The Our City, Our Home initiative was created to address the homelessness crisis in San Francisco.

SOMCAN ushered in the Year of the Boar with a New Year’s party for current and prospective members and their families.

Year after year, San Francisco’s remaining working-class community has bore the brunt of ever-increasing MUNI bus fares, declining reliability and safety, and sharp increases in traffic congestion and smog due to the privatization of the city’s transit system.

The Filipino community is still in mourning from the passing of pioneering community historian Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, who died unexpectedly from an asthma attack on August 10, 2018.

Known as the Our City, Our Home initiative, the measure would levy an average of about 0.5 percent in gross receipts tax on corporate revenues above $50 million.

California has one the most expensive rental markets in the country.

Proposition 10, also known as the Local Rent Control Initiative, repeals the 1995 Costa Hawkins Act -- a law that that prohibits most units built after 1995 from being rent-controlled.

Adriel Nulud and Nikki Embalzado first got involved with SOMCAN through the 2018 Land is Life program, a summer internship for high school youth to explore environmental and social issues relating to working-class, immigrant communities in San Francisco.

For the past year, SOMCAN’s Youth Organizing for Home and Neighborhood Action (YOHANA) has been leading a campaign around pedestrian and night safety, in response to young people and families feeling unsafe while walking around in their own neighborhood.

The Excelsior district is one of the last remaining neighborhoods in San Francisco that has a large concentration of working-class Filipino and Latino families. Despite the current challenges of gentrification and displacement, there are ways to mitigate these ongoing threats and stabilize vulnerable populations.

The Gran Oriente Filipino Hotel, first established as a fraternal lodge allowing early Filipino immigrants in the 1920s to exercise their agency, is now a permanent affordable housing site in San Francisco.

As SOMCAN's Workers Organizer, Kiko's role will be to counsel workers, educate and inform them on their rights, and connect them with the appropriate resources and supportive services.

On the evening of July 3rd, as Downtown office workers headed home amidst rush hour, tenants facing eviction, advocates, and concerned community members gathered…

What comes to mind when you hear the word “leader”? Someone high up on a pedestal? Super-confident? Everything comes easy to them?

As part of the Catalyst Project's Anne Braden Program for White organizers, Anakh Sul Rama recently chose to partner with SOMCAN, as a "people-of-color-led organization", to raise money to ease the burden of fundraising and allow staff to focus more on their mission.

The proposed massive rezoning will unload thousands of new jobs, office spaces, luxury housing units, and high-income residents into an area that is already facing extreme displacement from development and will further push out working-class families and people of color.

Since 1992, Orlando De Vera, the Bustos family, and the Bonifacio family have lived in the apartments at 657-659 Natoma Street.

Longtime SoMa resident Grace Waye is a loving mom, grandma, and wife, a dedicated friend, and an active volunteer in the local community.

We've been very fortunate to welcome back Lourdes Figueroa to the SOMCAN staff! Lourdes has resumed her former role as Case Worker for our Familias Unidas program, providing Spanish-language outreach, referrals, and support for our Latino members and their families.