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Aileen Lee: “It’s more challenging than probably any time that I can think of in the past decade or maybe more for startups to sell.”LaTresha Tanner, outreach coordinator with the Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates: “The responses I’m getting, people don’t know about it.”
Tanner and her colleagues have been striking up similar conversations for the past several months, hoping to spread the word about San Francisco’s recently launched effort to help low-income residents replace gas appliances — such as water heaters, furnaces and stoves — with their electric counterparts.
But there is still a lot of ground to cover: A survey commissioned by the Environment Department conducted late last year found that many San Francisco residents remain unaware of The City’s efforts will “only be effective if people understand what’s coming, and we haven’t put enough effort into letting people know what’s coming,” she said.
Pierce worries that once the bans kick in, low-income residents whose gas appliances break will be in for a rude shock when they realize they will need to figure out how to install a new type of appliance — It’s a complex set of challenges that means that no two home-electrification projects are exactly the same.
“To live in San Francisco on its own is a lot,” she said during a conversation with outreach workers. “So, any help that I can get — or that anyone can get — I’m sure that they’d be appreciative of that.” Zachary Frial, who represents South of Market Community Action Network in the Climate Equity Hub, expressed measured confidence that the tricky funding challenges facing electrification projects can be overcome.
The Examiner spoke to roughly a dozen Asian American leaders and community advocates across The City’s political spectrum who acknowledged an escalating fracture inside the community — one that mirrors the ideological tug-of-war in San Francisco politics as The City heads into the November election. They alleged that moderates in power are abusing the electorates’ fears for their own political gain.
“I think that the issue of safety has been brought front and center, and people are really concerned about it. I also think that there have been forces that have used this as an opportunity to push a certain agenda,” said Claire Lau, an organizer with the Chinese Progressive Association. Tu, who graduated from Menlo College in 2019, began her professional life in the health-care industry. Before the pandemic, she said, she was politically agnostic, simply identifying as a Democrat and not knowing the difference between a progressive and a moderate.Then she watched the video of Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thai American, being violently pushed to the ground and killed in San Francisco in January 2021.
“To me it feels like they’re uplifting me as a young leader,” Brega explained. “I mean, I know my values. I know what I want to see in The City I live in. I know what change I want to see.” “Chesa Boudin has no business winning in 2019,” David Ho said. “He only won because Suzy Loftus and Nancy Tung couldn’t get their stuff together. That’s a correction. Voters always want a moderate mayor and moderate DA.”— who became the first non-Asian American to represent The City’s Sunset district in more than 20 years — was a turning point in Asian American politics.
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