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Dr. Albert Yu shows off an exam room at Chinatown Public Health Center with a portable air-conditioning unit on the counter at right and a fan on the floor at left.
“Without the bond funding, there will be no rebuild,” said Dr. Albert Yu, chief health officer for the department of public health and former medical director of the Chinatown Public Health Center.The Chinatown Public Health Center — largely a primary-care hospital — is one of three entities catering to the 180,000 Chinese Americans living in San Francisco, or roughly a fifth of The City’s population.
“Trying to tell someone who has been eating two bowls of rice every meal for decades that they need to cut back is like telling them to cut their toes off,” Le said. She said doctors could speak to types of noodles and rice for patients to avoid. That connection has built a trust between staff and patients that has made the public health center a pillar of Chinatown, said Malcolm Yeung, executive director of the Chinatown Community Development Center.
Beyond desperately needed seismic retrofitting, advocates said. the building’s most pressing problem is its lack of resilience against extreme weather, a concernMost of San Francisco’s structures were built for a Mediterranean climate, not for an area that has experienced more yearly extreme heat — defined by The City as any day during which the average temperature exceeds 85 degrees — and poor air quality than ever before.
As a workaround in some rooms, staffers have engineered a makeshift cooling devices by running plastic tubes from giant air-conditioning units to vents on the ceiling, securing them with duct tape and zip ties.Portable air conditioner unit inside Chinatown Public Health Center at 1490 Mason Street in San Francisco on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. Yu and Le said room temperatures frequently rise to above 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
It’s pressing both for children — whose social lives were thwarted by the pandemic — and adults, many of whom remain scarred by experiences during China’s cultural revolution or immigration trauma, according to Nancy Lim, former director of the Chinatown Child Development Center. “I would just hope that San Francisco can see the breadth and the quality of services that we provide, even with our limited resources,” she said. “But just imagine how much more we could do if we didn’t have to spend so much day-to-day operational time, managing small buyers here and there. I really think that we would be able to provide even better services than we already do, and I’m hopeful San Franciscans can see that.
San Francisco RV residents and homelessness advocacy groups gathered Tuesday in front of City Hall to protest the proposal, which some have argued would further displace unhoused people already struggling to find a safe place to park their vehicles amid The City’s ongoing crackdown on homelessness. making their dissatisfaction known before and during the board meeting.RV dwellers take part in a rally with their advocates outside City Hall on Tuesday ahead of an SFMTA board meeting.
Parking overnight for large vehicles between midnight and 6 a.m. is already prohibited in certain areas, but SFMTA is currently unable to tow these vehicles without warrants.. The current waitlist is more than 500 families, according to the latest numbers from the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
“If today passes, I just don’t know what else to do,” he said during the rally prior to the meeting. “I have a surgery coming up, and I looked everywhere for parking, and it was impossible.” “We really need to be working together to establish places where people could go, and a citywide ban will just create chaos,” said Christin Evans, the vice chair of the Homelessness Oversight Commission during public comment at Tuesday’s meeting. “We really need to pause and think how we’re going to approach addressing the over 1,400 people that are living in their vehicles in San Francisco tonight.
Blanca Catalan, a SFUSD parent and Coleman Advocates organizer, said families have not been invited to participate in the district’s Resource Alignment Initiative, its name for the process for closing, merging and consolidating school sites. Coleman Advocates reported that more than 80% of respondents to a survey distributed earlier this year said they wanted an opportunity to choose their children’s new schools should their old ones close, and many voiced concerns over transportation and how teachers would be trained to handle an influx of students.“We were the first to come out, along with our partners, out against school closures,” Coleman Advocates Executive Director Chris Ballard told The Examiner.
“This was SFUSD’s most extensive community engagement process in recent memory,” a SFUSD spokesperson told The Examiner. Brandie Bowen of Coleman Advocates speaks Wednesday at the nonprofit’s rally outside SFSUSD headquarters on Franklin Street. Patrick Mendoza, a math teacher at San Francisco Community School, said he started teaching at the K-8 school just last month. He told The Examiner that he wasn’t aware of the school-closures process before his hiring, learning about it from students and parents who advocated against it.
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