A new audit found that few retrofitted buildings have a suspected gas line hazard that caused an uproar earlier this year. But it’s not all good news. Hundreds of buildings overshot the retrofit program’s deadline for seismic work.
Category: “Civic” Podcast
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, City Hall, Housing
Seeing Signs of Speculation, SF Allocates Millions to Buy Housing
Tenants, advocates and city legislators are worried about real estate investors buying multi-unit housing properties like this one only to evict all of the tenants and sell the buildings for a profit. They want the city and the nonprofits it works with to buy those buildings instead of leaving them for speculators to snap up.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Bay Area, Climate Change, Environment, Utilities
Growing Bay Area Need Not Use More Water, Report Says
The Bay Area can house millions more people without increasing its water use, according to a new report from the urbanist and water-use think tanks SPUR and the Pacific Institute. This could be done by continuing to improve water conservation efforts while concentrating on developing infill housing to prevent urban sprawl.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Land use, Parks & Open Space, Social Justice
Native Activists, Interior Secretary, Commemorate Alcatraz Occupation
More than half a century after they occupied the island in a monthslong protest for indigenous sovereignty, Native American activists gathered on Alcatraz on Saturday to watch the nation’s first indigenous secretary of the interior commemorate the occasion.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Government & Politics, Health
Mental Health Advocates Call for Voluntary Treatment as Spears Conservatorship Ends
As a judge in Los Angeles was deciding to end pop singer Britney Spears’ conservatorship, a small group of mental health activists staged a demonstration in front of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Many said they want to the practice of conservatorship to be abolished.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Community, Social Services
Veterans Help One Another at SF Memorial Building Resource Hub
While veterans are entitled to many benefits, finding them can be complicated and time-consuming. OneVet OneVoice connects veterans with housing, employment, education and healthcare.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Government & Politics, Homelessness
SF Encampment Clearings Mostly Fail to Connect Residents to Services, Report Alleges
A report from the Coalition on Homelessness alleges that the city’s encampment clearing practices are illegal and often fail to connect homeless people to the services they need.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Bay Area, Climate Change, Environment
Bay Area Organizers Take Climate, Indigenous Rights Advocacy to Global Summit
Thousands of delegates from around the world will meet next week in Glasgow, Scotland to discuss their nations’ commitments to addressing the climate crisis at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Among those attending will be local organizers from the NDN Collective, an indigenous-led and -staffed organization.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Community, Coronavirus, Social Services
Knock-Knock: Have You Been Vaccinated Against COVID-19?
In Bayview Hunters Point, most residents have already gotten their shots. One community organizer says part of the reason for that high vaccination rate is because of on-the-ground outreach work that local groups have been doing. That work continues and will for the foreseeable future.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Education, Government & Politics
Officials Vow to Fix Crumbling School: ‘We Have Failed You’
Vermin infestation and electrical malfunction. A copy machine in the restroom. Falling ceiling tiles. Parents, students and staff at Buena Vista Horace Mann School in the Mission testified at recent hearings about these and other chronic maintenance problems they say have plagued the school for years. Officials promised swift action, but delayed a vote on how much money to allocate toward repairs at the school by two weeks.