Good morning! There’s a lot going on in the neighborhood…and beyond.
Despite barricades, DPW workers, permits, and a police surveillance tower, vendors still sell their wares on sidewalks and BART plazas. Now Supervisor Hilary Ronen has announced the city will ban all street vending on Mission Street, beginning early November. An indoor space for permitted vendors to sell will be set up on Mission and 17th. It remains to be seen what will happen to the hot dogs.
Sixty temporary tiny homes will go up soon on the city-owned space at the corner of 16th and Mission, where affordable housing is slated to be built in 2025. A community meeting to discuss the project will take place at St. John’s Episcopal Church at 15th and Julian, tonight from 5:30-7pm. Two encampment fires burned tents and cars around the corner from St. John’s on Monday night.
Local/global: Over the weekend, thousands marched down Market Street to support Palestinians trapped in Gaza, in what D.A. Brooke Jenkins called a “pro-Hamas rally.” Yesterday, hundreds gathered at Dolores Park in a candlelight vigil to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, after a blast at a hospital there killed 500. Speakers condemned Jenkins, saying her rhetoric could lead to hate crimes.
More soon,
Sara
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Ronen announces ban on Mission Street vending, suggests moving vendors indoors
“We don’t have any other source of work.”
Tiny homes for homeless to go up at 16th and Missionย
“The only way we can get people off the streets and inside is if we have more shelter space.”
Candlelight vigil at Dolores Park calls for ceasefire in Gaza
“I have a lot of hope and Iโm hopeless at the same time.”
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