SAN FRANCISCO — The South of Market District, or the SOMA, has been traditionally home to many kababayans in the San Francisco Bay Area.

However, due to the rising costs of rent, many Filipinos are finding themselves pushed out of the city.

Despite the gentrification — back in April of this year — the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution to establish a Filipino cultural heritage district in the SOMA.

With this resolution, the Fil-Am community looks to empower their cultural district through technology.

Inay Filipino Kitchen started out as a passion project for Manuel Ramirez III and his late mother, Lydia Lopez Ramirez, from a temporary location in 2010 to its permanent location today, in the heart of San Francisco’s South of Market Neighborhood, or SOMA for short.

San Francisco’s South of Market area is known for swank tech-company offices, gleaming luxury apartments, a baseball park with breathtaking views of the bay. Few know that it was also home to one of the country’s earliest Filipino communities….

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution Tuesday to establish a Filipino Cultural Heritage District in the city’s South of Market neighborhood.

SoMa Pilipinas will be the name for an area bound by Second Street to the east, 11th Street to the west, Market Street to the north and Brannan Street to the south…

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan Tuesday to designate a Filipino cultural heritage district in a South of Market neighborhood, which community leaders hope will not only recognize the Filipino presence there but also preserve it.

SoMa Pilipinas will include…