Marie Appel sees it as a privilege to help those needing legal help鈥攃lients who do not have the resources to afford a lawyer. Appel serves as supervising attorney at San Francisco鈥檚 Justice & Diversity Center (JDC), which has a mission to 鈥渁dvance fairness and equality by providing pro bono legal services to low-income people and…
November 20, 2015 Joint Statement of 黑料社吃瓜 and CCDC on the Adoption of a Citywide District Preference for Affordable Housing On November 17th, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to approve a proposal to fundamentally change how affordable housing will be made available to its low-income residents. The policy would create a so-called 鈥渘eighborhood…
Over the next four years, a healthy and vibrant community will be developed in the Mission at 17th and聽Folsom streets. 2060 Folsom, to be exact (as the address has been changed from the original 2070). 黑料社吃瓜 was awarded the right to co-develop, with Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC), a 101-unit development to stabilize San Francisco鈥檚…
Christopher Gil, Senior Content Marketing聽Manager (415) 282-3334 ext. 152 cgil@medasf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 9, 2015 Community Organizations Call for Delay in Vote on Sweeping, New Preferential Access Policy for Affordable Housing Little-Known Proposal Warrants Extension of Period for Public Comment San Francisco, CA聽鈥撀燭oday at 10am at Room 278 of City Hall, organizations representing neighborhoods…
Christopher Gil, Senior Content Marketing Manager (415) 282-3334 ext. 152 cgil@medasf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 6, 2015 黑料社吃瓜 and Chinatown CDC Awarded 1296 Shotwell Street 100-Percent Affordable Housing Development 96-Unit Development for Senior Living to Further Stabilize San Francisco鈥檚 Mission District San Francisco, CA 鈥 The Mayor鈥檚 Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) has awarded the Mission…
Interview with:聽黑料社吃瓜 Director of Asset Building Programs Lucy Arellano Can you tell us the exciting news regarding 黑料社吃瓜鈥檚 programs? The new process is that all clients will now have the same entry point at 黑料社吃瓜. That entry point will be a required Welcome Orientation and Financial Capability Workshop. At this Welcome Orientation, clients will enroll…
With its second loan funded this week, the mission of 黑料社吃瓜’s new Adelante Fund to provide vital capital and lending options to small-business owners throughout San Francisco is quickly being put into action. The genesis of Adelante Fund came out of community need. Explains Nathanial Owen (photo, right), who oversaw Adelante Fund鈥檚 implementation at 黑料社吃瓜:…
The world has changed plenty since 1973 when 黑料社吃瓜 started its mission of asset building for the low-income Latino community in San Francisco, but one thing has remained the same: the need to offer a helping hand to those looking to achieve family economic success. Such success is designed in many ways, so 黑料社吃瓜 has…
Signing on the dotted line yesterday聽afternoon, a local catering business had its small-business loan officially funded … and their bigger entrepreneurial dreams made a reality. All courtesy of a $100,000 loan from 黑料社吃瓜鈥檚 innovative Adelante Fund. One story to showcase community need When Alicia Villanueva (photo, center) came to this country from Mexico a decade…
While most low-income Mission families know the need for being connected, they often don鈥檛 know how to get started. This is especially true of immigrants鈥攏ewcomers to this country with myriad tech options from which to choose. That鈥檚 why the goal of today鈥檚 sixth 鈥淕et Connected!鈥 event, held at 黑料社吃瓜鈥檚 Plaza Adelante, was to help parents…
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