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Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to Episode 2 of the Brightline
Podcast, which explores San Francisco Chinatown.
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As the oldest
and largest Chinese community in North America, San Francisco’s
Chinatown is defined by a history of poverty, prejudice, and community
resilience.
Your hosts Aubrey and Maya explore
environmentalism and environmental justice in Single-Room Occupancy
(SRO) hotels, which house low to very low-income tenants. In this
episode, we’ll take a look at what it’s like to live in such extreme
density, why open space is a critical resource for residents, and how
local communities are tackling escalating environmental health crises.
Thanks to Meifeng Deng, Gordon Chin, Malcolm Yeung, and the Chinatown
Community Development Center for their participation in this exciting
project!
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“That’s
history, that’s culture, that’s housing, that’s
health...that’s Chinatown, man.”
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-Gordon Chin, founding director of Chinatown
Community Development Center
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Founding
CCDC director Gordon Chin also tells the amazing story of
how his family knew Baby Bruce Lee - showing how it's a
small world, especially so in Chinatown.
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ICYMI: Brightline Featured in SF Examiner
Also
related to heightened visibility around anti-Asian violence and
language in the last year, the Brightline Air Quality Program serves communities
threatened by not only climate change but also violent racism.
As mentioned in the Brightline Podcast, CCDC and Brightline have
partnered to install local sensors to serve San Francisco Chinatown as
well.
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SRO Tenant Leader Reggie Reed, left, and Eddie Ahn,
Executive Director of Brightline Defense, distributing air quality
posters throughout the Tenderloin, Mid-Market and South of Market
neighborhoods. (Courtesy Central City SRO Collaborative)
The Brightline
Podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts, including APPLE AND SPOTIFY. If you’d like to support the work we do, give us a
follow and leave a review.
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Defense Project
1028A
Howard Street
San
Francisco, CA 94103
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