Two out men will have a hand in reconfiguring San Francisco s political map as members of the city s decennial redistricting task force. Their work will redraw the boundaries for the city s 11 supervisorial districts ahead of the fall races next year for the even-numbered seats.
Another member of the LGBTQ community could join the 2021-2022 Redistricting Task Force depending on whom Mayor London Breed appoints to three of its nine seats. She has until July 31 to announce her trio of picks to the panel, which is expected to begin meeting in August.
It has until April 15 to complete its work reshaping the boundaries for the supervisor districts. A separate state body will redraw the city s two Assembly districts and one state Senate seat, as well as the two congressional districts that currently include parts of San Francisco.
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Asian Organizations Across Bay Area Join Forces to Demand Action Against Violence
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SAN FRANCISCO A coalition of 70 Asian American community organizations, mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area, issued the following statement on Feb. 9.
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We, the undersigned organizations, denounce violence against members of Asian American communities in San Francisco, Oakland, and the greater Bay Area. We stand in solidarity with victims, survivors, and families who have suffered loss and pain.
These violent assaults have made the especially difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic even more painful. From our Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese elders to our youth, our Asian American communities are traumatized, afraid, and outraged during a time when we are also experiencing disproportionate impacts of the pandemic. These include mass unemployment, safety risks to frontline workers, insecure housing, the shuttering of our local small businesses, and a surge in anti-Asian racis
S.F. Chinatown may be lost forever : Leaders plead for more financial aid from city
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Businesses closed along Grant Avenue in Chinatown on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in San Francisco, Calif.Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
Chinatown community leaders are calling on Mayor London Breed to provide financial aid to the historic neighborhood’s restaurants and small businesses, arguing many won’t survive the pandemic without millions of dollars in grants and investment.
In a letter sent on Monday, nine organizations asked Breed to support Chinatown as the city has supported the Latino community during the pandemic. They want $5.3 million in grants to help Chinatown small businesses keep employees on payroll; $4.2 million to partner with a nonprofit like SF New Deal to work specifically with Chinatown restaurants to feed the neighborhood’s most vulnerable residents; and $2 million to go toward revitalizing Chinatown tourism after the pandemic.
Inside the existential crisis of Chinatowns across America Claire Wang © Provided by NBC News
Over the past year, the Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly altered the streetscapes of America’s Chinatowns, transforming these working-class bastions into ghost towns, protest zones, then open-air cafeterias.
Even before much of the United States went into lockdown in March, these historic neighborhoods were taking a hit. As early as Lunar New Year, when many businesses make a large share of their annual revenue, merchants across the country were reporting declining profits; by the time stay-at-home orders were implemented, some had lost up to 70 percent of their sales, due to anti-Asian bigotry, fears of the virus and a sharp drop in international tourism.
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