Artists, Residents Sculpt Gentrification as They See It
The Mission’s housing crisis was on center stage at the Red Poppy Art House on Saturday evening, and that stage had a hole in it. All...
J.J. Barrow
J.J. Barrow began reporting for Mission Local in 2010. She once rode the 49 Van Ness-Mission for six hours straight while the rest of the city tuned in to the World Series — until revelry ended the route. She misses hiding in Guerrero's quiet Cafe Petra (now defunct) to write.
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Stories by Jannon
At 30, SF Gallery Looks Back on Changing Valencia
By J.J. Barrow Posted
Servio Gómez remembers when renting a 1,000-square-foot space on Valencia cost about $700 a month. That was 1985, when he opened Back to the Picture....
SF Mission Youth See Their Future (and Rent) in Tech
By J.J. Barrow Posted
Four millennials huddled at workstations, bent on solving the mysteries of malfunctioning computers. “We’d have to open it up,” said a young man, stumped by...
With Doc, Mission Residents Go Inside High School In Jail
By J.J. Barrow Posted
Four years after approaching the subject, filmmakers Annelise Wunderlich and Richard O’Connell feel it’s the perfect time to finish their documentary on the nation’s first...
Residents Meet Proposed Medical Neighbors and Say, Move Elsewhere
By J.J. Barrow Posted
The appropriateness of Sutter Health’s plan to open an affiliate medical center on the corner of 20th and Valencia streets was the subject of a...
The Line: Housing Costs Put Retirement in Question
By J.J. Barrow Posted
This is our third in a series examining who’s in line at Valencia Street’s Social Security Administration building. You can read previous entries in the series...
La Policía Disparó al Joven de 20 Años por la Espalda, Dicen los Abogados
By J.J. Barrow Posted
Los abogados de Amilcar Pérez-López dijeron, en una demanda civil federal presentada el viernes, que tienen una autopsia, tres testigos oculares y fotografías posteriores a la...
Lawyers Say Police Shot 20-Year-Old in the Back
By J.J. Barrow Posted
In a federal civil lawsuit filed Friday lawyers for Amilcar Pérez-López said they have an autopsy, three eyewitnesses and post-shooting photographs that show police shot the...
Ellis Act Evictions Fall, Illegal Use Evictions Jump
By J.J. Barrow Posted
A handful of activists and tenants stood on the blustery corner of Mission and Cesar Chavez streets Monday afternoon, calling for residents to fight the...
Stolen Bike Wheel Brings Police Presence to Flea Market
By J.J. Barrow Posted
Items that shouldn’t be sold at Arriba Juntos Flea Market: food, booze, pornography, and stolen bicycle parts. But last Sunday morning, bicyclist Kirk Scott said he...
Changing Management Gives Public Housing Tenants New Hope
By J.J. Barrow Posted
Public housing in the city as we know it is coming to an end — that is, it will become largely nonprofit owned and operated...
Mother Seeks Justice and to Remain in a City that Claimed Her Son’s Life
By J.J. Barrow Posted
At Parque Niños Unidos on 23rd and Treat Streets, Sala-Haquekyah Chandler delivered an impromptu call to action last Wednesday about gun violence in the city...
Garfield Park Has a New Book Corner for Kids
By J.J. Barrow Posted
About 40 kids visited the Youth Community Center at Garfield Square Park on Tuesday for the grand opening of its new lending library, courtesy of...
The Line: On Disability, Fearing Eviction
By J.J. Barrow Posted
A view of the realities of city life from the line outside the Social Security Administration office at Valencia and 22nd Street. You can read...
Police Shooting Anniversary Brings Community, Lowriders to the Streets
By J.J. Barrow Posted
On the first anniversary of Alejandro “Alex” Nieto’s death, more than a hundred people took to the streets of the Mission with his family and...