Streets in San Francisco’s Mission are now painted in gold. For real (with video).

Posted by Joe Eskenazi | Jul 2, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Erik Schmitt’s guerrilla art highlights the choking disparities of Bay Area life Sam Brannan’s...

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

Posted by Julian Mark | 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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Eviction, displacement, misery: The sad — and sadly typical — tale of San Francisco’s ‘oldest house’

Posted by Joe Eskenazi | Mar 29, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

Maria Fuentes’ room is dark and the curtains are drawn. A portrait of Jesus overlooks the prone...

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SF Mission YIMBY movement wants to speed up affordable housing

Posted by Julian Mark | Nov 30, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Steven Buss is a self-described “gentrifier,” and he’s on a mission to soothe his conscience....

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Mission Tech workers confront high rents, longer commutes

Posted by Christina Egerstrom | Jul 22, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Technology, Today's Mission

Some 70 tech companies are currently registered in the Mission District and increasingly, all are...

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Listen Local: The mural scene in 2017 with Sirron Norris

Posted by Laura Waxmann | Mar 16, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Listen Local is Mission Local in audio form. We record live on a biweekly webcast at BFF.fm every...

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SF Planners Approve Plan to Curb Gentrification, Extend Interim Controls

Posted by Laura Wenus | Mar 3, 2017 | 24th Street, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Housing, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

San Francisco Planning Commissioners on Thursday approved a land use and policy plan designed to...

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First Move to Regulate City Biz on 24th Street

Posted by Laura Waxmann | 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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Rent Hike Means Another Old Biz on Valencia St. Must Move

Posted by Laura Waxmann | 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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SF and Nonprofits Offer Plan to Control Mission District Gentrification

Posted by Laura Wenus | Jan 31, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

After years of collaborative planning effort, more than a dozen nonprofits and city organizations...

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Activists Fighting Restaurants on Mission Street

Posted by Laura Wenus | Jan 24, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Activists who have long tried to fight gentrification by opposing market-rate development and...

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Merchants on 24th Feel Displacement Pressures, Mull Protections

Posted by Laura Wenus | Jan 17, 2017 | 24th Street, Business, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Merchants along the 24th Street corridor where a new proposal seeks to protect them feel the...

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Developments in development: Home of the Rich

Posted by Laura Wenus | Dec 18, 2016 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

You knew the city was changing – now here are some number that illustrate how. The population...

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SF Mission MC Riffs on Gentrification in New Video

Posted by Laura Wenus | Nov 28, 2016 | Art, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Video

“Frak,” the hip hop moniker of Alex Fraknoi, grew up in the Mission and has seen it change –...

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Film Review: Mission and Chinatown Struggles Most Compelling in “Company Town”

Posted by Joe Rivano Barros | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Progressive politicos, activists, and other movie-goers descended on the Roxie Theater on Friday...

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Mission Band Releases Album, Holds On To Heritage

Posted by Jen Cohen | Oct 20, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission

Local band Soltron will play at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts this Friday to mark...

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