"Randy Shaw" is an attorney, author and activist who lives in Berkeley, California. He is the Executive Director of the [http://www.thclinic.org/ Tenderloin Housing Clinic], a non-profit organization in San Francisco that he co-founded in 1980. Shaw also co-founded and is the Director of Uptown Tenderloin, Inc., a nonprofit organization that spearheaded the creation of the national [http://www.uptowntl.org/index.php Uptown Tenderloin Historic District] in 2009. Uptown Tenderloin, Inc. is also the driving force behind the Tenderloin Museum, which will be open in the spring of 2015. Shaw is also the editor of [http://www.beyondchron.org Beyond Chron], and has written four books on activism, which have been published by the Universtiy of California Press.

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The city wants a court ruling to clarify the law.

In 1973 and 1975, the Black Panther Party promoted a strategy for reorienting civic priorities around the rehabilitation and health of low-income neighborhoods that brought a record Black voter turnout to the polls in city elections.

In Chinatown, there has always been overcrowding and unique cultural and language barriers.