After a Tough 2019, Tenderloin Will Move Forward As I begin my 40th year working in San Francisco’s Tenderloin (the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, which I co-founded, celebrates its 40th anniversary in February), I realize that projections of progress have often
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Film Shows Thursday Night at Tenderloin Museum San Francisco’s Mid-Market may be the city’s least understood neighborhood. While everyone agrees that Mid-Market’s long decline needs to be reversed, there is disagreement on how to accomplish this and what defines “success.”
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Why Does the SFPD Get a Pass? San Francisco is undergoing a crisis on its streets. It has drug dealers and users taking over sidewalks and mentally troubled people randomly threatening the public. Is the San Francisco Police Department effectively
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SFPD’s 2015 Redistricting Plan a Huge Mistake Last week’s U.S. Attorney crackdown on Tenderloin drug dealing drew massive media coverage. The key takeaway: federal law enforcement publicly committed to ensure that the “rule of law” applied in the Tenderloin, where
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Lost 1966 Film to Get Rare Showing The Tenderloin Museum got such a strong response to Ryan Kost’s July 14 San Francisco Chronicle story on Robert Zagone’s film, Drugs in the Tenderloin (“How a lost film reveals past, present of
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Tents Dominate Tenderloin Sidewalks San Francisco’s residential Tenderloin neighborhood has been converted into an encampment free zone. Tents  block sidewalks morning, noon and night. Pedestrians blocked by tents are forced to walk in the street,  with wheelchair users blocked from
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Will SF Finally Do Right by the Tenderloin? Supervisor Matt Haney has scheduled an April 25 10:00am hearing to address open drug dealing in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Mid-Market and Sixth Street. It’s not clear whether Chief Scott—the person with the
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