AND THE COMMUNITY WILL RISE

Chinatown’s Ping Yuen buildings were the first high-rise public housing in the U.S. built in 1952, and provide crucial affordable housing for the community. The Chinatown Community Development Center, as well as other service and advocacy organizations, have provided the organizing base for Chinatown’s role as fertile ground for movements across issues such as affordable housing, exclusionary immigration policies, low wage workers’ rights, bilingual education, environmental justice, and the survival of community-based economies.

And the Community Will Rise embodies the significant role that residents and advocates for public housing play in ensuring the social, political, and cultural integrity of San Francisco in the face of the current housing crisis, gentrification and displacement threatening the city. Timing is crucial as San Francisco is witnessing growing evictions of low-income residents, and as neighborhoods inhabited for decades by generations of communities of color face displacement.