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MARCH 8, 1866: US Congress passed The Outside Lands Act of 1866, deeding the western half of San Francisco (federal land) to the City. The Sunset and Richmond districts would not be developed for another 60 years.

When San Francisco was first established in 1850 the US Government owned the entire city. They almost immediately deeded the City of San Francisco the…

FEBRUARY 17, 2009: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act became effective, providing a one-time $15,000 lump sum payment to surviving World War II Filipino veterans. Many of those veterans resided in San Francisco and lived at the Gran Oriente Filipino Hotel.

In 1921 forty Filipino merchant marines pooled their money to purchase a 1907 Victorian house in South Park, a Japanese enclave within SoMa[1]. Until 1946…