in outdoor dining. While the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/shared-spaces\">Shared Spaces program \u003c/a>had already shut down a stretch of Grant Street – the corridor of Chinatown most known for its tourist souvenir shops – for outdoor dining, it has primarily been utilized by outside visitors and tourists who have slowly begun to return to Chinatown. Hoping to loop in more restaurants, especially ones that serve locals, CCDC and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce started providing grants and technical assistance to merchants, such as securing barricades to partition an outdoor dining area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hung says the program has helped Washington Cafe and Restaurant, and the effort has slowly welcomed back their usual regulars who have happily found an outdoor alternative for the morning \u003ci>lai chai\u003c/i>. “They’re happy about that but they’re also facing their own challenges of how to social distance, but also be active and still live their life,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Hung says their landlord, who also owns a business in Chinatown, has accommodated delayed rent payments for now, she still has to pay several months’ in full, and it’s an anxiety-inducing reality that is sinking in for businesses across the city as the eviction moratorium is scheduled to end on Sept. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837567\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44739_017_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44739_017_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44739_017_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44739_017_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44739_017_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44739_017_KQED_Chinatown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jade Zhu takes orders at outdoor tables at the Washington Bakery and Restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown on Sept. 2, 2020.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>In Japantown: Two Landlords Determine the Fate of Dozens\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the threat of commercial evictions in Chinatown is imminent, it may be blunted by the fact that building ownership in the neighborhood is more diversified compared to others. Supervisor Peskin says that because many of its buildings are owned by family associations, for example, that are not “entirely motivated by money and rent,” he believes businesses in other neighborhoods face a graver risk of permanently closing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such neighborhood is Japantown where the fate of dozens of small businesses in the East and West sides of the Japan Center mall – the cultural district’s main commercial center – is in the hands of just two landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837573\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44780_063_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Japntown Peace Plaza on Sept. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the start of the pandemic, the closure of the two-building indoor mall has severely impacted the more than 50 businesses inside, which are a mix of mom-and-pop shops and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the rent, businesses must pay the common area maintenance fees that have more than doubled for some tenants since a turnover in property management in 2018. Adding to tenants’ woes has been the total lack of response to requests for future rent relief structure on the part of one particular landlord, Kinokuniya Bookstores of America, which makes negotiating a deal impossible, says Diane Matsuda, a staff attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://www.apilegaloutreach.org/\">Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach (APILO)\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest challenge here is that you have two really big mega landlords and those mega landlords control a lot of the cultural and economic hub of Japantown,” Matsuda says. “Should they not want to negotiate or have any kind of rent abatement ... you’re really talking about us losing literally a whole ethnic community that has been here since the start of the 19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matsuda and Low, who is also fighting for Chinatown business owners, have been representing nearly 40 Japan Center tenants in total, many of whom are native Japanese speakers with limited English proficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don't have to just be the quiet Americans that I think the property manager wants them to be,” Matsuda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837577\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44765_046_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44765_046_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44765_046_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44765_046_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44765_046_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44765_046_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Japan Center East Mall on Sept. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One such tenant is Ryan Kimura, who owns Pika Pika on the Kinokuniya side of the mall. Since 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pikapikasf.com/\">Pika Pika\u003c/a> has been a specialty store that features \u003ci>purikura\u003c/i>, or Japanese sticker photo booths, which is often frequented by young teens and families. The photos are a popular Japanese phenomenon that Kimura wanted to bring to the U.S. after living in Japan for several years. It’s an in-person and unique social experience that has made it impossible for the business to reopen during the pandemic. Despite no revenue, Pika Pika continues to receive monthly invoices for rent and services, according to Kimura, who says he and his family are now leaning towards closing up the 14-year-old shop for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the businesses, like Pika Pika, highlight unique aspects of Japanese culture, from gardening knowledge to selling products that would otherwise only be found in Japan. For the tenants, the business of sharing Japanese culture and traditions is a deeply personal passion – one that now stands to be lost if rent negotiations do not take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, a coalition of Japantown mall tenants expressed their concerns over high common-area maintenance charges that dramatically increased since Davis Property Management took over management of the Kinokuniya Building in 2018. Kimura and Matsuda say some of the tenants have seen over a 100% increase in the fees and that some are paying more in these charges than in rent itself.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'You’re really talking about us losing literally a whole ethnic community that has been here since the start of the 19th century.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Diane Matsuda, Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has caused a lot of friction within our mall and a lot of tenants are upset about it and the lack of transparency,” says Kimura. “We send multiple emails, letters to our property managers and landlords and have heard nothing back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Kinokuniya’s attorneys for this story were unsuccessful, but Kirsten Fletcher, the building’s property manager wrote that “it is difficult all around,” and cites that the building owner also owns over 50 stores in the Americas alone. “Rent is contracted and due by the tenants, no one is making money,” Fletcher replied in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fletcher also notes that one month of deferred rent was offered to Kinokuniya tenants earlier in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Establishing and securing the commercial and retail district of Japantown is an effort that dates back more than a century, starting from when Japanese immigrants settled into the area after the 1906 earthquake. It grew into a thriving community that spanned about 40 blocks during its heyday until Executive Order 9066 during World War II swept Japanese citizens and Japanese Americans into internment camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, through years of economic development, buildings have been razed and the neighborhood has been reduced into only a commercial district. It’s why protecting the mom-and-pop shops in Japantown is an effort to preserve the cultural heart of the wider Bay Area Japanese American community, many of whom come into San Francisco to convene and continue important traditions. Japantown is less residential than Chinatown but it serves as a focal point for key community events and festivals, including local basketball league games, the annual Cherry Blossom and Obon Festivals and gatherings at the Japanese Buddhist church in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44778_061_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44778_061_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44778_061_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44778_061_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44778_061_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44778_061_KQED_Japantown_Businesses_09022020-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xiao Feng brings out an order at the Matcha Cafe Maiko at the Japan Center West Mall on Sept. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kristy Wang, a community planning policy director with the\u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/\"> San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)\u003c/a> adds that keeping businesses alive in these neighborhoods is essential in preserving a cultural home base for communities, even if they move away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She cites the exodus of San Francisco’s Black population as an example: “So many people have had to move out or decided to move out. And if you lose those businesses, then you lose a place to go back to even.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low says attempts to reach out to Kinokuniya’s property manager and attorneys have gone unanswered, and he’s afraid that once the commercial eviction moratorium is lifted on Monday, many of these businesses won’t make it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our existing commercial eviction moratorium was based on the assumption that this pandemic would only last six months ... it was a very short-term reaction,” Low said. “I think we relied too much on the good faith that landlords and tenants can work out their own problems and what we’re rapidly realizing is this is not the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands now, the \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/check-if-your-business-qualifies-eviction-moratorium\">commercial eviction moratorium\u003c/a> states that if commercial tenants have not paid all outstanding rent after six months, landlords are able to evict them for non-payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low has drafted an ordinance – and is in talks with Supervisor Peskin, as well as District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston, whose jurisdiction includes Japantown – that would extend the existing moratorium as well as add more weight to its enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the timeline of when this may happen is still unclear, Peskin says he hopes to arrive at a solution that will be “legally sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low adds, however, that an extension of the moratorium still won’t be enough. “The moratorium is fine just for stalling the evictions,\" he says. \"You have to get to the underlying problem, which is not only stopping the evictions or addressing evictions, but somehow addressing the money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>In SOMA Pilipinas: Incubating Survival Strategies\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Another population in San Francisco that is acutely familiar with being forced to relocate is the Filipino American population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.somapilipinas.org/\">SOMA Pilipinas\u003c/a> was formed in 2016 in part to encourage entrepreneurship among Filipino Americans in a Filipino-dedicated business corridor and reclaim space in a city that has repeatedly displaced them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837569\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44754_033_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44754_033_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44754_033_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44754_033_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44754_033_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44754_033_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural on the Bayanihan Community Center in the SOMA Pilipinas neighborhood in San Francisco on Sept. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There had been a 10-block radius neighborhood dubbed “Manilatown” on Kearny Street in the 1920s established by Filipino migrant farmworkers. But as urban renewal and development sought to grow the city’s Financial District, Filipinos were slowly pushed out of the area. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NotoriousECG/status/1290829342059016193\">The tension came to a head in 1977\u003c/a>, when the International Hotel, or I-Hotel, a residential building for Filipino immigrants, faced eviction threats, which led to large protests and coalition building with other groups, including Chinese and Japanese American activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, I-Hotel evictions took place and shifted Filipino immigrants to the SOMA district, where they opened up businesses and established storefronts. But they then faced additional mass displacement during the development of Yerba Buena and Moscone centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SOMA Pilipinas is kind of a great hope of ‘we can finally write the narratives that we always wanted,’ ” said Desi Danganan, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://kultivatelabs.com/\">Kultivate Labs\u003c/a>, a nonprofit arts and economic development organization, who helped spearhead the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these past struggles led up to this momentous opportunity to develop our community in one of the most wealthiest progressive cities in the world,” said Danganan. Since its establishment and before the pandemic, SOMA Pilipinas had 18 businesses in the neighborhood – its main corridor is on Mission Street between Fifth and Seventh streets – and many of its owners are younger Filipino entrepreneurs and artists. The district has since lost four businesses due to the economic challenges of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837568\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44753_031_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44753_031_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44753_031_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44753_031_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44753_031_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44753_031_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person rides a bike by a mural on Bindlestiff, a Filipinx black box theater on 6th Street in the SOMA Pilipinas neighborhood in San Francisco on Sept. 2, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a survey conducted a few months ago, more than half of the food and retail businesses in SOMA Pilipinas have lost more than 90% of their revenue, largely attributed to the lack of foot traffic from employees in nearby office buildings, including the Twitter headquarters. Nearly 70% of the businesses say they only had a handful of months left to stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact on SOMA Pilipinas may mean a serious hurdle for new Filipino entrepreneurs who saw the new business district as a source of cultural empowerment. With a background in entrepreneurship and business marketing, Danganan says he realized early on that establishing an economic footprint would be critical in creating a cultural space for the Filipino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Access to capital and mentorship was the biggest barrier to entry into doing business in the south of market, or SOMA Pilipinas,” he said. Through Kultivate Labs, Danganan and his team function as an incubator to help kickstart Filipino businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such business owner is Hü Gamit, a 27-year-old San Francisco native who followed in the footsteps of his late grandfather, Papay, who once owned The Gamit Barbershop on 6th Street. He grew up in his grandfather’s shop, which he says was a safe space for Filipino immigrants, and watched him bond with the local community. He established his own barber shop, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youbyhu.com/\">Yoü by Hü\u003c/a>, on Sixth Street in August 2019 and says it provided an opportunity to continue a family and cultural legacy – he frequently runs into SOMA community members who remember his grandfather fondly – and empower himself to contribute something new for the larger SOMA community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one thing I'm most proud of is I've turned myself into a business. Like, I am the business,” Gamit said. “My space on Sixth Street, that's my place, that's like my home court.” He says it’s especially meaningful as someone who was born and raised in the city who has witnessed the power shifts and dynamics of gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But dreams of entrepreneurs like Gamit have been thwarted by the coronavirus, which has kept him from opening his shop since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some food businesses in the neighborhood have been able to survive by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815455/struggling-fil-am-restaurants-are-helping-feed-frontline-filipino-health-workers\">feeding front-line Filipino health workers\u003c/a>, an initiative designed by Kultivate Labs. But Reina Montenegro, owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nicksonmission.com/\">Nick’s on Mission\u003c/a>, a Filipino vegan restaurant, feels the urgency to pivot in order to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former caterer, Montenegro has turned to building her online presence, hosting cooking classes and preparing meal prep packages, to adapt during the uncertainty. While her landlord has accommodated late payments, she says the stack of unpaid bills, rent and other costs is growing to a point where she may have to rethink her entire business structure, and not return to the brick-and-mortar model at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837570\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11837570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44756_035_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44756_035_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44756_035_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44756_035_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44756_035_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44756_035_KQED_SOMAPilipinas_Businesses_09022020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rita's Catering & Eatery serving Filipino cuisine from a food truck in the SOMA Pilipinas neighborhood in San Francisco on Sept. 2, 2020.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through grants and support from city politicians, Danganan said San Francisco has been largely supportive of SOMA Pilipinas and hopes that the city continues to incorporate equity in every decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he continues to triage support for the SOMA Pilipinas businesses that continue to face devastating uncertainty, Danganan says he’s always willing to place a bet on culture, especially in San Francisco: “It's like hardware and software. Hardware is just like any kind of city infrastructure and software is the culture. And that's what we have here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recognizes, though, that the survival of cultural neighborhoods will boil down to each community’s ability to take care of itself. Danganan holds the incredible political savvy of Chinatown, cultivated by decades of activism and organizing by community leaders and activists, as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re heavily supported by our city government, as they should, but at some point, our community’s going to have to come together and support ourselves. It’s the only way to push us forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 15: Davis Property Management, the property management company for the Kinokuniya tenants of Japan Center, offered one month of deferred rent earlier in the pandemic. The story has been edited to include this response.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11837511/whats-lost-in-bay-area-asian-culture-when-sf-eviction-moratorium-ends","authors":["8617"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_24788","news_393","news_27701","news_17708","news_23056","news_38","news_6142","news_20920","news_6544"],"featImg":"news_11837554","label":"news"},"news_11830791":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11830791","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11830791","score":null,"sort":[1595966505000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-firefighters-battling-massive-5-alarm-blaze-in-soma","title":"Massive 5-Alarm Blaze in SoMa Burns 6 Buildings, Injures SF Firefighter","publishDate":1595966505,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Updated 1 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830826\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/9BJZV-2-1-e1595963028135.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11830826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/9BJZV-2-1-e1595963028135.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for area of detail. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Firefighters battled a large five-alarm structure fire on Tuesday morning near Highway 101 in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First reported around 6:30 a.m., the fire burned for hours, with huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the air. It burned at least six commercial buildings within the block contained by South Van Ness, Folsom, 14th and Erie streets, displacing roughly 100 workers and destroying or badly damaging multiple businesses, according to the San Francisco Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters had mostly contained the blaze by about 9 a.m., preventing it from spreading to neighboring structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 160 firefighters and 60 trucks and engines battled the blaze, SFFD Chief Jeanine Nicholson said at a morning news briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're just going to be on scene for quite a while longer, for several days most likely,\" she said. \"It is still under investigation. We do not have a cause of origin at this time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/scottshafer/status/1288149393158180871\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After exhausting the immediate water supply, firefighters pumped water through a high-pressure system from tanks on Jones Street, then Ashbury Street and finally from Twin Peaks, attacking the flames with a deluge of some 100 million gallons of water, a department spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartfeld Sales Co., a construction supply warehouse, was among the businesses that went up in flames. The building, which appears to have been completely destroyed, contained a large supply of lumber, Brian Bartfeld, the owner's son, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/the-whole-building-is-gone-73-year-old-family-business-destroyed-in-5-alarm-san-francisco-fire\">told KTVU\u003c/a>. No one was inside at the time, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11830853\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters battle a five-alarm blaze on 14th Street between South Van Ness and Folsom Street in San Francisco on the morning of July 28, 2020. Bartfeld Sales Co. was one of multiple businesses destroyed in the blaze, with only a remnant of its charred facade remaining. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents the neighborhood, said power had been cut to some of the surrounding buildings, and members of the public have been asked to stay away from the vicinity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MattHaneySF/status/1288123366377787396?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One firefighter was taken to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment after being hit by falling debris and suffering a minor head injury. No other injuries have been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFFDPIO/status/1288126069543854081?s=20\">tweets\u003c/a>, the fire department directed people to the crowd-sourced app \u003ca href=\"https://citizen.com/-MDKgpbRjmG19DhvwnhS\">Citizen\u003c/a>, where it posts updated information and videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People displaced by the fire and in need of services can go to a staging location in the parking lot of \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/kQxH8eCjfiaosM9x6\">Rainbow Grocery at 1745 Folsom Street\u003c/a>, where Red Cross workers are stationed, the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/scottshafer/status/1288136506285023239?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the buildings impacted by the fire is a San Francisco Sheriff's Department facility, which houses its field operations headquarters, a planning division and administrative offices, according to Ken Lomba, president of the San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs' Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lomba estimated 15 to 20 staffers work at the building on a daily basis and confirmed that all had evacuated safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evac was a precaution,\" Lomba told KQED. \"Whatever building is on fire is right next to it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department later confirmed that there had been ammunition stored in the building, which it removed during the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFFFLocal798/status/1288143087236079616?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued an air quality advisory Tuesday morning due to smoke from fire, which it said was impacting areas around San Francisco, with shifting winds also bringing smoke into the East Bay. Air quality will likely improve throughout the day, officials said, but urged residents to avoid smoke exposure and, if possible, stay indoors with windows closed until smoke levels subside. It is also recommended that residents set their air conditioning units or car vent systems to recirculate air to prevent outside air from moving inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We expect localized smoke impacts,\" said Kristine Roselius with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. \"Particulate matter (PM) levels are not elevated on our monitors, but that is likely due to smoke going above the marine layer at 2,000 feet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AirDistrict/status/1288153433325711364\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Scott Shafer, David Marks and Matthew Green contributed reporting. This post will continue to be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The structure fire burned at least six buildings within the block contained by South Van Ness, Folsom, 14th and Division streets. It had been mostly contained by 9 a.m.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1595983474,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":730},"headData":{"title":"Massive 5-Alarm Blaze in SoMa Burns 6 Buildings, Injures SF Firefighter | KQED","description":"The structure fire burned at least six buildings within the block contained by South Van Ness, Folsom, 14th and Division streets. 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It burned at least six commercial buildings within the block contained by South Van Ness, Folsom, 14th and Erie streets, displacing roughly 100 workers and destroying or badly damaging multiple businesses, according to the San Francisco Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters had mostly contained the blaze by about 9 a.m., preventing it from spreading to neighboring structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 160 firefighters and 60 trucks and engines battled the blaze, SFFD Chief Jeanine Nicholson said at a morning news briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're just going to be on scene for quite a while longer, for several days most likely,\" she said. \"It is still under investigation. We do not have a cause of origin at this time.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1288149393158180871"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>After exhausting the immediate water supply, firefighters pumped water through a high-pressure system from tanks on Jones Street, then Ashbury Street and finally from Twin Peaks, attacking the flames with a deluge of some 100 million gallons of water, a department spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartfeld Sales Co., a construction supply warehouse, was among the businesses that went up in flames. The building, which appears to have been completely destroyed, contained a large supply of lumber, Brian Bartfeld, the owner's son, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/the-whole-building-is-gone-73-year-old-family-business-destroyed-in-5-alarm-san-francisco-fire\">told KTVU\u003c/a>. No one was inside at the time, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11830853\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44098_010_KQED_SanFrancisco_FolsomFire_07282020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters battle a five-alarm blaze on 14th Street between South Van Ness and Folsom Street in San Francisco on the morning of July 28, 2020. Bartfeld Sales Co. was one of multiple businesses destroyed in the blaze, with only a remnant of its charred facade remaining. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents the neighborhood, said power had been cut to some of the surrounding buildings, and members of the public have been asked to stay away from the vicinity.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1288123366377787396"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>One firefighter was taken to San Francisco General Hospital for treatment after being hit by falling debris and suffering a minor head injury. No other injuries have been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFFDPIO/status/1288126069543854081?s=20\">tweets\u003c/a>, the fire department directed people to the crowd-sourced app \u003ca href=\"https://citizen.com/-MDKgpbRjmG19DhvwnhS\">Citizen\u003c/a>, where it posts updated information and videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People displaced by the fire and in need of services can go to a staging location in the parking lot of \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/kQxH8eCjfiaosM9x6\">Rainbow Grocery at 1745 Folsom Street\u003c/a>, where Red Cross workers are stationed, the department said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1288136506285023239"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>One of the buildings impacted by the fire is a San Francisco Sheriff's Department facility, which houses its field operations headquarters, a planning division and administrative offices, according to Ken Lomba, president of the San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs' Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lomba estimated 15 to 20 staffers work at the building on a daily basis and confirmed that all had evacuated safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evac was a precaution,\" Lomba told KQED. \"Whatever building is on fire is right next to it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department later confirmed that there had been ammunition stored in the building, which it removed during the fire.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1288143087236079616"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued an air quality advisory Tuesday morning due to smoke from fire, which it said was impacting areas around San Francisco, with shifting winds also bringing smoke into the East Bay. Air quality will likely improve throughout the day, officials said, but urged residents to avoid smoke exposure and, if possible, stay indoors with windows closed until smoke levels subside. It is also recommended that residents set their air conditioning units or car vent systems to recirculate air to prevent outside air from moving inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We expect localized smoke impacts,\" said Kristine Roselius with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. \"Particulate matter (PM) levels are not elevated on our monitors, but that is likely due to smoke going above the marine layer at 2,000 feet.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1288153433325711364"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Scott Shafer, David Marks and Matthew Green contributed reporting. This post will continue to be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11830791/sf-firefighters-battling-massive-5-alarm-blaze-in-soma","authors":["236"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_787","news_38","news_1513","news_6544"],"featImg":"news_11830845","label":"news"},"news_11815455":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11815455","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11815455","score":null,"sort":[1588377830000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"struggling-fil-am-restaurants-are-helping-feed-frontline-filipino-health-workers","title":"Struggling Fil-Am Restaurants Are Helping Feed Front-line Filipino Health Workers","publishDate":1588377830,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report Magazine | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/28/coronavirus-taking-outsized-toll-on-filipino-american-nurses/\">20% of registered nurses\u003c/a> in California are Filipino, and the COVID-19 crisis is having a disproportionate impact on them. At the same time, Filipino restaurants and food trucks are struggling to survive while sheltering in place. A new campaign called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kultivatelabs.com/frontlines\">Filipinos Feed the Frontlines\u003c/a> aims to connect those dots, giving a boost to Bay Area Filipino restaurants by paying them to make meals for health care workers and communities in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desi Danganan helped launch the effort as the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kultivatelabs.com/\">Kultivate Labs\u003c/a>, a nonprofit based in SOMA Pilipinas, San Francisco’s newly designated Filipino cultural district. California Report host Sasha Khokha talked with Danganan about the meal effort. Here are some interview highlights. These excerpts have been for edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeU4mm3oUPY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how the project got started\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We sent out a survey to our network of entrepreneurs. The data we got was really startling: A lot of the Bay Area Filipino restaurants were seeing 90% drops in revenue. Some were reporting that they only had two months’ worth of cash to stay alive. It was really a big Hail Mary to see what we could do quickly to try to save these restaurants. The other part of the equation was addressing the needs of front-line health care workers, and the community in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.somapilipinas.org/\">Filipino cultural district\u003c/a> we got designated four years ago. A lot of the Filipinos here happen to be seniors. A lot of them also happen to be undocumented or lower income. And these are the populations that are most impacted by the economic devastation of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11815745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/FFTFL_SetonDelivery-2-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/FFTFL_SetonDelivery-2-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/FFTFL_SetonDelivery-2-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/FFTFL_SetonDelivery-2-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/FFTFL_SetonDelivery-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Filipinos Feed The Frontlines group deliver about 700 meals to Seton Medical Center in Daly City. The hospital has been designated to treat COVID-19 patients, and about 60% of its nursing staff is Filipino. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of PapaLoDown Agency)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the fundraising model and the Filipino tradition of \u003cem>kapwa\u003c/em>:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This project is crowdsourced. Donations are coming from around the nation. It's not just the Bay Area. We have a large cluster of donors from Los Angeles. We also have people as far away as Florida, Oklahoma and New York who have been donating to our campaign. \u003cem>Kapwa\u003c/em> is basically a very deep and interconnected sense of empathy of \"if something happens to you, I can feel that.\" We are a very interconnected community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Philippine archipelago of islands is in an area that is always hit by typhoons and hurricanes. Natural disasters and calamities are kind of a part of life. In the Philippines, you can't really depend on the dysfunctional government to help you. So, you have to turn to your fellow \u003cem>kababayan,\u003c/em> your fellow countrymen, to find help. We always band together when times of crisis occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11815753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/TheSarapShop2_FFFTFL-1-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/TheSarapShop2_FFFTFL-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/TheSarapShop2_FFFTFL-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/TheSarapShop2_FFFTFL-1-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/TheSarapShop2_FFFTFL-1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers at The Sarap Shop prepares meals as part of the Filipinos Feed the Frontlines effort to help struggling restaurants while helping feed health care workers and low-income residents. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Sarap Shop)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether the campaign is enough to save local restaurants:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some restaurants have already realized they’ll have to close, like \u003ca href=\"http://mestizasf.com\">Mestiza Taqueria\u003c/a>, a San Francisco Mexican and Filipino fusion restaurant. Others are still struggling. This crisis is not going to end in three weeks or in two months. But you know, what we're doing is helping. Sales right now are so precarious that what we're giving our alliance of food businesses is actually a lifeline. Our first week, we were able to distribute 600 meals. In our third week, that jumped up to a little over 2,000 meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On looking ahead to when the shelter-in-place order ends:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're actually building a new public space in San Francisco’s South of Market called Kapwa Gardens that is designed to address some of the issues that are emerging from COVID-19. Many of the residents live in cramped conditions, SROs and one-bedroom apartments where multiple families live. Those cramped quarters present challenges for mental health during the shelter in place when there isn’t much green space around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11815747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Annotated-Side-Perspective-01-1-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Annotated-Side-Perspective-01-1-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Annotated-Side-Perspective-01-1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Annotated-Side-Perspective-01-1-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Annotated-Side-Perspective-01-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renderings for a new park in SOMA Pilipinas, the Filipino cultural district in San Francisco, that would allow for social distancing, hand-washing stations and fruit trees for seniors to pick fruit. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kultivate Labs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco has given us an 8,000-square-feet parking lot that we're designing with a really cool, culturally relevant mural on the floor. It's actually a grid line that emphasizes social distancing. And as you go through this grid, it turns into a labyrinth of fruit trees where the community can pick fruit. Towards the end of it will be an exercise pod that'll be gridded out in a way so that people could still exercise, but maintain the proper social distancing to keep safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Filipino tradition of \u003cem>kapwa\u003c/em>, or interconnectedness, inspired meal donations for health care workers","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1588391656,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":822},"headData":{"title":"Struggling Fil-Am Restaurants Are Helping Feed Front-line Filipino Health Workers | KQED","description":"The Filipino tradition of kapwa, or interconnectedness, inspired meal donations for health care workers","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Struggling Fil-Am Restaurants Are Helping Feed Front-line Filipino Health Workers","datePublished":"2020-05-02T00:03:50.000Z","dateModified":"2020-05-02T03:54:16.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11815455 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11815455","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/05/01/struggling-fil-am-restaurants-are-helping-feed-frontline-filipino-health-workers/","disqusTitle":"Struggling Fil-Am Restaurants Are Helping Feed Front-line Filipino Health Workers","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/b1ca1092-638d-43d5-a008-abae0186904b/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11815455/struggling-fil-am-restaurants-are-helping-feed-frontline-filipino-health-workers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/28/coronavirus-taking-outsized-toll-on-filipino-american-nurses/\">20% of registered nurses\u003c/a> in California are Filipino, and the COVID-19 crisis is having a disproportionate impact on them. At the same time, Filipino restaurants and food trucks are struggling to survive while sheltering in place. A new campaign called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kultivatelabs.com/frontlines\">Filipinos Feed the Frontlines\u003c/a> aims to connect those dots, giving a boost to Bay Area Filipino restaurants by paying them to make meals for health care workers and communities in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desi Danganan helped launch the effort as the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kultivatelabs.com/\">Kultivate Labs\u003c/a>, a nonprofit based in SOMA Pilipinas, San Francisco’s newly designated Filipino cultural district. California Report host Sasha Khokha talked with Danganan about the meal effort. Here are some interview highlights. These excerpts have been for edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ZeU4mm3oUPY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ZeU4mm3oUPY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how the project got started\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We sent out a survey to our network of entrepreneurs. The data we got was really startling: A lot of the Bay Area Filipino restaurants were seeing 90% drops in revenue. Some were reporting that they only had two months’ worth of cash to stay alive. It was really a big Hail Mary to see what we could do quickly to try to save these restaurants. The other part of the equation was addressing the needs of front-line health care workers, and the community in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.somapilipinas.org/\">Filipino cultural district\u003c/a> we got designated four years ago. A lot of the Filipinos here happen to be seniors. A lot of them also happen to be undocumented or lower income. And these are the populations that are most impacted by the economic devastation of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11815745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/FFTFL_SetonDelivery-2-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/FFTFL_SetonDelivery-2-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/FFTFL_SetonDelivery-2-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/FFTFL_SetonDelivery-2-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/FFTFL_SetonDelivery-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Filipinos Feed The Frontlines group deliver about 700 meals to Seton Medical Center in Daly City. The hospital has been designated to treat COVID-19 patients, and about 60% of its nursing staff is Filipino. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of PapaLoDown Agency)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the fundraising model and the Filipino tradition of \u003cem>kapwa\u003c/em>:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This project is crowdsourced. Donations are coming from around the nation. It's not just the Bay Area. We have a large cluster of donors from Los Angeles. We also have people as far away as Florida, Oklahoma and New York who have been donating to our campaign. \u003cem>Kapwa\u003c/em> is basically a very deep and interconnected sense of empathy of \"if something happens to you, I can feel that.\" We are a very interconnected community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Philippine archipelago of islands is in an area that is always hit by typhoons and hurricanes. Natural disasters and calamities are kind of a part of life. In the Philippines, you can't really depend on the dysfunctional government to help you. So, you have to turn to your fellow \u003cem>kababayan,\u003c/em> your fellow countrymen, to find help. We always band together when times of crisis occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11815753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/TheSarapShop2_FFFTFL-1-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/TheSarapShop2_FFFTFL-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/TheSarapShop2_FFFTFL-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/TheSarapShop2_FFFTFL-1-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/TheSarapShop2_FFFTFL-1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers at The Sarap Shop prepares meals as part of the Filipinos Feed the Frontlines effort to help struggling restaurants while helping feed health care workers and low-income residents. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Sarap Shop)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether the campaign is enough to save local restaurants:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some restaurants have already realized they’ll have to close, like \u003ca href=\"http://mestizasf.com\">Mestiza Taqueria\u003c/a>, a San Francisco Mexican and Filipino fusion restaurant. Others are still struggling. This crisis is not going to end in three weeks or in two months. But you know, what we're doing is helping. Sales right now are so precarious that what we're giving our alliance of food businesses is actually a lifeline. Our first week, we were able to distribute 600 meals. In our third week, that jumped up to a little over 2,000 meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On looking ahead to when the shelter-in-place order ends:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're actually building a new public space in San Francisco’s South of Market called Kapwa Gardens that is designed to address some of the issues that are emerging from COVID-19. Many of the residents live in cramped conditions, SROs and one-bedroom apartments where multiple families live. Those cramped quarters present challenges for mental health during the shelter in place when there isn’t much green space around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11815747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Annotated-Side-Perspective-01-1-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Annotated-Side-Perspective-01-1-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Annotated-Side-Perspective-01-1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Annotated-Side-Perspective-01-1-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Annotated-Side-Perspective-01-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renderings for a new park in SOMA Pilipinas, the Filipino cultural district in San Francisco, that would allow for social distancing, hand-washing stations and fruit trees for seniors to pick fruit. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kultivate Labs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco has given us an 8,000-square-feet parking lot that we're designing with a really cool, culturally relevant mural on the floor. It's actually a grid line that emphasizes social distancing. And as you go through this grid, it turns into a labyrinth of fruit trees where the community can pick fruit. Towards the end of it will be an exercise pod that'll be gridded out in a way so that people could still exercise, but maintain the proper social distancing to keep safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11815455/struggling-fil-am-restaurants-are-helping-feed-frontline-filipino-health-workers","authors":["254"],"programs":["news_72","news_26731"],"categories":["news_223","news_24114","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_1386","news_24312","news_5056","news_333","news_24939","news_21789","news_22714","news_6544"],"featImg":"news_11815742","label":"news_26731"},"news_11755352":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11755352","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11755352","score":null,"sort":[1562160068000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"s-f-weighs-35-million-safety-makeover-for-dangerous-south-of-market-corridor","title":"S.F.'s Ambitious Plan to Turn Two Deadly SoMa Streets Into People-Friendly Boulevards","publishDate":1562160068,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, July 3 \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board voted unanimously last month to approve \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6157074/6-18-19-Item-11-Traffic-Modifications-and-Tc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a $35 million plan\u003c/a> to redesign two dangerous South of Market thoroughfares, it was taking a step toward embracing what planners and advocates of pedestrian and cyclists say is the future of the city's fastest-growing neighborhood. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project promises a makeover for major sections of Howard and Folsom streets. The changes feature expansive new bike lanes, improved pedestrian crossings, and sophisticated traffic signaling designed to eliminate conflicts between bicycles and motor vehicles on the two boulevards between Second Street and 11th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project will also create a transit-only lane on Folsom that promises to make Muni bus service more reliable and new \"public realm\" sidewalk areas -- spaces akin to miniparks -- to be designed by community groups along the Howard and Folsom corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main driver for the changes is improving safety: The SFMTA notes that 391 traffic collisions have occurred over the last five years on the two corridors, which span roughly a mile and a half of each street. Of those crashes, 166, or about 40 percent, have involved pedestrians and cyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside those statistics: Three cyclists and three pedestrians have been killed in the corridor since January 2013. Those incidents, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Female-cyclist-killed-after-being-hit-by-truck-in-13673483.php?psid=1GAfn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most recent of which\u003c/a> occurred in March, have spurred demands for heightened safety measures and prompted the city to try a series of mostly short-term fixes to make the two streets safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those immediate measures included \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2019/03/12/after-cyclists-death-city-to-remove-parking-from-two-blocks-of-howard-to-improve-safety/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the rapid expansion\u003c/a> of a parking-protected bikeway along Howard Street after 30-year-old cyclist Tess Rothstein was killed March 8 while riding in an unprotected cycling lane between Fifth and Sixth streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755438\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755438\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a-800x513.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a-1020x654.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a-1200x769.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unprotected bike lane on Folsom Street, between Third and Fourth streets. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Folsom-Howard project, which has been under development for three years, is also driven in part by a recognition that the neighborhoods through which the two streets pass have changed dramatically from the light industrial and warehouse uses that characterized them in the mid-20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both streets are three-lane thoroughfares -- Howard one-way westbound, Folsom one-way eastbound -- that carry a sometimes chaotic mix of commute traffic, trucks making local deliveries and an increasing number of bicycle riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was just a different feel in this area of the city 50 or 60 years ago,\" said SFMTA engineer Paul Stanis, the Folsom-Howard project manager. Over the past couple of decades, the area has been marked by explosive growth in housing and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we're doing is addressing that,\" Stanis said in an interview before the SFMTA board vote on June 18. \"While these streets were designed for vehicles for many decades, we're now designing them for people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reconfiguring the streets will involve reducing the number of traffic lanes from three lanes to two in most areas. About 120 curbside parking spaces would be eliminated -- a typical point of contention for businesses that seek to ensure nearby parking for customers and need to load or unload merchandise and supplies from the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA says it will accommodate businesses by increasing the number of loading zones along the corridor by 20 percent, a feat accomplished by removing some short-term parking and passenger loading zones along the two streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley Dunn, an SFMTA public information officer who did community outreach on the project, said providing more loading zones will solve a chronic problem in the corridor: trucks double-parking or parking in bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We did an initial survey and found that 80 percent of the businesses reported that they either loaded or unloaded in the bike lane or the travel lane,\" Dunn said. \"So fixing that is a boon for local merchants that are already facing a lot of challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest change on the two streets would involve the dramatically improved bicycle infrastructure. The current bike lanes -- some of which are protected by a parking lane that's been shifted to the left from the curbs, some of which are simply painted lines adjacent to traffic lanes -- would be replaced by two-way parking-protected bikeways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intersections along Howard and Folsom will feature new traffic signals -- separate lights to govern the movement of cyclists proceeding straight through an intersection and drivers making turns at the same corner. The signals would eliminate the \"mixing zone\" at intersections, the stretch of pavement where bikes and turning motor vehicles merge across each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755439\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2-1020x720.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2-1200x847.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A \"mixing zone\" -- a point where turning vehicles moves across a bike lane -- at Howard and Seventh streets in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project also includes fresh safety features for pedestrians, including \"bulb-outs\" that reduce the crossing distance at intersections and new, signal-protected midblock crossings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's planning process involved advocacy groups like the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and Walk SF, as well as SoMa community organizations like the sponsor of the Folsom Street Fair, United Playaz and the South of Market Community Action Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Wiedenmeier, the bike coalition's executive director, praised the Howard and Folsom plan as a potential model for reimagining streets throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This really is the highest quality of infrastructure when it comes to bikes, pedestrians and transit that the city has put forward to date,\" Wiedenmeier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that the Folsom and Howard project has combined a series of near-term fixes -- like the parking-protected bike lanes installed recently on Howard Street -- with a broader vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are iterating and learning from these pilot projects as we go, getting improvements in the ground quickly and then learning from those to inform the larger, long-term design,\" Wiedenmeier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project was almost unanimously applauded during public comment at the SFMTA board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But John Elberling, who runs South of Market nonprofit housing developer TODCO, asked the SFMTA board to remove one block from the project -- Howard Street between Fourth and Fifth -- so it could be redesigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the planned two-way bikeway on the block would endanger the 250 residents of TODCO's Woolf House senior housing facility, at Fourth and Howard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot safely assume that they are going to see bicycles coming from both directions,\" Elberling said. \"... In fact, what you can assume is that a significant portion of the time, they won't see them coming.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board approved an amendment from Vice Chair Gwyneth Borden directing SFMTA staff to confer with TODCO and adopt design changes that address the Woolf House safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA board approval of the transformation proposal kicks off a two-year planning process for the city's Public Works department. Construction could begin in 2021 and take about two years to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Proposal for Folsom and Howard streets would expand bike lanes, add sophisticated new traffic controls and include measures to make the thoroughfares safer for cyclists and pedestrians.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1562260164,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1129},"headData":{"title":"S.F.'s Ambitious Plan to Turn Two Deadly SoMa Streets Into People-Friendly Boulevards | KQED","description":"Proposal for Folsom and Howard streets would expand bike lanes, add sophisticated new traffic controls and include measures to make the thoroughfares safer for cyclists and pedestrians.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"S.F.'s Ambitious Plan to Turn Two Deadly SoMa Streets Into People-Friendly Boulevards","datePublished":"2019-07-03T13:21:08.000Z","dateModified":"2019-07-04T17:09:24.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11755352 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11755352","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/07/03/s-f-weighs-35-million-safety-makeover-for-dangerous-south-of-market-corridor/","disqusTitle":"S.F.'s Ambitious Plan to Turn Two Deadly SoMa Streets Into People-Friendly Boulevards","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/07/BrekkeSaferSoMa2way.mp3","audioTrackLength":277,"path":"/news/11755352/s-f-weighs-35-million-safety-makeover-for-dangerous-south-of-market-corridor","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, July 3 \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board voted unanimously last month to approve \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6157074/6-18-19-Item-11-Traffic-Modifications-and-Tc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a $35 million plan\u003c/a> to redesign two dangerous South of Market thoroughfares, it was taking a step toward embracing what planners and advocates of pedestrian and cyclists say is the future of the city's fastest-growing neighborhood. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project promises a makeover for major sections of Howard and Folsom streets. The changes feature expansive new bike lanes, improved pedestrian crossings, and sophisticated traffic signaling designed to eliminate conflicts between bicycles and motor vehicles on the two boulevards between Second Street and 11th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project will also create a transit-only lane on Folsom that promises to make Muni bus service more reliable and new \"public realm\" sidewalk areas -- spaces akin to miniparks -- to be designed by community groups along the Howard and Folsom corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main driver for the changes is improving safety: The SFMTA notes that 391 traffic collisions have occurred over the last five years on the two corridors, which span roughly a mile and a half of each street. Of those crashes, 166, or about 40 percent, have involved pedestrians and cyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside those statistics: Three cyclists and three pedestrians have been killed in the corridor since January 2013. Those incidents, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Female-cyclist-killed-after-being-hit-by-truck-in-13673483.php?psid=1GAfn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most recent of which\u003c/a> occurred in March, have spurred demands for heightened safety measures and prompted the city to try a series of mostly short-term fixes to make the two streets safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those immediate measures included \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2019/03/12/after-cyclists-death-city-to-remove-parking-from-two-blocks-of-howard-to-improve-safety/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the rapid expansion\u003c/a> of a parking-protected bikeway along Howard Street after 30-year-old cyclist Tess Rothstein was killed March 8 while riding in an unprotected cycling lane between Fifth and Sixth streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755438\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755438\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a-800x513.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a-1020x654.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a-1200x769.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-a.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unprotected bike lane on Folsom Street, between Third and Fourth streets. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Folsom-Howard project, which has been under development for three years, is also driven in part by a recognition that the neighborhoods through which the two streets pass have changed dramatically from the light industrial and warehouse uses that characterized them in the mid-20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both streets are three-lane thoroughfares -- Howard one-way westbound, Folsom one-way eastbound -- that carry a sometimes chaotic mix of commute traffic, trucks making local deliveries and an increasing number of bicycle riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was just a different feel in this area of the city 50 or 60 years ago,\" said SFMTA engineer Paul Stanis, the Folsom-Howard project manager. Over the past couple of decades, the area has been marked by explosive growth in housing and employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we're doing is addressing that,\" Stanis said in an interview before the SFMTA board vote on June 18. \"While these streets were designed for vehicles for many decades, we're now designing them for people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reconfiguring the streets will involve reducing the number of traffic lanes from three lanes to two in most areas. About 120 curbside parking spaces would be eliminated -- a typical point of contention for businesses that seek to ensure nearby parking for customers and need to load or unload merchandise and supplies from the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA says it will accommodate businesses by increasing the number of loading zones along the corridor by 20 percent, a feat accomplished by removing some short-term parking and passenger loading zones along the two streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley Dunn, an SFMTA public information officer who did community outreach on the project, said providing more loading zones will solve a chronic problem in the corridor: trucks double-parking or parking in bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We did an initial survey and found that 80 percent of the businesses reported that they either loaded or unloaded in the bike lane or the travel lane,\" Dunn said. \"So fixing that is a boon for local merchants that are already facing a lot of challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest change on the two streets would involve the dramatically improved bicycle infrastructure. The current bike lanes -- some of which are protected by a parking lane that's been shifted to the left from the curbs, some of which are simply painted lines adjacent to traffic lanes -- would be replaced by two-way parking-protected bikeways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intersections along Howard and Folsom will feature new traffic signals -- separate lights to govern the movement of cyclists proceeding straight through an intersection and drivers making turns at the same corner. The signals would eliminate the \"mixing zone\" at intersections, the stretch of pavement where bikes and turning motor vehicles merge across each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755439\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2-1020x720.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2-1200x847.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/howardstreetlanes-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A \"mixing zone\" -- a point where turning vehicles moves across a bike lane -- at Howard and Seventh streets in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project also includes fresh safety features for pedestrians, including \"bulb-outs\" that reduce the crossing distance at intersections and new, signal-protected midblock crossings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's planning process involved advocacy groups like the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and Walk SF, as well as SoMa community organizations like the sponsor of the Folsom Street Fair, United Playaz and the South of Market Community Action Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Wiedenmeier, the bike coalition's executive director, praised the Howard and Folsom plan as a potential model for reimagining streets throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This really is the highest quality of infrastructure when it comes to bikes, pedestrians and transit that the city has put forward to date,\" Wiedenmeier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that the Folsom and Howard project has combined a series of near-term fixes -- like the parking-protected bike lanes installed recently on Howard Street -- with a broader vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are iterating and learning from these pilot projects as we go, getting improvements in the ground quickly and then learning from those to inform the larger, long-term design,\" Wiedenmeier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project was almost unanimously applauded during public comment at the SFMTA board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But John Elberling, who runs South of Market nonprofit housing developer TODCO, asked the SFMTA board to remove one block from the project -- Howard Street between Fourth and Fifth -- so it could be redesigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the planned two-way bikeway on the block would endanger the 250 residents of TODCO's Woolf House senior housing facility, at Fourth and Howard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot safely assume that they are going to see bicycles coming from both directions,\" Elberling said. \"... In fact, what you can assume is that a significant portion of the time, they won't see them coming.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board approved an amendment from Vice Chair Gwyneth Borden directing SFMTA staff to confer with TODCO and adopt design changes that address the Woolf House safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA board approval of the transformation proposal kicks off a two-year planning process for the city's Public Works department. Construction could begin in 2021 and take about two years to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11755352/s-f-weighs-35-million-safety-makeover-for-dangerous-south-of-market-corridor","authors":["222"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_320","news_4096","news_6544","news_18120"],"featImg":"news_11755443","label":"news"},"news_11754578":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11754578","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11754578","score":null,"sort":[1560525622000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-s-f-measure-would-help-protect-mezzanine-and-other-soma-clubs-at-risk-of-closure","title":"New S.F. Measure Would Help Keep Mezzanine and Other SoMa Clubs Alive","publishDate":1560525622,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A new San Francisco measure would protect entertainment venues in the South of Market neighborhood at risk of losing their leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related stories\" tag=\"nightlife\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new legislation, which Supervisor Matt Haney announced Thursday at \u003ca href=\"https://mezzaninesf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mezzanine\u003c/a>, the largest female-owned club in the city, would make it harder for landlords to convert these venues into commercial office spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The popular music venue has been in the neighborhood for 15 years, but is slated to lose its lease in October, and will likely be turned into commercial office space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't tell the owners of this building what they should do and what leases they should sign,\" Haney, who represents the neighborhood, told a receptive crowd. \"But what I can say is, if you want to remove this venue and you want to put offices in here, that you're going to have to go through an added level of process and protections from the city, where we look at this on a case-by-case basis of what's best for the public and community interest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said his resolution would require property owners of entertainment venues in the SoMa neighborhood to seek approval from the city if they want to change what their properties are used for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That means that you've got to go in front of the Planning Commission, and the Planning Commission needs to weigh community benefits, public interest, whether it's right for the neighborhood,\" he said, adding that decisions could then also be appealed to the full Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution is intended as an interim measure to protect venues in the neighborhood facing imminent closure. If passed, it would remain in place for 18 months, at which point longer-term zoning measures could be implemented, Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of these nightlife venues don't actually make that much money,\" he said. \"So you're always gonna be able to make more money by renting your offices to a tech company than you are from an independent music venue. And for that reason we as a community have to stand up and say we need some added protections to make sure that we don't wake up one day and look around, and all of these venues are gone,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mezzanine's owner, Deborah Jackman, said the property owners originally told her they were raising the rent to $60,000 a month, about six times what she currently pays, and now plans to turn it into a commercial office space. She hopes this measure will at least push them to come back to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mezzanine's owners did not respond to requests for comment for this article. But David Chritton, who co-owns the Jessie Street property, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845305/san-francisco-nightclub-mezzanine-will-close-in-2019-after-16-years\">told KQED last November\u003c/a> that he hasn't raised the rent in 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Basically, they can't afford to be here at this site,\" he said. \"They're not making what this site should be. It's just economics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackman said her club is hardly unique: A handful of iconic entertainment venues throughout the city have recently shut down, including the Elbo Room and Hemlock Tavern. And more, she said, are currently facing the very real risk of losing their leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that it's really hard to take a known space and relocate it, \"she said. \"So if this doesn't work out, unfortunately, Mezzanine will be gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fight is about more than just saving her club, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's also the greater picture, and just trying to keep San Francisco relevant and the amazing place that people want to come visit and want to live,\" she added. \"No one's going to come visit San Francisco if it's all office buildings. That's just the bottom line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The measure, introduced by Supervisor Matt Haney, would make it harder for landlords to convert entertainment venues in SoMa into commercial office spaces.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1560552252,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":634},"headData":{"title":"New S.F. Measure Would Help Keep Mezzanine and Other SoMa Clubs Alive | KQED","description":"The measure, introduced by Supervisor Matt Haney, would make it harder for landlords to convert entertainment venues in SoMa into commercial office spaces.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"New S.F. 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Measure Would Help Keep Mezzanine and Other SoMa Clubs Alive","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/06/McKenneySOMAClubsLeg.mp3","audioTrackLength":98,"path":"/news/11754578/new-s-f-measure-would-help-protect-mezzanine-and-other-soma-clubs-at-risk-of-closure","audioDuration":98000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new San Francisco measure would protect entertainment venues in the South of Market neighborhood at risk of losing their leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related stories ","tag":"nightlife"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new legislation, which Supervisor Matt Haney announced Thursday at \u003ca href=\"https://mezzaninesf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mezzanine\u003c/a>, the largest female-owned club in the city, would make it harder for landlords to convert these venues into commercial office spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The popular music venue has been in the neighborhood for 15 years, but is slated to lose its lease in October, and will likely be turned into commercial office space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't tell the owners of this building what they should do and what leases they should sign,\" Haney, who represents the neighborhood, told a receptive crowd. \"But what I can say is, if you want to remove this venue and you want to put offices in here, that you're going to have to go through an added level of process and protections from the city, where we look at this on a case-by-case basis of what's best for the public and community interest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said his resolution would require property owners of entertainment venues in the SoMa neighborhood to seek approval from the city if they want to change what their properties are used for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That means that you've got to go in front of the Planning Commission, and the Planning Commission needs to weigh community benefits, public interest, whether it's right for the neighborhood,\" he said, adding that decisions could then also be appealed to the full Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution is intended as an interim measure to protect venues in the neighborhood facing imminent closure. If passed, it would remain in place for 18 months, at which point longer-term zoning measures could be implemented, Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of these nightlife venues don't actually make that much money,\" he said. \"So you're always gonna be able to make more money by renting your offices to a tech company than you are from an independent music venue. And for that reason we as a community have to stand up and say we need some added protections to make sure that we don't wake up one day and look around, and all of these venues are gone,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mezzanine's owner, Deborah Jackman, said the property owners originally told her they were raising the rent to $60,000 a month, about six times what she currently pays, and now plans to turn it into a commercial office space. She hopes this measure will at least push them to come back to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mezzanine's owners did not respond to requests for comment for this article. But David Chritton, who co-owns the Jessie Street property, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845305/san-francisco-nightclub-mezzanine-will-close-in-2019-after-16-years\">told KQED last November\u003c/a> that he hasn't raised the rent in 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Basically, they can't afford to be here at this site,\" he said. \"They're not making what this site should be. It's just economics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackman said her club is hardly unique: A handful of iconic entertainment venues throughout the city have recently shut down, including the Elbo Room and Hemlock Tavern. And more, she said, are currently facing the very real risk of losing their leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that it's really hard to take a known space and relocate it, \"she said. \"So if this doesn't work out, unfortunately, Mezzanine will be gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fight is about more than just saving her club, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's also the greater picture, and just trying to keep San Francisco relevant and the amazing place that people want to come visit and want to live,\" she added. \"No one's going to come visit San Francisco if it's all office buildings. 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SoMa is home to 5,106 Filipinos, according to 2010 census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It allows us the ability to tell our stories, have the agency to interrogate our stories through our own lens and make ourselves visible on our terms,'\u003ccite>Jason Bayani\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Ligaya Avenida is president of the FADF Board. She urged supervisors to recognize the Filipino community's contributions to the fabric of life in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will validate the presence of the Filipinos who have lived and worked in the corridors of SoMa for decades,\" said Avenida at a press conference outside City Hall before the meeting. \"They have helped make the South of Market what it is today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoMa residents like Juvy Barbonio say SoMa Pilipinas will hopefully go beyond signs and murals and do something to help Filipinos worried about redevelopment and gentrification there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know many people don't experience SoMa the way I see it,\" said Barbonio, who works at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SOMCAN/\" target=\"_blank\">South of Market Committee Action Network\u003c/a>. \"To them it's not a neighborhood. It's the streets you need to get through to get to and from the highway. It's an opportunity to build high-rises close to downtown. ... But it's my neighborhood, like any other Filipino neighborhood, that has beared the brunt of the development pressures in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jane Kim, who authored the ordinance and whose district includes SoMa, said establishing SoMa Pilipinas is a step in the right direction for addressing these redevelopment concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is not just about preserving our history and our culture. It is also talking about how we can use land use controls and economic development tools to make sure our community continues to stay in the South of Market for decades to come,\" said Kim. \"We want to ensure our community leaders, our diversity, get to stay in San Francisco. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"fAeZdGEc13sjEMzOnOwS55ONcAJPWJ8v\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoMa Pilipinas will be bound by Second Street to the east, 11th Street to the west, Market Street to the north and Brannan Street to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Planning Department will work with the SoMa Pilipinas Working Group, consisting of members from various sectors of the community, to develop a set of policies to promote \"sustainability, cultural visibility, vibrancy and economic opportunity for Filipinos in the city,\" according to the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district encompasses the \u003ca href=\"https://fec-sfusd-ca.schoolloop.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bessie Carmichael School/Filipino Education Center\u003c/a>, the first and only public school with curriculum in Filipino, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bindlestiffstudio.org/?q=node/2\" target=\"_blank\">Bindlestiff Studio\u003c/a>, the only Filipino performance art space in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Bayani from\u003ca href=\"http://i52611.wix.com/kearnystreet\" target=\"_blank\"> Kearny Street Workshop\u003c/a>, the oldest Asian-Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization in the country, said organizations like Bindlestiff in SoMa are important spaces for Filipinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's important to have spaces like these for artists of color outside of white-dominated mainstream art spaces,\" said Bayani. \"It allows us the ability to tell our stories, have the agency to interrogate our stories through our own lens and make ourselves visible on our terms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=308415256 key=key-7HUJ4lQhHnShbITrEIfA mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Residents hope SoMa Pilipinas will go beyond signs and murals and help Filipinos worried about gentrification.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1460594315,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":598},"headData":{"title":"Board of Supervisors Establishes SoMa as a Filipino Cultural Heritage District | KQED","description":"Residents hope SoMa Pilipinas will go beyond signs and murals and help Filipinos worried about gentrification.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Board of Supervisors Establishes SoMa as a Filipino Cultural Heritage District","datePublished":"2016-04-13T01:32:00.000Z","dateModified":"2016-04-14T00:38:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10927667 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10927667","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/12/board-of-supervisors-establishes-soma-as-a-filipino-cultural-heritage-district/","disqusTitle":"Board of Supervisors Establishes SoMa as a Filipino Cultural Heritage District","path":"/news/10927667/board-of-supervisors-establishes-soma-as-a-filipino-cultural-heritage-district","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan Tuesday to designate a Filipino cultural heritage district in a South of Market neighborhood, which community leaders hope will not only recognize the Filipino presence there but also preserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.somapilipinas.org/\" target=\"_blank\">SoMa Pilipinas\u003c/a> will include the Gran Oriente, the old International Hotel (it was on Kearny north of Market but is historically important), the Rizal Apartments, the Iloilo Circle Building, the Bayanihan Community Cultural Center and other \"cultural assets\" identified by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayanihancc.org/bcc-fadf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Filipino-American Development Foundation\u003c/a>, which spearheaded the effort. 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