Housing Rights Committee seeks Housing Advocate
Job alert: The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is looking for someone to fill the Subsidized Housing Advocate position. From the Committee: “Are you passionate about helping low income...
Man found with life-threatening stab wound in SF Mission
Life-threatening stabbing Police found a 29-year-old man lying on a Mission District sidewalk with a life-threatening stab wound just before 6 p.m. on Sunday. The victim was found on a...
Developments in Development: Building boom?
Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, housing, planning, zoning and construction news. Well, what do you know? It seems the federal government, too, has caught wind...
20th Street Block Party returns to the Mission tomorrow
Music, food, and a variety of family-friendly activities are headed to 19th and 20th streets between Bryant and Harrison streets tomorrow as part of the fifth annual 20th Street Block...
Business social for new development met with protest
Business owners who arrived at the Mission Language and Vocational School Thursday evening to attend a social event organized by the developer of 1979 Mission St. were met by a...
Join us tonight at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino...
Tonight at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, I will be interviewing Cary Cordova, the author of “The Heart of the Mission, Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco.”...
Props to the cops
Police arrested a young man brandishing a metal pipe on Albion Street today at around 10:45 a.m. One witness said the man looked mentally unstable, as he backed down Albion...
Affordable housing on Florida Street keenly anticipated
For the crowd of around 100 people who filled the auditorium of the Mission Language and Vocational School Wednesday night to hear the plans for an 130-unit affordable housing building,...
Drive-by shooting injures man towing car
A man was injured in a broad-daylight shooting yesterday, police report. He was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The 27-year-old man was towing a car that had...
SNAP: Last moment of a royal visit
The last visitors watch as a custodian reaches to remove the crown from a statue of Mary, packing for the next stop on a centennial tour. The International Pilgrim Virgin...
SF Navigation Center’s neighbors find impact better than expected
Nearly two months after a new Navigation Center opened on 26th and South Van Ness streets, residents who were worried about a growing tent encampment nearby are reassured by the...
Families, doctors plead to keep S.F.’s only sub-acute facility open
Nurses, advocates and family members of patients at the St. Luke’s Hospital skilled nursing and sub-acute units delivered hours of testimony to the Health Commission Tuesday, prompting the commission to...
Police investigating Dolores Park shooting have different hunches, few solutions
San Francisco is sandwiched between two major earthquake faults. You can’t see them. But that doesn’t mean they’re not there. Some fault lines lie deep beneath the earth. But some...
SF Uber driver cited in crash on Guerrero
An Uber driver was cited this evening for causing a silver Ford Mustang to swerve into the center divider on Guerrero Street between 21st and 22nd streets. No one was...
The SFPD could use your input on its annual report
At a recent meeting on community relations, San Francisco Police Officers Jennifer Jackson and Torrie Barnes were there to listen to the community and get input on how to improve...
SF Mission Shooting threatens man’s life
A shooting has left a man in life-threatening condition Tuesday morning, police report. The 24-year-old man was standing on the sidewalk at 26th Street and South Van Ness Avenue just...
Man attacked after making noise complaint, five robberies in SF...
Police reported two assaults that took place in the Mission over the weekend. The first, which led the victim to lose consciousness, occurred just before 2 a.m. on Sunday. Two...