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SFCLT is a membership-based organization whose mission is to create permanently affordable, resident-controlled housing for low- to moderate-income people in San Francisco through community ownership of the land.

"Tenants of an affordable housing complex will become home owners - rehab construction to begin in Chinatown"
Chuck Ng, Ming Pao Reporter
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Ming Pao San Francisco

Asian Law Caucus, Mayor's Office, San Francisco Land Trust, Chinatown Resource Center and tenant representatives held a press conference at 53 to 55 Columbus, San Francisco, to celebrate their building becoming the first tenants owned affordable housing development. The interior rehab construction for the 21 units is estimated to complete in 6 months. Asian Law Caucus' headquarter will move into the site, helping the agency in providing better service to the Chinatown residents.

"Chinatown building may be bought by tenants"
Emily Francher, SF Examiner
February 6, 2006

Chungyau Poon, 77, has lived in the Fong Building on Columbus Avenue since he arrived in the United States from Hong Kong in 1972.

Despite the cracked walls and bare light bulbs, he can't beat the $360-a-month rent for a two-bedroom he shares with his family.

Poon feared eviction when City College of San Francisco bought the building in 1998 with the intention of demolishing it to build a new campus on the site.

But he's resting easier these days.

San Francisco Community Land Trust, a nonprofit, is on the verge of purchasing the building on behalf of Poon and other tenants through an innovative approach to create permanently affordable homeownership.

"Reaching for the American Dream Chinatown renters unite to own homes"
Vanessa Hua, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

For a decade, Ji Jian-guang and his wife feared losing their cramped, two-bedroom Chinatown apartment.

Their home, where their adult sons share a bunk bed and thick tape holds a bathroom window inside its rotting wood frame, is typical of other apartments in the neighborhood, but families like the Jis have few housing options. Ji says he couldn't live outside this neighborhood where community groups and businesses cater to more than 18,000 residents -- many monolingual immigrants like him.

So this spring, Ji, his wife, Ru Mei Peng, and a dozen other families joined a land trust designed to improve living conditions for the poor and make home ownership a financial possibility.

"21 units, affordable forever"
Sarah Phelan
SF Bay Guardian
May 23, 2006

After eight years of stressing about being evicted from the rent-controlled Fong Building on Columbus Street, Chungyau Poon, 77, can finally relax.

On May 16, in its first deal since incorporating three years ago, the San Francisco Community Land Trust purchased the historic 21-unit building, where Poon has lived for three and a half decades in the shadow of the Transamerica Pyramid. About 50 Cantonese people, including seniors and their families, reside in the building.

San Francisco Community Land Trust | P.O. Box 420982 | San Francisco, CA 94142

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