Today’s Mission 06.05.09
Mission bus riders were weary of the 49 bus line as a fire ripped through the Tenderloin today, shutting down blocks as San Francisco Fire Department attempted to get the blaze under control....
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10.21.09
Photo by Colin Johnson Put aside your fruit fly aversion, start thinking inside the worm bin and be sure to request your free kitchen composting pail from Sunset Scavenger. Starting today, composting...
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Zendo Without Walls
En Español For an ordained Soto Zen Buddhist priest, Jana Drakka is stressed out. “How do I live as a monk out here? I can’t beg as a monk would traditionally,” Drakka said recently outside the Royan,...
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Women Seek Stability in SROs
It’s the first of the month, and Tree is sailing around in silk slips and high heels. She’s new to the 248-room Mission Hotel, the city’s biggest single room occupancy (SRO) hotel. It’s government...
View ArticleCops v. Critical Mass Redux
En Español CAFE LA BOHEME 6 A.M. Good Morning Mission! 51° Fahrenheit; it’s been raining and it will continue to rain, so they say, with maybe a pause in the morning. Marching Around MUNI While some...
View ArticleLas Chinches Apestan
La frase “las chinches apestan” se repitió varias veces el martes pasado en los escalones del ayuntamiento, en donde la supervisora del distrito 6 Jane Kim presentó una nueva legislación para asistir...
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Critics rip city plan to address Tenderloin encampments as doing little to...
Advocates for the homeless said they are grateful for the attention the mayor is giving the Tenderloin in the city’s new neighborhood plan. But they complained about the delay — and, more immediately,...
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The new Tenderloin COVID-19 testing site was supposed to make testing...
As San Francisco continues to make progress with reopening the city, one alarming trend has stood out: The number of people undergoing COVID-19 testing each day is far, far less than the city’s testing...
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COVID-19: Getting tested in the Tenderloin was challenging. So is getting...
By all accounts, the first day of the Tenderloin pop-up COVID-19 testing site went terribly last week. “The first day was awful,” admitted Ken Kim, senior director of programs at Glide Memorial Church,...
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Tenderloin COVID-19 testing site closes early amid George Floyd demonstrations
Community partners in the Tenderloin decided to shut down the COVID-19 pop-up testing site a day early, and declined an offer from Verily to extend testing for another week, saying protests and curfews...
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Major operation in the Tenderloin begins to move homeless off the streets and...
4:45 p.m. Chelsea Crumpler with the Coalition on Homelessness said the efforts for today and the coming days are being coordinated by the Healthy Streets Operation Center (HSOC). The Homeless Outreach...
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How will San Francisco vaccinate its unhoused population?
Unhoused people in San Francisco are wary of vaccination due to medical trauma, and experts say education around the vaccine should begin now. So far, San Francisco has not prioritized vaccination for...
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‘Cognitive dissonance:’ Mayor’s Tenderloin tactics could cancel each other out
It was not quite three weeks ago when Mayor London Breed assailed “the bullshit that is destroying our city” and moved to deploy more cops into the Tenderloin to make […] ‘Cognitive dissonance:’...
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Mayor aims at Tenderloin but denies $3M for homeless care
Mayor London Breed says she has doubled down to improve conditions in the Tenderloin, but the city continues to withhold some $3 million allocated in 2021 to implement a new team of workers to respond...
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Activists seize City Hall elevators, demand SRO elevator repairs
“Sorry, can’t ride the elevator.” These words echoed through City Hall Wednesday afternoon as 14 disability activists blocked politicians and staffers from entering three of the building’s elevators...
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SF cuts and runs in the Tenderloin — and on safe-injection sites
The city, this month, shut down its Tenderloin Center at United Nations Plaza, where everyone in San Francisco government has long known that supervised drug consumption was taking place (but […] SF...
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Residents talk life in a Tenderloin SRO
The question of how to solve San Francisco’s “homelessness problem” is never-ending. Everyone agrees things are bad, but nobody can agree on a solution. And, it’s safe to say, many […] Residents talk...
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Study: Tenderloin OD-prevention site saved lives — and got in its own way
An academic study published today in the International Journal of Drug Policy noted a statistic one needn’t be a doctor nor a mathematician to grasp: 333 overdoses were recorded at […] Study:...
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