June 2026 - Beyond Chron

Is NYC Really More Progressive Than San Francisco?

Posted June 29, 2026 by Randy Shaw

Mayors Don’t Tell Full Story Last week, New York City voters turned the city into Mamdani Land. Longtime incumbent Democrats were defeated by more progressive challengers. The huge DSA-backed election wins offered a sharp contrast with San Francisco, where the Read More »

How Drug-Free Supportive Housing Helped a Former Inmate Rewrite His Story

Posted June 29, 2026 by Julia Zrihen

A Model for Others Hollie Garrett lives at the 587 HTL at Larkin and Eddy in the Tenderloin. He is part of the Leroy Looper Graduate Program, which serves justice-involved individuals who have completed a previous residential treatment program. Hollie Read More »

Closure of Urban Alchemy’s Oasis Signals Tenderloin Shift

Posted June 22, 2026 by Randy Shaw

Urban Alchemy Paved Way for Revival Urban Alchemy’s Tenderloin Oasis closed on June 21. It opened in 2022, on the site of a parking lot at Turk and Hyde whose sidewalks were filled with drug dealers. The Oasis became a Read More »

How a Vietnamese War Orphan Found Her Fight in the Tenderloin

Posted June 22, 2026 by Julia Zrihen

SRO Tenant Works for Tenderloin Safety Nguyen Thi Chau Ha, who now goes by Carol Huber-Prows, is a resident and community organizer at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic’s Garland Hotel. She told me how her father first met her: “He was Read More »

Memoir by AFL-CIO Official Traces Unusual Career Path

Posted June 22, 2026 by Steve Early

Review of Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology, by Joe Uehlein. Any book bearing blurbs by Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, and Tom Morello, with a foreword by Si Kahn, is pretty solid evidence that the author has music world friends of Read More »

More Reviews From Frameline 50 and SF DocFest 25

Posted June 22, 2026 by Peter Wong

Kai Stanicke’s Teddy Jury Award-winning drama “Trial Of Hein” provides enough specificity to suggest it’s a 19th century-ish tale. Yet the way the story of this year’s winner of Frameline’s Out In The Silence award gets told gives it the Read More »

Letters to the Editor…

Posted June 17, 2026 by Beyond Chron

Dear Editor: Re: https://beyondchron.org/how-a-welder-used-sro-housing-to-rebuild-his-life/ Thank you for telling Spencer’s story. His experience highlights something many people do not understand without an address, it is nearly impossible to rebuild your life. SRO housing gives people a starting point, a place to Read More »

San Francisco Faces Special Election Frenzy in 2027

Posted June 15, 2026 by Randy Shaw

The Upcoming Political Feast Are you are a San Francisco voter glad that the June campaigns are finally over? Enjoy the brief break. The November campaigns are already in high gear and the Wiener-Chan congressional race could trigger three hotly Read More »