| Leroy Looper | |
| Birth Name: | Leroy Branch Looper |
| Birth Date: | 24 November 1924 |
| Birth Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.[1] |
| Death Place: | San Francisco, CA, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Antioch University West |
| Occupation: | Activist, Community organizer, Entrepreneur |
| Known For: | Co-founding the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, the Cadillac Hotel, Reality House West, and YouthBuild USA. |
| Awards: | NEN Hall of Fame 2011 [2] |
Leroy Branch Looper (November 24, 1924 - September 11, 2011), was an American community organizer and founder of several low-income housing facilities, programs for addiction recovery, and education initiatives in San Francisco. He was known by locals as "the father of the Tenderloin".[3]
In 1979, Looper purchased the Cadillac Hotel in the Tenderloin, with the goal of saving the building and creating housing for the unhoused in the city within the single-residence occupancy (SRO) building.[4] [5]