The Jobs-Housing Linkage Fee is a legislation from 1996 that is meant to fund housing construction to offset the demand for housing that new office employment creates.
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A series of block parties scheduled on the last Saturday of the month until October on Natoma Street, between 6th and 7th.
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It is important for the entire population of the country, regardless of citizenship or immigration status, to be counted.
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The Gene Friend Recreation Center is the only recreation center in the entire South of Market.
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The sites with votes become a priority and the sites with the most votes will get developed into various spaces for the community.
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The mural artists, Mel Vera Cruz and England Hidalgo, have promoted the collective goal of achieving this project completely through volunteer community efforts.
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“The working class is powerful. We can create change and it doesn’t always have to be like this.”
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What is the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act?
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SOMCAN and Allies Rally to Demand Transit Justice
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Interview with Mary Ann Masagca
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SOMCAN Recommits to Strengthening Its Membership Program
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This article appears in the July 2018 issue of Kapitbahay Times, the monthly newsletter of the South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN).
Read MoreThe Central SoMa Plan represents a plan by and for developers, not the existing community in the South of Market. The plan prioritizes office space for tech companies and new luxury, market-rate housing.
Read MoreSince 1992, Orlando De Vera, the Bustos family, and the Bonifacio family have lived in the apartments at 657-659 Natoma Street. Mr. De Vera says they “all came from the village of Masantol near Angeles City in the Philippines” and recreated their village within the walls of their adopted home.
Read MoreThe Excelsior district is one of the last remaining neighborhoods in San Francisco that has a large concentration of working-class Filipino and Latino families. Despite the current challenges of gentrification and displacement, there are ways to mitigate these ongoing threats and stabilize vulnerable populations.
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This article appears in the August 2018 issue of Kapitbahay Times, the monthly newsletter of the South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN).
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This article appears in the August 2018 issue of Kapitbahay Times, the monthly newsletter of the South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN).
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