Category: “Civic” Podcast

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to take up – and will thereby let stand – a ruling that if there aren’t enough shelter beds or housing for homeless people, governments can’t cite them for sleeping or camping in public.

Journalist Julia Flynn Siler discusses her book “The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown” and takes Civic to visit the Cameron House, which housed rescued women and girls.

At this year’s FRESH festival of experimental dance, music and performance, artists are fostering healing from trauma such as domestic violence and sex trafficking through creative expression.

The San Francisco Community Land Trust pioneered a method of keeping people in housing they can afford: Buying small multi-unit buildings and turning them into cooperatives.

In late November, students and instructors at City College of San Francisco learned that nearly 300 classes had been slashed from the Spring roster to forestall a projected $13 million budget deficit.

In November 1969, a group of indigenous young people who called themselves “Indians of All Tribes” sailed to and began living on Alcatraz. The annual Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Gathering this year marked 50 years since an occupation of the island that sparked a movement.

Years after the Mission Language and Vocational School leased part of the building to a tenant who had the option to split off and buy that part of its building, the school, together with a group of other nonprofits and with backing from the city, has bought it back.