Good afternoon! Was that rain earlier?
• In budget-battle news, more than 100 advocates rallied outside City Hall today, demanding the city fund a variety of Latinx programs. The Latino Task Force and others said help was needed to stabilize a community that’s still reeling from the pandemic.
• A federal injunction last December forbade San Francisco from carrying out most sweeps of homeless encampments —but real life is different. Some people in tents say sweeps have paused, while others say they’ve had their property seized or been told to pack up and move, particularly before Carnaval.
• The city has erected new fences around the McDonald’s on Mission and 24th Streets, in an effort to push unpermitted street vendors out of the area. But permitted sellers and business owners say the vendors have just moved down the block and set up shop north and south of the fences.
More soon,
Sara
The Latest News
Latinx organizations rally for their piece of the budget pie
“Enough with giving us crumbs!”
Mixed bag for Mission’s homeless after federal injunction
“Multiple times a day, people are dispatched to respond to calls of the mere existence of an unhoused person.”
Fences at McDonald’s push 24th St. vendors away
Many unlicensed vendors have just moved down the block.
SNAP
