Dr. Kim Rhoads, who has been working on community-led responses to the pandemic, says what should drive decision making and risk mitigation is simply how much virus is in the community.
Category: “Civic” Podcast
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Community, Homelessness
Photographer Captures Homelessness Crisis in ‘Division Street’
In search of a project, photographer Robert Gumpert started wandering around San Francisco. He began talking with and photographing people he encountered who were living on the street and in shelters. The resulting book “Division Street,” named after a street in the city where homeless people have often established encampments, will be released this year.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Neighborhoods, Social Services
Chinatown Center Carries on Legacy of Refuge, Service
In the late 1800s, Chinese women and girls were arriving by the boatload in San Francisco, and often forced into sex work and indentured servitude while officials turned a blind eye, or even enabled the practice. A group of women began to rescue them through what came to be known as the Cameron House.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Environment, Labor, Utilities
After You Unbox, Bin Your Recyclables the Right Way
With a holiday coming up that usually involves a lot of boxes, we revisit two stories about recycling. Follow recycling driver Gareth Willey on his morning route and hear how recycling is sorted by Recology.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Housing
Hundreds of Buildings Behind on Quake Retrofits, Though Few Show Gas Leak Risk
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.
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.