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Sami Elzomor and Abdul Alrammah , the owners of Yemen Kitchen, stand with SF New Deal Executive Director Simon Bertrang in front of the restaurant at 219 Jones St. in San Francisco. “If not for SF New Deal, this place wouldn’t be open,” said Alrammah.
Over the next four years, SF New Deal, born as an emergency response to the pandemic, delivered more than 3.3 million restaurant meals to families, congregate living facilities for previously homeless people, and more.Since its inception, it has distributed $45 million of local, state, and federal funding and private donations to more than 1,336 San Francisco business owners, with more than 75% of recipients being Black, Indigenous, women, immigrants, LGBTQ or business owners of color..
The program grew extremely quickly, Zarlin said. In the first week, SF New Deal’s founders and other volunteers arranged for 1,000 meals. The following week, it was 18,000. After six weeks, it hit about 50,000. Today, SF New Deal is a growing 22-person nonprofit organization, for which Zarlin is chief impact officer and Estrada — still running her bakery — is president of the board of directors.
During the pandemic, The City temporarily permitted businesses to use sidewalk and street parking spaces for outdoor dining and other activities. Alrammah, the 61-year-old owner, husband and father, is a soft-spoken man in a white chef’s jacket who immigrated to the United States from Yemen. He said he lived in New York City for a couple of years working at Yemeni food restaurants, then spent two decades in Detroit, where he opened a couple of restaurants.
In a case that could further diminish the power of the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider San Francisco’s claim that EPA requirements under the Clean Water Act are vague and make any attempts by The City to comply “impossible.” The City argued that without specifics, it’s impossible for “permittees to determine whether they need to implement additional pollution controls.”to its authority as a result of cases typically brought by conservative groups or fossil-fuel stakeholders. Bay Area environmental groups expressed dismay that one of the country’s most progressive cities
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