Tag: displacement

City plans to limit restaurants, preserve industrial space in SF’s Mission

Apr 20, 2018 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

In an effort to curb gentrification in the Mission District, the San Francisco Planning Department...

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Cleaner on Guerrero forced to close after $600 rent increase

Mar 12, 2018 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Wayne’s Self-Service Laundry, housed in the charming baby-blue storefront on 22nd and Guerrero, is...

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Anne Kihagi, city’s ‘cruelest landlord,’ found in contempt: Judge says pay SF $125K in rent in seven days or go to jail

Mar 1, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

The strange and terrible saga of Anne Kihagi, arguably this city’s cruelest landlord,...

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24th Street’s Sunrise Restaurant facing $3,000 rent hike, unsure about future

Feb 16, 2018 | 24th Street, Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Sunrise Restaurant on 24th Street is facing a $3,000 rent hike, leaving its owner unsure if she...

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Elbo Room’s landlords are serial evictors

Feb 8, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

One of the Mission District’s premier fun hubs, the Elbo Room, is slated to vacate its space at...

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Developments in Development: Exclusion

Nov 26, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, housing, planning, zoning...

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Elbo Room named SF legacy business as owners search for new digs

Apr 26, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Despite the Elbo Room’s impending displacement from its 647 Valencia St. location, its owners plan...

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Noe Valley fire sends disabled senior to hospital, displaces four

Apr 6, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Trouble

Four people are displaced, and two were sent to the hospital, after a fire in the top unit of a...

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After Nearly 2 Decades Kinetic Sculptor Will Close SF Mission Studio

Feb 23, 2017 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Growing up next to an amusement park may have inspired Carl Pisaturo’s life-long fascination with...

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First Move to Regulate City Biz on 24th Street

Feb 10, 2017 | 24th Street, Business, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The San Francisco Planning Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to move forward legislation...

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Artist and Scavenger Stronghold Booted from SF Mission

Feb 9, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Valencia Street

The new year marked the end of an era for the proprietors of Junko’s, a once clandestine...

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Rent Hike Means Another Old Biz on Valencia St. Must Move

Feb 2, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Valencia Street

Valencia Street’s steady evolution into an increasingly upscale commercial corridor is claiming...

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Fire-Torn SRO Gutted and Up for Sale, 3300 Club Ousted

Feb 1, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The owner of the Graywood Hotel, a single-room occupancy hotel damaged by a June 2016 blaze that...

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Displaced by Fire, 22nd St. Tenants’ Housing Future Still Uncertain

Jan 28, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

On the two-year anniversary of a fire at 22nd and Mission streets that killed one man and left...

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Uncertainty Lingers for Mission Fire Victims as City Aid Runs Out

Dec 20, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Tenants displaced by two major Mission fires gathered at the Brava Theater on Saturday for a...

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City’s Housing Offers Not Cutting It for Homeless Fire Victim

Dec 9, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

A former go-go dancer and taxicab robber who had hoped to start life afresh at the Graywood Hotel...

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