Are 'Resource Hubs,' A Pandemic Lifeline For Many, Here To Stay?

San Francisco CA

11 December, 2021

10:24 AM

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By Eleni Balakrishnan, Mission Local December 9, 2021 While one-stop-shops like Amazon and Wal-Mart get a bad rap, one supercenter in the Mission has been doing it right — and actively expanding its reach around town to create a model for delivering social services to a community. It began with the pandemic: As Covid-19 disproportionately ravaged the Latino community, a coalition of community-based organizations, now known as the Latino Task Force, joined forces and sprang into action, opening a resource hub at 701 Alabama St. Services that were once scattered around the Mission, set up tables side by side to meet clients transforming the ballroom-like second floor into a mini-mall for essential services. Over the course of the pandemic, the idea took off. The Latino Task Force now has two hubs in the Bayview, one in the Excelsior, and a Samoan "hut," also in the Bayview is opening today. Inside, Samoan language speakers and nonprofits dedicated to the Pacific Islander will work with the large community based there. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.