APEX Express
A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. This week we feature APIENC’s Dragonfruit Podcast focused on AAPI queer elders and their activist stories.
Dragon Fruit Podcast Episode 1 | Sharing our Harvest: Fruits of QTAPI Movement Organizing
Miko Lee: Good evening. This is Miko Lee, and you’re listening to apex express where we focus on the Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences. Tonight we’re proud to present the dragon fruit project, an international project that explores queer Asian and a Pacific Islanders and their stories about love and activism in the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties.
Affordable housing in S.F. s Sunset District? Supes take step toward making it happen
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The Police Credit Union at 2550 Irving St., pictured Jan. 14, is a proposed site for a 7-story affordable housing project in the Sunset District.Scott Strazzante/The Chronicle
The city’s contentious push to build affordable housing on San Francisco’s west side got a significant boost Wednesday when a Board of Supervisors committee approved the acquisition of a Sunset District parcel slated for 98 low-income family apartments.
Despite concerns from immediate neighbors about potential toxic substances in the soil, the lack of parking spots and the proposed seven-story building’s sun-blotting impact on the neighboring homes, the three-member committee voted unanimously to recommend that the full board approve a $14.3 million loan to buy 2550 Irving St., currently a San Francisco Police Credit Union branch. The parcel itself will cost $9 million, with the rest of the money