By Isabel Angell, KALW Crosscurrents
In the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, at 1038 Howard St., sits the United Playaz headquarters. United Playaz is a homegrown organization that is trying to make the SoMa neighborhood a safer place. It was founded by Rudy Corpuz Jr. … but he was not always an anti-violence activist.
“I got tired of going in and out of jail. I got tired of waking up at people’s houses that were dope houses. I got tired of being on the streets where I didn’t know where I was going to be at, you know what I mean, the next day, because I was living foul.”
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