The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has seated a gay Malaysian-Chinese asylee to a city oversight committee. Hans How is the first LGBTQ immigrant who has yet to become a U.S.
citizen to serve on a local advisory body. The supervisors voted unanimously 11-0 at their March 23 meeting to seat How, along with Bernita Burge, Jon Jacobo, and John Baranski, on the Housing Stability Fund Oversight Board.
Their terms end December 13, 2022. The supervisors also seated Davida Sotelo Escobedo, a Chicanx trans nonbinary Oakland resident who grew up in the city, to the fund's oversight body.
Their term ends December 13, 2024. The board approved Remhai Menelik, Gen Fujioka, Fernando Marti, Shanti Singh, and Alex Lantsberg to serve on the oversight