Tenderloin Retains Core Strengths On January 7, 2020 I wrote “A Tenderloin Breakthrough in 2020?” The subtitle: “After a Tough 2019, Tenderloin Will Move Forward.” The photo showed chefs at La Cocina’s Municipal Marketplace at 101 Hyde, which was expected
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This holiday season, pick up a copy of The Match Book: Vintage Matchbooks from San Francisco’s Tenderloin, and explore San Francisco history through colorful Tenderloin relics. In the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, matchbooks were calling cards used to advertise hole-in-the-wall
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Board Seeks More Information on Lawsuit After pulling the Hastings College of the Law vs. CCSF lawsuit from the consent calendar the San Francisco Board of Supervisors continued the item for a week. Many Board members had questions about the
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Residents Get Safer Streets, Many Unhoused Get Homes “Thank you everyone who did this. I’m so proud to live in the Tenderloin and proud of people who take care of my Tenderloin.” —Norma Carrera, resident of 201 Turk, commenting on
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What the Tenderloin Once Was—And Can Be Again The Tenderloin was long among San Francisco’s—and America’s– most successful neighborhoods. But as I describe in The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco, City Hall fought the
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Ignoring Crisis’ Impact on Latinx Families (Editor’s Note: The Tenderloin is 20% Latinx families and a majority of working people. But media coverage focuses almost exclusively on SRO tenants and the unhoused. This has allowed the worsening crisis facing Latinx
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Join Kathy Looper and Randy Shaw on Thursday at 12:30 pm Randy Shaw’s book, The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco, describes how since 1917  the Tenderloin neighborhood has actively fought City Hall for survival.
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Resisting Mayor Breed’s Vision of Tenderloin as Containment Zone On May 4, Hastings College of the Law and Tenderloin residents and small business owners sued San Francisco for failing to implement health care protections in the Tenderloin. The federal lawsuit
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