San Francisco Cultural Districts

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San Francisco Cultural Districts are neighborhoods of San Francisco, California that are officially designated by the City and County of San Francisco government. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] The Cultural Districts Program oversees the designations and support for the neighborhoods. [8] [9] These neighborhoods receive special funding and support for community programs and preservation from the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development. [10]

Official designations began in 2013 with Japantown. Later an official program was created. After the program to support the neighborhoods was created by the Mayor and Board of Supervisors in May 2018, city voters also passed Proposition E in November 2018 in support of the program. [11] [12] A goal of the designations and corresponding program are to prevent gentrification. [13]

List of Neighborhoods

The following are the neighborhoods and years that they received the designation: [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "How Do Cultural Districts Work?". The San Francisco Standard. 2021-03-18. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  2. ↑ writer, Carmela Guaglianone | Examiner staff. "Plans for a new cultural district announced by Supervisor Shamann Walton". San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  3. ↑ Reeves, Breanna (2017-07-14). "New cultural districts announced in SoMa and Mission". Curbed SF. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  4. ↑ Singh-Kurtz, Sangeeta (2018-05-03). "San Francisco is officially LGBTQ—but what about black and Chinese?". Quartz. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  5. ↑ "San Francisco gives cultural status to leather, gay district". NBC News. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  6. ↑ Charnock, Matt. "San Francisco now has an official LGBTQ Leather District". Time Out San Francisco. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  7. ↑ Quirin, Courtney (2014-01-02). "Plans For Latino 'Cultural Corridor' on 24th Street". Mission Local. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  8. 1 2 "Cultural Districts Program | San Francisco". sf.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  9. 1 2 Rezal, Adriana; Kwon, Jenny (2022-12-04). "This map shows the boundaries of each of San Francisco's 10 cultural districts". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
  10. ↑ Cultural district definition SF Cultural Districts
  11. ↑ "Legal Text of Local Ballot Measures for November 6, 2018, Consolidated General Election" (PDF). San Francisco elections.
  12. ↑ Fracassa, Dominic (21 November 2018). "With a few votes left to count in SF election, leaders remain the leaders". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  13. ↑ "New SF 'Cultural Districts' Ordinance Aims to Counteract Gentrification". KQED. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
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