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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco voters will decide on two ballot measures next month that would authorize new public housing, as well as a tax to help pay for it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston introduced the measures and says the vision is to create stability for renters who are priced out of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vision is that you can be a working class person who lives in San Francisco and pays a reasonable percentage of your income to rent,” he said, “and that you will never be forced out of that unit by an eviction, that you will never have sharp rent increases … and that you have security.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Supervisor Dean Preston\"]‘The vision is that you can be a working class person who lives in San Francisco and pays a reasonable percentage of your income to rent, and that you will never be forced out of that unit by an eviction, that you will never have sharp rent increases … and that you have security.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston’s call for new government-owned housing comes amid a \u003ca href=\"https://homesguarantee.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resurgence\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ_WulgST3U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/gnd/public-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interest\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ilhan-omar-introduces-homes-all-act-new-21st-century-public-housing-vision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public housing,\u003c/a> as well as calls to build permanently affordable housing that’s financed by the government but managed by nonprofits, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SocialHousing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social housing\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/2020Nov/20200624_AuthorizingDevelopmentUnderCaliforniaConstitution_Legisla.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop K\u003c/a> would authorize up to 10,000 units of new affordable housing that could be owned or operated by the city. The California Constitution \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=CONS&division=&title=&part=&chapter=&article=XXXIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requires voters to approve\u003c/a> any new low-income housing that receives public funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pay for this new housing, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/2020Nov/20200717_RealPropertyTransferTaxRateIncrease.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prop I\u003c/a> would double the transfer tax on buildings that sell for $10 million or more. The San Francisco Controller’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/2020Nov/Prop%20I%20-%20Transfer%20Tax.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> that if the tax had been in place between 2008 and 2019, it would have generated an average of $196 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the actual amount would vary widely. According to the report, some years would have generated as little as $13 million or as much as $346 million, making it the “most volatile revenue source” in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Shaw, the executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, questioned whether new city-owned housing is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, voters \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco_Creation_of_a_Housing_Trust_Fund,_Proposition_C_(November_2012)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved 30,000 new units\u003c/a> of affordable housing managed by nonprofits and community land trusts. Preston said a new vote is needed to allow the city itself to build and manage that housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a structure in San Francisco of nonprofits and community land trust being the agent and the engine for affordable housing production,” Shaw said. “Why is that not adequate?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said that if the city owns more housing, it would have to hire the staff to develop and manage it. That would cost money, he said, which instead could go to nonprofits and community land trusts — that already have staff in place — to actually build housing instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is the reason for a new model?” Shaw said. “I have yet to hear an explanation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the housing crisis \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818184/bay-area-housing-post-pandemic-whats-in-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expected to get worse\u003c/a> as a result of the pandemic, particularly for low-income people, Preston said the city should have every option on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need all the tools at our disposal,” he said. “And that includes municipal housing as an option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public housing in the United States was \u003ca href=\"https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41654.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first created\u003c/a> as a response to the Great Depression, intended to serve only the poorest families who couldn’t afford rents on the private market. But it faced chronic underfunding from the start. Today, the National Low Income Housing Coalition \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/public-housing-where-do-we-stand#:~:text=Because%20Congress%20has%20failed%20to,public%20housing%20maintenance%20and%20repairs)\">estimates\u003c/a> the country’s existing public housing — a little more than 1 million units — is facing a $70 billion backlog in needed maintenance and repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was no exception. And beginning in 2014, it took advantage of a new federal program to rehab its public housing stock, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/20/how-san-francisco-turned-its-tenements-into-treasures-215391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">turning over all of its federally-subsidized public housing to nonprofits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had an existing structure where the government owned (public housing),” Shaw said. “And we had to then work out so that nonprofits could take over. And it’s been a big success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston said that, ultimately, a new steering committee would decide who would own and operate any new housing authorized by Prop K. 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She did not indicate any intention to boycott or otherwise attempt to stymie this week’s hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Health care coverage for millions of Americans is at stake with this nomination,” Feinstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referencing critical comments Judge Barrett made about a previous ruling upholding the ACA, Feintein said “This well could mean that, if Judge Barrett is confirmed, Americans stand to lose the benefits that the ACA provides.” Addressing Barrett, she added, “I hope you will clarify that in this hearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, 87 year-old Feinstein has angered some California progressives for being too collegial and bipartisan at a time when many Democrats are ready to fight. And some state Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839689/can-feinstein-lead-supreme-court-battle-some-democrats-have-doubts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had doubts\u003c/a> about her ability to lead a fight against Barrett’s nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These Democrats are going to expect our blue votes for this state, we expect them to show up for us and act like the fighters that we need them to be,” said activist Tracey Corder at Monday’s protest. “We are demanding that Dianne Feinstein stand up, stop laying down for these Republicans. 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Dianne Feinstein’s office in San Francisco on Oct. 12, 2020, to demand that Senate Democrats refuse to hold hearings or confirm any new Supreme Court justice until after the presidential inauguration. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Willis called on Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who also sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to publicly reject the hearings and to use every “procedural block to jam processes and delay proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, in her own opening \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-confirmation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>, also focused largely on the ACA and said Republicans “are trying to bypass the will of the voters and have the Supreme Court do their dirty work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not business as usual — this is a power grab,” Willis said at Monday’s protest. “[Senate Republicans] are not thinking about the millions of people across this country that have been impacted by COVID, who have lost jobs, lost their housing and wages, and who have accumulated debt. We need to be talking about relief for our community members, not this Supreme Court nomination until inauguration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11842029\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45314_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Epps-Addison raises her fist\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45314_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45314_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45314_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45314_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45314_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Epps-Addison with the Center for Popular Democracy speaks during a ‘No Confirmation Before Inauguration’ protest outside Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate, led by Trump’s GOP allies, is pushing Barrett’s nomination to a quick vote before Election Day and ahead of the the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, which the Supreme Court is set to hear just one week after the election. Since Republicans have \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/22/romney-supports-holding-a-vote-on-next-supreme-court-nominee-419898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all the votes they need\u003c/a> to move ahead with confirming Barrett, there’s little Democrats can do to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans also hope to seat Barrett quickly enough to hear any legal challenges after the election. Several Democratic senators demanded that Barrett pledge not to take part in any election case. She has made no such commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to tell Sen. Feinstein and the Democrats that our eyes are on them – they must do everything in their power to stop Barrett’s nomination from moving forward,” activist and Richmond City Council member Melvin Willis said in a statement ahead of Monday’s protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The president has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election, and Barrett’s nomination makes this scenario even more plausible. A court with Barrett will not protect our votes; it will protect Trump’s desire to stay in power. We’re calling on Democratic leaders to safeguard the American people’s right to choose our president by stopping this nomination,” Willis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11842038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45317_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Richmond City Councilmember Melvin Willis speaks during a protest outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office in San Francisco on Oct. 12, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45317_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45317_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45317_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45317_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45317_022_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richmond City Councilmember Melvin Willis speaks during a protest outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office in San Francisco on Oct. 12, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an opening \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-confirmation/2020/10/12/922444068/read-sen-feinsteins-opening-statement-on-amy-coney-barrett-s-nomination?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=nprblogsliveamyconeybarrettssupremecourtconfirmation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a> at Monday’s confirmation hearing, Sen. Feinstein, who is the Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat, said the Senate “should not be moving forward on this nomination” until the election is over and the next president has taken office. She did not indicate any intention to boycott or otherwise attempt to stymie this week’s hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Health care coverage for millions of Americans is at stake with this nomination,” Feinstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referencing critical comments Judge Barrett made about a previous ruling upholding the ACA, Feintein said “This well could mean that, if Judge Barrett is confirmed, Americans stand to lose the benefits that the ACA provides.” Addressing Barrett, she added, “I hope you will clarify that in this hearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, 87 year-old Feinstein has angered some California progressives for being too collegial and bipartisan at a time when many Democrats are ready to fight. And some state Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839689/can-feinstein-lead-supreme-court-battle-some-democrats-have-doubts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had doubts\u003c/a> about her ability to lead a fight against Barrett’s nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These Democrats are going to expect our blue votes for this state, we expect them to show up for us and act like the fighters that we need them to be,” said activist Tracey Corder at Monday’s protest. “We are demanding that Dianne Feinstein stand up, stop laying down for these Republicans. Stop acting like it’s business as usual and fight for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11842036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45305_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45305_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45305_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45305_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45305_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45305_008_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activist Tracey Corder holds a sign during a protest outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office in San Francisco on Oct. 12, 2020, to demand that Senate Democrats refuse to hold hearings or confirm any new Supreme Court justice until after the presidential inauguration. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Willis called on Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who also sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to publicly reject the hearings and to use every “procedural block to jam processes and delay proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, in her own opening \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-confirmation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>, also focused largely on the ACA and said Republicans “are trying to bypass the will of the voters and have the Supreme Court do their dirty work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not business as usual — this is a power grab,” Willis said at Monday’s protest. “[Senate Republicans] are not thinking about the millions of people across this country that have been impacted by COVID, who have lost jobs, lost their housing and wages, and who have accumulated debt. We need to be talking about relief for our community members, not this Supreme Court nomination until inauguration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11842029\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45314_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Epps-Addison raises her fist\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45314_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45314_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45314_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45314_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45314_018_KQED_SanFrancisco_NoConfirmationBeforeInauguration_10122020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Epps-Addison with the Center for Popular Democracy speaks during a ‘No Confirmation Before Inauguration’ protest outside Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>A handful of San Francisco leaders and community activists have publicly opposed a plan announced this week by City Attorney Dennis Herrera to block more than two dozen drug dealers from entering the Tenderloin neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan, which must be approved by a state Superior Court, is essentially a restraining order against 28 repeat-offender drug dealers, in an effort to prevent them from entering a roughly 50-square-block area, under penalty of fine or arrest. The civil injunctions will target specific dealers, from cities like Oakland, Hayward and San Jose, who have been known to frequent the neighborhood, selling fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine or heroin, Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mano Raju, SF Public Defender\"]‘We should use our resources to provide meaningful alternatives to street-level dealers – including housing, job training, and employment.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immediately after Herrera made the announcement, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and Public Defender Mano Raju both issued statements saying they don’t believe the plan will be effective. And community activists who have long fought against ‘gang injunctions’ in the city argue this is more of the same punitive approach that the city previously took with gang injunctions, one that will increase police presence and limit civil liberties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Tenderloin residents and community leaders remain desperate for action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the year, 81 people have died in the neighborhood from drug overdoses. And in the city at large, the availability and use of fentanyl is a growing concern. Use of the drug spiked in 2019 — a 70% increase over the previous year — and was the cause of more than half of the city’s 441 overdose deaths, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/More-than-one-person-a-day-died-in-SF-of-an-15529006.php\">San Francisco Department of Public Health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents part of the Tenderloin, says his constituents are exhausted. Haney says he typically sees about 50 people selling and using drugs within just a block of his Hyde Street apartment. And although he has some hesitations about Herrera’s move, he thinks the plan will prompt a much-needed “disruption of the status quo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can have an understanding and a deep belief that the drug war in and of itself is an ineffective response, and … also feel that those folks shouldn’t be coming into this neighborhood day in and day out and doing that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press conference, San Francisco Mayor London Breed voiced her support for the plan, stressing that the Tenderloin “has always had its challenges, but it has never been worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood’s current dismal conditions make sense to Jose Bernal, an organizer who grew up in the Tenderloin and still visits his family and friends there. Bernal used to work at Hospitality House, a local service organization, and knows that, with the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a major disruption of services and available resources, leaving many people more desperate than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks need dire support,” Bernal said. “They need a lot of help and we have to provide that somehow in the context of COVID, with where we’re at right now, because I don’t want our folks dying on the streets of overdoses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Herrera’s plan, Bernal sees overlaps with previous policies he has fought against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"tenderloin\"]As a formerly incarcerated gang member, Bernal advocated against “gang injunctions,” which the city put into effect in 2006 in an effort to prohibit suspected gang members from entering certain “safety zones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benal argued that the injunctions increased police harassment of Black and brown men, violating their civil liberties, while failing to address the root causes of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As opposed to having 40 cops deployed to the Tenderloin at once to arrest these ‘drug dealers,’ what does it look like to have 40 outreach workers at any given time?” Bernal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raju, the city’s public defender, echoes that sentiment, saying additional enforcement of street-level sellers is not the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should use our resources to provide meaningful alternatives to street-level dealers – including housing, job training, and employment,” Raju said in a press release. The focus, he added, should be on “getting at the source of the drug trade, which will continue to produce drugs so long as the demand exists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, District Attorney Boudin says the plan will only target low-level dealers who have already been issued stay-away orders and are in some cases already being prosecuted in active criminal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until the City is serious about treating addiction and the root causes of drug use and selling, these recycled, punishment-focused approaches are unlikely to succeed at doing anything more than making headlines,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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All told, the report found that 33 out of 56 San Francisco city departments benefit from these kinds of nonprofit organizations, which between them have 588 accounts spent on city activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dennis Herrera, San Francisco city attorney\"]'This report makes it clear that pay-to-play has been happening in our city.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those nonprofits have looser transparency requirements, creating a \"pay-to-play\" environment where city department heads could potentially ask city contractors they oversee to donate to the nonprofit, creating a risk that department head would be influenced by that spending when deciding to award multi-million-dollar city contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit could then disburse those funds to be used for city staff appreciation parties in ways that would have otherwise violated city law — if done transparently — or on pet projects of that department head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may have already happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Controller's Office found at least one of these organizations, the San Francisco Parks Alliance, took roughly $1 million in donations from a number of city contractors which were under investigation by the City Attorney's Office for funneling money to the Public Works department for lavish parties, at the behest of former Public Works Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mohammed-nuru/\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a>, who was arrested by the FBI in January on corruption charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those city contractors include the SF Clean City Coalition, Recology, PG&E, Clark Construction, Webcor Construction and Pankow Construction. 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"content": "\u003cp>A lab analyst for the San Francisco medical examiner's office had driven more than 700 miles east toting a sealed bag of drug evidence before he was pulled over for speeding in Washington County, Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Aug. 31 traffic stop, sheriff’s deputies discovered a bag containing “a large crystal looking item,” along with other baggies with suspected crystal meth and white powder.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Former employee of the San Francisco medical examiner's office\"]‘Mr. Volk is just the tip of the iceberg with respect to poor management and bad forensic policy. He is a reflection of the unregulated, and unmonitored management at the office.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputies also found suspected meth pipes and 14 unidentified pills elsewhere in the car. There was also paperwork from the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The analyst, Justin Volk, was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for possession and intent to distribute drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former employees of the San Francisco medical examiner said the apparent theft of drug evidence should have been prevented by the office’s own protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those procedures, however, were not followed in recent years, according to two former employees who worked with Volk. Each one spoke to KQED on the condition of anonymity because they feared that speaking out could lead to reprisal in their current jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former colleagues who worked at the toxicology lab until recently said the lab’s supervisors allowed illicit drugs to pile up in the evidence room, let protocols lapse designed to prevent evidence mishandling and ignored Volk’s increasingly erratic behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Volk is just the tip of the iceberg with respect to poor management and bad forensic policy,” one former employee said. “He is a reflection of the unregulated and unmonitored management at the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volk is on administrative leave and under investigation, according to the city administrator’s office, which oversees the medical examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Failure to Secure and Destroy Illicit Drugs\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When a person dies in a sudden, violent or unexpected way, investigators for the medical examiner’s office often collect and store any drugs found at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security for that kind of evidence is crucial, according to Dr. Nikolas Lemos, the former chief toxicologist for the office, who established rules when he was hired in 2003 on how to treat drug evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We actually implemented very strict protocols for the medical examiner's investigators to account for every pill, every syringe, every crystal they brought into the office,” Lemos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11820340,news_11670624,news_11638866\" label=\"More on Death Investigations From Julie Small\" target=\"_blank\"]Investigators were supposed to create an inventory of the drugs, seal them into ziplock bags and drop them into a secure slot that could only be opened by technicians in the toxicology lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Lemos’ tenure, two lab employees had to be present to retrieve the drugs from the locker, and they were supervised in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always present when junior staff were removing medications and pills,” Lemos said. “I was pretty much like a hawk because I knew that the temptation is great. And the fact is that without supervision, you could just mishandle the evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protocols also included boxing up the evidence and in most cases setting a date for destruction after a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this took place in the lab, in plain sight of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemos said the protocols were designed to prevent even well-trusted staff members from having access to drug evidence without supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot imagine a worse situation than when you are about to destroy medications or pills or drugs, you let somebody into the vault by themselves and they just take whatever they want,” Lemos said. “The supervisor and the chief toxicologist both should be there, taking turns, hands-on supervising this process from start to end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemos resigned in 2016, alleging that he had been been pressured by supervisors to engage in “unlawful practices” at the office. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/news/news//266275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reached a $100,000 settlement\u003c/a> with San Francisco in 2018 for wrongful termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to one source, the office abandoned many of Lemos’ protocols after he left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Erratic Attendance\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Former colleagues said that Volk’s immediate supervisors, Dr. Luke Rodda and Sue Pearring, had received a number of complaints about the lab technician’s behavior over the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whistleblower complaints about specific incidents of lax oversight at the lab, such as the illegal transport of drug evidence in 2017, had also been filed with the city controller, according to a former employee, but no disciplinary action was taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED sent a list of the former employees' specific allegations to the city administrator's office, the city's chief medical examiner, the city controller and Rodda and Pearring. None commented on those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city administrator deferred questions about the toxicology lab’s protocols for drug disposal to the city controller, which launched a review of drug evidence procedures after Volk’s arrest. The controller is expected to make the findings of that review publicly available in mid-October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medical examiner’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7213861-San-Francisco-Office-of-the-Chief-Medical.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protocols\u003c/a> require that two staff members log and sort drug evidence. After a year, that evidence should be “sorted and sent for disposal” by a pair of employees with different job classifications.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\"]Despite repeated complaints to management about how Volk was forcing other employees to pick up the slack, his erratic behavior appeared to former employees to go unpunished.[/pullquote]Volk worked at the lab for 13 years, and during most of that time carried his own workload and got along well with his colleagues, two former co-workers said. But three years ago, his behavior began to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sources close to Volk, including someone who helped train him, said that he was chronically tardy, arriving to work hours late on multiple days of the week, and that he would disappear for hours in the middle of his shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite repeated complaints to management about how Volk was forcing other employees to pick up the slack, his erratic behavior appeared to former employees to go unpunished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volk was at one point required to clock in for his shifts, but that “did not change the behavior,” the former employee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employees were not aware of any other actions taken by supervisors to address problems with Volk.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Access to Drug Evidence Without Oversight\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Volk was “highly favored,” according to former co-workers, who said supervisors allowed him to work alone in the toxicology lab outside of normal work hours, including on weekends. Other lab employees were told they had to get approval in advance to do that and could not enter the lab alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One section of the toxicology lab contains cubicles and offices. Toxicologists perform tests in another section, and a third, glass-enclosed room holds evidence, including illicit drugs. The evidence room is locked, according to former employees, but anyone with a badge to enter the lab can open it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the week, there are plenty of people around who might observe someone going into the evidence stacks,” one source said, “but on the weekend, a person could retrieve drugs from evidence without being detected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another source said that a security camera in the evidence room was not focused on the section where the drugs were kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Backlog of Controlled Substances\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The scheduled destruction of drugs also fell by the wayside after Lemos’ departure, according to former staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pharmaceutical is actual evidence,” one former staff member said. “It wasn’t anything that was regularly tested by the lab, and ultimately just sat there and was an afterthought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lab was moved to a new facility in 2017, and drugs that were no longer required to be stored were destroyed before the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the last time any drug evidence was destroyed, according to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838978\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11838978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS30495_alt_1026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1303\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS30495_alt_1026.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS30495_alt_1026-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS30495_alt_1026-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS30495_alt_1026-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS30495_alt_1026-1536x1042.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco medical examiner's office has been under fire in recent years for a large backlog in death investigations and the loss of its accreditation. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It's been three or four years since anything has been tossed out,” one former toxicologist said. “We shouldn't have a room piling up full of illicit drugs. We know that there's a lure to having that kind of stuff on hand and we just don't want to hold on to it any longer than we have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers said they repeatedly urged lab supervisors Rodda and Pearring to destroy the drug evidence that was years past the date required for storage. The task was “not a priority for the office,” they were told.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>High Turnover\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A number of high-ranking people within the medical examiner’s office have resigned in the last decade over complaints of mismanagement and poor standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, death investigations were lagging, and some families were waiting six months to a year for results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office lost its accreditation with the National Association of Medical Examiners in January 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist, quit working for the office several years ago because, she says, the morale was low at the time and the credibility of the office had suffered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I left, because I saw that it was going to impact not just my work product, but my reputation,” Melinek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She continued, “The repeated problems are management problems. At some point, we have to either have a grand jury inquiry or someone has to look into the operations of the office and make major changes, because this seems to come up every few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the arrest of Volk, San Francisco Public Defender Manohar Raju demanded a review of all criminal cases and convictions that relied on lab work performed by the accused lab analyst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Justice simply cannot happen when the Medical Examiner’s employees — tasked with providing objective and unbiased scientific evidence and opinion — lack integrity,” Raju said in a statement on Sept. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter that same day to San Francisco Mayor London Breed, District Attorney Chesa Boudin estimated that Volk was involved in “testing, collection and preservation of evidence in more than 2,500 law enforcement investigations” comprised of 500 death investigations, 1,200 sexual assault cases and 800 DUI investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the DA said Monday that the office is still investigating the Volk case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our office’s ability to prosecute cases is substantially undermined when individual law enforcement officers, or staff at the medical examiner’s office, engage in serious or potentially criminal misconduct,” the DA's office said in a statement after Volk’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin requested a supplemental budget appropriation of $455,731 to “review every case this analyst was involved in to ensure that no conviction or punishment has been improperly tainted,” and to handle an anticipated surge of appeals of prior convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin has called for a hearing to consider ways to restructure the medical examiner’s office to strengthen the integrity and efficiency of death investigations in San the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no question that problems in the medical examiner's office have plagued San Francisco now for many years,” Peskin said. “It is time to bring about structural reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volk posted $10,000 bail the same day he was arrested in Utah and was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco DA has so far not charged Volk with any crimes that may have occurred in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Nonetheless, state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed concern the bill could make it easier for someone committing statutory rape to get away with it or face fewer consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Senate Minority Leader Shannon Grove, who represents parts of the Central Valley and High Desert, posted a series of tweets earlier this month that both politicized the bill and digitally winked at QAnon believers with the hashtag #SaveOurChildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ShannonGroveCA/status/1300956261454757888\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedophilia is a triggering concept to most people, but for those who believe in QAnon, it lies at the heart of a loose collection of conspiracy theories clustered around the basic premise that President Trump is trying to save the nation from an elite ring of satanic pedophiles, many of whom are in positions of power, like in government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tag any post with #SaveTheChildren or #Pedo, and you blow a dog whistle to QAnon followers who are likely to be so appalled by the charge that they fail to investigate the credibility of the assertion. Given that a larger percentage of \u003ca href=\"https://civiqs.com/reports/2020/9/2/report-americans-pessimistic-on-time-frame-for-coronavirus-recovery\">QAnon believers identify as Republican\u003c/a>, tagging a Democrat as a pedophile can prove fruitful for right-leaning politicians and pundits. Grove was hardly the only Republican to take advantage of this fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1305488429745139713\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener quickly found himself on the receiving end of a wave of angry tweets, Instagram messages, death threats, doxxing (digital publication of his home address and similar information) and insulting memes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats, liberals, anyone who disagrees with them, they proclaim a pedophile,” said Wiener, who along with his communications director has been posting some of the worst attacks he’s received on Twitter to publicize the fact he’s being targeted. These include \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/catrionastew/status/1301977918000701440\">luridly anti-Semitic memes (warning: this content may be upsetting)\u003c/a> designed to stoke a variety of prejudices, along with rage over pedophilia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who are spreading misinformation, people who are obsessed with fake conspiracy theories, they’re the ones with no boundaries. They don’t care. They’ll say anything about anyone,” said Wiener, who estimates he’s received more than 500 death threats since he introduced SB 145.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said one person threatened to decapitate him and send his head to his mother. Wiener said he informed law enforcement and contacted Instagram and Facebook to take down offending posts and accounts, but to little effect. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702239/why-its-so-hard-to-scrub-hate-speech-off-social-media\">Hate speech policing\u003c/a> is a game of whack-a-mole, and in recent weeks, the threats have moved to Reddit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1291406903684157441\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that matter, fact-checking misinformation is also a game of whack-a-mole. Those likely to read a correction of the public discourse in \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-sb-145-does-not-legalize-pe/fact-check-california-bill-does-not-legalize-pedophilia-idUSKBN25V222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters\u003c/a> are unlikely to be the same people sharing or otherwise reacting to vitriolic attacks on social media platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An elected official — it’s sort of part and parcel of the job to be subjected to some form of critique. But severe harassment, threats of violence, death threats — in American society, that’s not something that we should learn to tolerate and accept,” said Seth Brysk, a regional director for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-Defamation League\u003c/a>, which closely follows all types of hate speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brysk said Wiener would be a target of QAnon even if he weren’t a gay, Jewish Democrat running for reelection in San Francisco, although it does figure in to the heinous language and imagery aimed at Wiener online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The larger problem, Brysk said, is the normalization of violence in political discourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener isn’t the first California lawmaker to find himself the target of weaponized misinformation. State Sen. Richard Pan of Sacramento was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768991/anti-vaccine-activist-assaults-state-sen-richard-pan-posts-video-to-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attacked by anti-vaxxers\u003c/a> who resent his efforts to tighten vaccination mandates in recent years. Pan didn’t back down, and Wiener said he won’t either.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Wiener quickly found himself on the receiving end of a wave of angry tweets, Instagram messages, death threats, doxxing (digital publication of his home address and similar information) and insulting memes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats, liberals, anyone who disagrees with them, they proclaim a pedophile,” said Wiener, who along with his communications director has been posting some of the worst attacks he’s received on Twitter to publicize the fact he’s being targeted. These include \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/catrionastew/status/1301977918000701440\">luridly anti-Semitic memes (warning: this content may be upsetting)\u003c/a> designed to stoke a variety of prejudices, along with rage over pedophilia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who are spreading misinformation, people who are obsessed with fake conspiracy theories, they’re the ones with no boundaries. They don’t care. They’ll say anything about anyone,” said Wiener, who estimates he’s received more than 500 death threats since he introduced SB 145.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said one person threatened to decapitate him and send his head to his mother. Wiener said he informed law enforcement and contacted Instagram and Facebook to take down offending posts and accounts, but to little effect. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702239/why-its-so-hard-to-scrub-hate-speech-off-social-media\">Hate speech policing\u003c/a> is a game of whack-a-mole, and in recent weeks, the threats have moved to Reddit.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "What’s Lost in Bay Area Asian Culture When SF Eviction Moratorium Ends?",
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"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",
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"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>",
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"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>",
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"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. 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"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>",
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[aside tag=\"2020-wildfires\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Layers of smoke have been wafting into the region over the past few days from nearby fires, specifically those burning north of the region, including the North Complex Fire east of Chico, the August Complex Fire in the Mendocino National Forest, and even as far as southern Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is an unprecedented scenario in the Bay Area,\" Garcia said. \"We have seen worse air quality, but the duration of unhealthy air quality is something we have not seen before in recorded history around the Bay Area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said it's important that people take the unhealthy air warnings seriously, and make sure to \"take care of themselves and take care of each other.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday and Wednesday, layers of smoke aloft, and marine layer fog below it, caused \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969409/no-you-didnt-wake-up-to-the-apocalypse-wildfire-smoke-turns-bay-area-sky-orange-and-dark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area skies to appear orange and dark.\u003c/a> The phenomenon made news headlines across the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoggy conditions will persist until the region sees enough wind to scour out the atmosphere, which we may not see until early next week, according to Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the smoke cover and lower temperatures are preventing a sea breeze we'd normally get from the Pacific Ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So we are not expecting the types of winds that we would typically get in our area today or tomorrow,\" Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service says smoke is expected to begin dispersing by Sunday, but especially on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The several consecutive days of extremely poor air quality has local officials concerned about public health effects, and are warning residents to stay indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muir Woods, Alcatraz Island and Fort Point are among the outdoor spaces closed Friday due to poor air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, San Francisco opened up several weather relief centers for those who cannot shelter indoors, and Muni buses are free Friday to make traveling to those sites easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SF_emergency/status/1304471157077278720\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, some COVID-19 city testing sites have been forced to close Friday afternoon due to the air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press briefing Friday, Executive Director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management Mary Ellen Carroll said, \"We are still in a global pandemic and testing is considered an essential activity. However, we are closing our SoMa testing site and the community mobile testing sites in Western Addition and OMI,\" short for Ocean View-Merced-Ingleside. Carroll added that the closures were at the request of the city's community partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is also asking residents to avoid adding additional air pollution by curtailing certain activities such as lawn mowing, leaf blowing, driving and barbecuing as well as other dust producing activities. \"Avoid using hairspray or doing any painting indoors today. And if possible, utilize your stove fan if you're cooking,\" Carroll said. 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Some outdoor programs and facility operations have also been suspended, including at the International Swim Center and city athletic fields and skate park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Regional Park District hasn’t closed parks but is advising visitors to minimize or refrain from spending time outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, because of the air quality, the San Francisco office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and support centers in San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Rosa are closed Friday for in-person services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also closed on Friday is Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley for horse racing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has extended its Spare the Air Alert, making it illegal to use fireplaces or any other wood-burning devices through Sept. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StarkKev/status/1304494865703555072\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay City News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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