Is Chinatown going the way of San Francisco? With more and more tech workers moving into San Francisco and more tech industries calling San Francisco home, many low income residents are finding fewer options for low income housing.
Many are being pushed out of the city.
The recent closure of the longstanding Empress of China building in Chinatown is to some symbolic of a larger issue facing the city. The building has been empty since the start of the New Year. There’s even talk the building in the heart of Chinatown could be taken over by the tech industry.
Journalist Andrew Long discusses the implications for Chinatown in the podcast at KALW.
