City plans to limit restaurants, preserve industrial space in SF’s Mission
In an effort to curb gentrification in the Mission District, the San Francisco Planning Department...
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Tag: displacement
Cleaner on Guerrero forced to close after $600 rent increase
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A former go-go dancer and taxicab robber who had hoped to start life afresh at the Graywood Hotel...
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