Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu, Mission Local Before its closure in 2010, a house called “Marty’s Place” served as a private homeless shelter for those living with HIV/AIDS. Soon the longtime institution, on Treat and 25th, will open again; when it does, it will become the first permanently affordable housing cooperative for the city’s LGBTQ community living […]

By Becca Andrews, Bay Nature Walk a few feet into the jungle on the west side of San Francisco’s Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve, and you will come to an unusual three-headed eucalyptus tree. Its single trunk is firmly rooted, and three trees sprout tenuously from the base, limbs stretching out away from the prevailing […]

By Isabel Angell, KQED News Fix City College of San Francisco is mulling over one of its final options in its fight to stay open. The commission overseeing its fate rejected new evidence Monday that school administrators presented in hopes to prove it has fixed financial and managerial problems behind the threatened loss of accreditation. […]

By Melanie Young, KALW/New America Media Tenants are facing a tough time in San Francisco. The city has some of the nation’s highest rents, and laws like the Ellis Act have made evictions front page news. But there are pockets of affordability, like in Chinatown, where the average rent is one-third as much as in other […]

By Adam Teitelbaum, KALW Crosscurrents “The goal is zero waste by 2020, and we think that is an achievable goal.” Those words from former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom  in 2009 promoted the idea of diverting all waste from landfills. It was actually an official resolution passed  in the Willie Brown administration. Now, in 2014, […]

By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix California’s water bureaucracy has approved penalties against the hydro-criminals among us who do things like wash sidewalks and dump too much water on our lawns. Penalties could be as much as $500 per offense. It remains to be seen how the scores and scores of water agencies that will […]

By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu, Mission Local The Bay Area, and the Mission in particular, has long been a refuge for immigrants fleeing their country of origin for refuge. However, with a surging number of predominantly young migrants escaping intensified violence in Central America, the Mission District’s leading immigrant advocacy organizations are assisting underage migrants in need […]

By KQED News Staff/KQED News Fix We’ve been covering the housing crisis for a while now, so we’re quite taken with this photo essay looking at a little-explored component of San Francisco’s housing stock. “Life Inside S.F.’s Vanishing Single Resident Occupancies,” by James Hosking and Jeremy Lybarger, was published Friday in The Bold Italic. Read […]

 By Rigoberto Hernandez, Mission Local It is become a common San Francisco cry: If you want your beloved business to stay in the city, you need to support it. Several Mission businesses have tried new ways to rally their customers and pivot their operations, but in a changing retail environment, it is tough going. Viracocha […]

By Dan Brekke, KQED Science/News Fix California water officials, confronting the possibility that the state’s drought will continue into a fourth year, are proposing a strict set of new regulations that would bar residential water users from hosing down sidewalks and overwatering their lawns. Violation of the new rules could carry penalties of $500 per […]