Iesha Ena (right), of the Samoan Community Development Center, claps during a press conference outside City Hall on Tuesday, Jin San Francisco, Calif. Judy Young, executive director of the Tenderloin-based Southeast Asian Development Center, which provides employment, counseling and after-school services to approximately 600 Laotian, Cambodian and Thai residents annually, said the center is one of the underresourced organizations the API Equity Fund could help keep going. Wong said the inclusion of Pacific Islander residents was important, and noted that they too struggle with housing and underemployment. “This opportunity now with the softening of commercial property markets, and a great amount of demonstrated community need, will really ensure that our services will have a home for decades to come.” “We’re looking for real action, some real implementation by the city that’ll help API communities,” Wong told The Chronicle. Gabrielle Lurie/The ChronicleĬalled the API Equity Fund, it would be used to acquire land and property to ensure some of the nonprofits can sustain operations in an expensive city, said Cally Wong, executive director of the API Council. Supervisor Connie Chan unveils legislation to create an API Equity Fund, a multimillion-dollar investment in Asian and Pacific Islander communities and nonprofits over the next two years, during a press conference outside City Hall on Tuesday, Jin San Francisco, Calif. If approved by the 11-member Board of Supervisors, the fund would financially support the work of local nonprofits that serve approximately 250,000 low-income Asian and Pacific Islander residents. The proposed legislation would create a $118 million equity fund using money from the city’s $294 million “fiscal cliff reserve,” which the mayor’s office established to manage budget shortfalls and which consists of unspent federal and state COVID relief aid. “We strongly demand community investments and the inclusion of the Vietnamese, Filipino, Samoan and many other API groups in this,” Chan said at the Tuesday news conference. Supervisor Connie Chan and her co-sponsors, Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Gordon Mar, unveiled the legislation - which has support from the API Council, a 57-member coalition of local nonprofit organizations - in front of City Hall on Tuesday.
More than four months after San Francisco formally apologized for decades of sanctioned discrimination against early Chinese residents, three city supervisors are proposing to invest $118 million in the Asian and Pacific Islander communities that live here today. Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle Show More Show Less Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of2Ībby Chen holds up a poster supporting legislation to invest millions of dollars in San Francisco’s Asian and Pacific Islander communities over the next two years outside City Hall on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Supervisor Ahsha Safai discusses a proposal to invest $118 million in San Francisco’s Asian and Pacific Islander communities during a press conference outside City Hall on Tuesday, June 14, 2022.
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