Good afternoon!
Hmm, how did the city’s Prop A bond money for “sustainability” wind up funding hammocks and a skate park at Sunset Dunes? Joe Eskenazi reports on the way money’s been used for parks under departing director Phil Ginsburg.
Over the weekend, Io Yeh Gilman did a Day 200 recap of the progress and continuing challenges of the 16th Street plaza crackdown.
And today, the SFPD moved its mobile command unit permanently off the plaza, due to “budgetary constraints.” Read the different explanations offered for the changeโand for what’s coming next.
And take a look at Vincent Pflieger‘s beautiful photos of the “concrete testimonies“written on our sidewalks.
More soon,
Sara
P.S. The Roxie has 20 free tickets for Mission Local readers to “No Place To Grow Old,” a film about older adults facing homelessness. Screening and panel discussion tomorrow, at 6PM: Come early to the box office and claim your ticket.
Latest News
SFPD nixes 24/7 police bus at 16th St., offers varying rationales
“We are going to be relentless in our focus on cleaning these areas up.”
โSustainabilityโ bond money paid for Sunset Dunes hammocks, skate park
“I donโt want to pit neighborhood vs. neighborhood. But their investment in parks has not been equitable.”
The โconcrete testimoniesโ on San Francisco sidewalks
“Wish we could talk. Come home tonight.”
16th St. Plaza Crackdown
At Day 200, residents see progress and challenges
โPeople still need to exist outside of the times that theyโre sleeping in their shelter.”
SNAP
Where are my shoes?
By Zach Smith
Events
Today: Double Wish, at the Brick & Mortar Music Hall, September 29, 8-10PM
Tomorrow: No Place to Grow Old, screening and panel discussion, at the Roxie, September 30, 6-8PM
