Two different stores that target two distinct populations with different priorities: One serves the area’s longtime Latino residents; the other caters to those who can afford premium prices for freshness and the cachet of buying from local vendors.
Author Archives: Caroline Cakebread
Caroline Cakebread is an intern with the San Francisco Public Press. She is a student at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications studying magazine journalism. She has worked as a writer and editor for the web team of the student run Jerk magazine, which caters to the alternative student audience at Syracuse, and will serve as the managing editor of the print magazine in the fall. She is a Napa native but currently lives in the Bay Area.
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Mission Bay Pioneers: Working and Living in a New Waterfront Neighborhood
As cranes and bulldozers continue their work to build Mission Bay, residents and workers say they love the new waterfront area. Few say they have any knowledge of, nor are they much concerned about, the long-term flooding risk.
Posted inCity Hall, Housing
New York Reform Effort Shows How San Francisco Rent Control Dialogue Lags
Reforms to rent control are finally a topic of hot debate — but not in San Francisco.
Last year the Public Press wrote about the city’s curious rental laws, which somewhat arbitrarily helps some tenants by limiting yearly rent increases but not others, depending on when the building was put up.
Since then, not much has been done to revisit the issue, even though local leaders have been grasping for ideas to ease the housing crisis here, such as a housing bond of at least $250 million, and additional taxes on home sales to fund affordable housing programs.