Court-appointed receiver angling to eject notorious landlord Anne Kihagi’s family from apartment

Posted by Joe Eskenazi | Aug 13, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Turnabout, they say, is fair play. Anne Kihagi is getting a taste of this. Kihagi, who beat out...

Eviction looming for elderly Bernal woman and more than a dozen tenants

Posted by Hiya Swanhuyser | Aug 8, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

“Four judges have looked at this, and four judges are in agreement” regarding scheduled Friday...

Axis Development abruptly abandons proposed 117-unit Folsom Street project

Posted by Julian Mark | Jul 26, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

A potential 117-unit residential project at 2675 Folsom Street will not be moving forward in its...

Neighbors of would-be housing on South Van Ness bemoan loss of parking

Posted by Charlotte Silver | Jun 29, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

To the neighbors of the old Barney’s Auto Repair shop at 986 South Van Ness, a new housing...

Developer threatens to sue as SF Supes delay Mission project

Posted by Julian Mark | Jun 20, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Robert Tillman, the self-described “newbie developer,” was on Tuesday foiled again by the San...

The One $ Store becomes too pricy a cultural asset to keep (Updated)

Posted by Charlotte Silver | Jun 13, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Mary Feeley, who lives at an SRO downtown, walked into the One $ Store at 17th and Mission with a...

SF City Attorney sues couple for turning home into illegal hotel

Posted by Charlotte Silver | May 16, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is using a gunfight that surprised a sleepy street in...

Paul Pelosi and a single room occupancy hotel known as “the pit”

Posted by Joe Eskenazi | May 8, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

City officials confused by political scion’s attachment to troubled residential hotel...

Breaking: San Francisco attempts to lower boom on landlords’ alleged illegal Airbnb conspiracy

Posted by Joe Eskenazi | May 1, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

City Attorney: Faux leases, faux tenants hid couple’s $700,000 profit on illegal Airbnb hotels...

Neighborhood Notes: St. Francis Fountain turns 100 years old and plans to close for a few weeks

Posted by Abraham Rodriguez | Apr 27, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, SNAPS, Today's Mission, Topics

St. Francis Fountain turns 100 St. Francis Fountain, the diner on the corner of 24th and York...

Publicist who guided media charm offensive for notoriously cruel SF landlord says she stiffed him $2K

Posted by Joe Eskenazi | Apr 19, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Anne Kihagi, the city’s most infamous landlord, recently launched a charm offensive, hiring a...

Amid housing crisis, SF builds fewer units last year than in 2016

Posted by Julian Mark | Apr 16, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

As the mayoral race heats up, the city got some sobering news: despite all the talk about the need...

SF Mission District politicians stand behind Leno

Posted by Julian Mark | Apr 13, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Past and present Mission District representatives are doubling down on their support for mayoral...

Potrero House of Horrors: Squatters, appalling behavior, and serial fires burn up neighborhood

Posted by Joe Eskenazi | Apr 9, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics, Trouble

Last week, the onetime-stately-beauty-of-a-home-turned-fetid-wreck at 1060 Potrero Ave. caught...

Listen Local: The sad — and sadly typical — tale of San Francisco’s ‘oldest house’

Posted by Mission Local Staff | Apr 6, 2018 | Front Page, ListenLoc@l, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Last week, Mission Local columnist Joe Eskenazi and reporter Julian Mark discussed San...

SF supervisors thumb noses at SB 827

Posted by Michael Toren | Apr 4, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Board of Supervisors candidate Sonja Trauss escorted off by sheriff’s deputy after wading into...

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