SF’s SRO tenants anxious for better housing, will wait years

Posted by Julian Mark | Mar 19, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Residents of the Mission’s SROs are often dismissed by the neighborhood as a nuisance, and many...

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SF Mission community weighs in on ambitious homeless reduction plan

Posted by Julian Mark | Dec 2, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Officials from the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive housing on Thursday...

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SF Mission residential hotels renovated for wealthier tenants

Posted by Frances Saux | Aug 10, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Maybe it’s the fresh blue paint that makes 2072 Mission stand out from its less-kept-up neighbors...

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Man critically injured, another arrested in hotel stabbing

Posted by Laura Waxmann | Jul 6, 2017 | Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

A 54-year-old man is in critical condition following a stabbing inside a residential hotel near...

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Early morning fire displaces four from Mission District SRO

Posted by Laura Wenus | Jun 26, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission

Firefighters responded to a one-alarm fire at 5:22 a.m. Monday morning inside a low-income SRO...

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Overnight fire at SRO displaces two

Posted by Laura Wenus | Apr 10, 2017 | Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Trouble

Firefighters contained a one-alarm blaze at the Mission Hotel on 16th Street and South Van Ness...

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After an 8 Hour Stand-Off at a Valencia Street Hotel, Police Arrest a Woman Barricaded Inside

Posted by Laura Wenus | Mar 10, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

10 p.m.  Police confirmed that at 9:05 p.m. the stand off at the Crown Hotel “ended up very...

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

Posted by Laura Wenus | 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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Uncertainty Lingers for Mission Fire Victims as City Aid Runs Out

Posted by Laura Waxmann | 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

Posted by Laura Waxmann | 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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Mission Hotel’s Mail Troubles Prompt City, Advocates to Take Action

Posted by Sawsan Morrar | Oct 19, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Tenants passing through the Mission Hotel lobby did a double take when they saw Postal Carrier...

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Bitcoin Investor Buys SRO in SF Mission

Posted by Laura Waxmann | Mar 7, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Technology, Today's Mission, Topics

After years of building a quirky community, bitcoin investor Jered Kenna last month purchased the...

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The Line: Housing Costs Put Retirement in Question

Posted by J.J. Barrow | Apr 29, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission

This is our third in a series examining who’s in line at Valencia Street’s Social...

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Arson Attempt At Valencia SRO

Posted by Laura Wenus | Feb 2, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Mission Fire, Mobile, Today's Mission, Trouble

An unidentified man set a fire at the Crown Hotel and SRO at 16th and Valencia late Monday...

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Las Chinches Apestan

Posted by Sean Havey | Oct 23, 2012 | En Español

La frase “las chinches apestan” se repitió varias veces el martes pasado en los escalones del...

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Odd Buildings: A Historic SRO on 16th Street

Posted by Rigoberto Hernandez | Jan 8, 2012 | Front Page, Housing

The Mission is full of buildings that give one the sense that something interesting is happening...

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