August 2025 - Beyond Chron

Here’s What SF’s Mid-Market Needs Most

Posted August 25, 2025 by Randy Shaw

San Francisco’s historic Mid-Market neighborhood has not come back. While there are signs of progress, sidewalk drug activities, vacant retail, and inadequate positive foot traffic still beset the street. While allowing ride-share vehicles in Mid-Market will help, a real comeback Read More »

San Francisco’s Misleading Crime Stats

Posted August 25, 2025 by Randy Shaw

Major United States cities have seen sharp drops in crime. San Francisco has posted steep reductions in all reported categories. Yet what about crimes in unreported categories? Like open air drug markets? Or illegal sidewalk drug use? Or fencing stolen Read More »

City Faces Historic Housing Opportunity. Will it Seize It?

Posted August 18, 2025 by Randy Shaw

Santa Monica, California can do something that urbanists and housing advocates only dream of: add thousands of affordable housing units to an affluent city without impacting existing neighborhoods. Housing targeted to Santa Monica workers otherwise priced out of the city. Read More »

A Message for the New School Year

Posted August 18, 2025 by Maya Keshavan

It’s that time of year again! Though in my family, the First-Day-of-School jitters and excitement are now behind us, every year at this time I remember my son’s first day of kindergarten. He’s in his mid-twenties now, but the first Read More »

Time for Real Change in San Francisco School District

Posted August 18, 2025 by Laurance Lem Lee

Let’s have some big changes from the San Francisco Unified School District as we start this first week of school and map out where we want to be when school ends in June. Thankfully we have seen many concerns go Read More »

Are YIMBYS a Movement?

Posted August 11, 2025 by Randy Shaw

YIMBY’s success at eliminating barriers to new housing is growing. So is opposition to the pro-housing agenda. Opponents claim the generational drive to increase housing supply is not a movement but a billionaire-driven scheme to gentrify neighborhoods. But as I Read More »

Tenderloin Businesses Are Not Giving Up

Posted August 11, 2025 by Randy Shaw

Brendan Murphy is finishing a beautiful new paint job on his building at the 200 block of Hyde Street. The Murphy family also owns an apartment building at the corner of 300 Hyde. That’s across the street from what until Read More »

Trump Judges Gonna Trump

Posted August 11, 2025 by Stephen Kaus

On Friday, August 8, 2025, a Washington D.C. appellate court halted an inquiry into contempt charges for the Trump Administration’s infamous disobedience of a court order not to deport alleged gang members while the court was considering their cases. They Read More »