Is the Tenderloin “Slowly Gentrifying”?

Posted March 6, 2018 by Randy Shaw

In her otherwise solid story on a San Francisco start-up attracting working people to live in SROs, New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles stated that the Tenderloin is “slowly gentrifying.” Curiously, she made that statement while interviewing someone on a
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World Premier: The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot

Posted February 8, 2018 by Randy Shaw

The 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot is now recognized as a landmark in the LGBT movement. It’s occurrence in San Francisco’s Tenderloin was no mere coincidence; the Tenderloin neighborhood launched the city’s LGBT movement before its geographic center moved on to
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Become a Tenderloin Museum Member Now— and See SF’s Most Breathtaking Skyline View

Posted January 18, 2018 by Randy Shaw

If you have been waiting for the right incentive to become a member of the Tenderloin Museum, here is an offer that’s hard to beat: join now and receive an invitation to an exclusive Member Appreciation Party at the historic
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Anger over Police Failing Tenderloin

Posted January 11, 2018 by Beyond Chron

My January 9 story, “How Police Fail the Tenderloin,” struck a nerve with those living and working in the neighborhood. Some of the responses were so compelling that they are assembled below as a follow up to the story. Here
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How Police Fail the Tenderloin

Posted January 9, 2018 by Randy Shaw

My Sunday San Francisco Chronicle article on the Tenderloin described how the police department’s failure to stop open drug dealing holds the neighborhood back. Statistics from the city’s website shows the situation is even worse than I thought. From October
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Why Mid-Market and Tenderloin Progress Stalled

Posted December 19, 2017 by Randy Shaw

I predicted in a January 5, 2017 article that San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood would take “major steps toward revitalization” in 2017. I was wrong. I was also wrong about anticipated progress for portions of Mid-Market bordering the Tenderloin. It’s no
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Arts, Culture Thriving in SF’s Tenderloin

Posted November 9, 2017 by Garrett Bergthold

Discovering the Tenderloin’s Independent Arts Scene Starting at the corner of Taylor and Eddy streets, it’s hard to walk more than 100 feet in any direction without running into a performing arts venue. Two blocks away, SHN Orpheum Theater hosts
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The Tenderloin Times and Future of Community Media

Posted October 19, 2017 by Randy Shaw

From 1977-1994, The Tenderloin Times was often the city’s leading news source on the Tenderloin, homelessness, and the Southeast Asian refugee community that found a home in the Tenderloin after 1975. The Times gave voice to those excluded from traditional
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