Mayor Can Help Lead Tenderloin Revival In response to the lawsuit filed by Hastings Law School and Tenderloin residents and business owners, San Francisco issued a 31-page “plan” for the neighborhood. But what must be done can be covered in
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City Ignores CDC and DPH Health Mandates Mayor Breed has gotten well deserved national praise for her early issuance of shelter in place orders. But the other part of the media narrative—that San Francisco’s COVID19 policies are set by health
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Coronavirus Can’t Be Confined in Containment Zone “What did we learn? Aggressive social distancing works.”—Sarah Ravani, SF Chronicle, April 19 “We learned that, from a community standpoint, if we limit the number of interactions where the virus is transmitted, we
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“We are no longer trying to break up encampments, whether it’s one tent or 15 tents,” Jeff Kositsky, manager of the city’s Healthy Streets Operation Center, NY Times, April 10, 2020. San Francisco has responded to claims that over 300
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The Tenderloin Becoming a Horror Show Imagine walking down 24th Street in San Francisco’s Noe Valley and seeing a row of tents. The tents are far less than 6-feet apart and barely leave room for pedestrians. What would happen? A
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Mayor Breed’s Political Future at Stake Throughout her political career San Francisco Mayor London Breed has always had one big edge: a compelling personal story. Raised by her grandmother in public housing, Breed’s sister died of a drug overdose and
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An Unusual Alliance Revived SROs I wrote last week about the Tenderloin Housing Clinic’s success in preserving and improving San Francisco’s SRO hotels. By the 1980’s SROs were the city’s housing of last resort, and the Tenderloin was the last
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“Affordable Homes Now” Boosts Affordability Mayor Breed’s plan to boost affordability by expediting the city’s glacial housing approval process is long overdue and desperately needed. No major city has as slow an approval process as San Francisco. These delays do
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