Engardio recall effort shows split in moderate coalition

Good afternoon! Here’s the latest:

Did you miss our good-news housing story this weekend? The San Francisco Community Land Trust bought a 16-unit building in the Mission, saving the homes of its long-term, low-income tenants.

D4 Supervisor Joel Engardio rose politically by supporting recalls. Now, writes Joe Eskenazi, Engardio’s facing one himself—revealing a split in the moderate coalition between “old-school westside homeowners and YIMBY e-bike urbanists.” Read what it means for the district, and for the future of recall movements.

Yujie Zhou has a great story about the man who might be the last newsstand operator in San Francisco. Find out what happened to the business of selling actual newspapers on the street, and why newsracks have disappeared around the city.

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