Former San Francisco gang member makes good, now uplifts Filipino community

SAN FRANCISCO In a largely Filipino section of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood that abuts The Tenderloin, the issue of drugs, crime, and homelessness is no secret.

It’s the kind of thing that can leave an impression on a young mind, and it did for one young man in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

“So growing up in a neighborhood, there’s a lot of different challenges, right?” said Rudy Corpuz Jr. “You got to grow fast in the South of Market, right?”

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