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Proposition K Aims to Pave the Way for Municipal Social Housing in San Francisco

by Laura Wenus September 11, 2020September 11, 2020

Rents may be falling as the coronavirus pandemic reshapes our economy, but San Francisco is still in an affordable housing crisis. Proposition K on the November ballot represents an attempt to allow the city to create new low-rent housing units, a municipal version of public housing.

An aerial rendering shows the proposed BUILD development at 700 Innes in Bayview-Hunters Point, with the city's proposed park at 900 Innes at bottom right.

Community, Environment, Housing, Neighborhoods, Parks & Open Space

Is This the Bayview’s Big Park Moment?

by Kristi Coale September 8, 2020September 8, 2020

The Bayview has the city’s attention – for better or for worse, depending on whom you ask. If voters approve a $487 million open-space bond measure in November, it will help fund a park at 900 Innes Ave., the first waterfront land the city’s Department of Recreation and Parks has ever owned. Yet, despite efforts to include the local community in the planning and the benefits, many are skeptical.

People congregate on the sidewalk to chat and sell found goods outside the Tenderloin Museum on Leavenworth and Eddy streets in late June.

Community, Coronavirus, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Neighborhoods

What Crowding Looks Like During a Pandemic: Dismal Days in the Tenderloin

by Christopher D. Cook August 28, 2020September 10, 2020

In a pandemic that mandates physical distancing, survival in the poverty-suffused Tenderloin is endangered by relentlessly overcrowded conditions, a dearth of open public spaces and limited mobility. Neighborhood residents suffer the city’s second-highest rate of COVID-19 infections — eclipsed only by the Bayview — and five times that of neighboring Nob Hill.

For a tenant facing income loss due to COVID-19, eviction protections at the state and local levels will soon end. Here's how they work.

Coronavirus, Economy & Business, Housing, Law & Justice

How Pandemic Eviction Protections Work in S.F.

by Noah Arroyo and Ciara Long August 27, 2020September 10, 2020

On Tuesday, Mayor London Breed extended until Dec. 1 her order blocking most evictions in the city. But that is just one aspect of eviction regulations, which are robust and complicated. Here’s how they affect renters.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed Tuesday extended her eviction moratorium through the end of November. For many tenants, that will delay displacement — a longstanding political issue in the city, as exemplified by this demonstration at the 2014 Pride Parade.

City Hall, Coronavirus, Economy & Business, Housing, Law & Justice

Breed Extends Eviction Moratorium to Dec. 1

by Noah Arroyo and Ciara Long August 26, 2020September 10, 2020

Mayor London Breed Tuesday gave San Francisco tenants an additional month to figure out how they will cover rent and avoid eviction, in light of economic hardships resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the soonest landlords could legally evict for nonpayment of rent is Dec. 1. That’s a month later than the previously announced eviction moratorium was set to end. The information was initially made public in a web post from the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco. The San Francisco Public Press received confirmation of these changes from Hugo Ramirez, a staff member at the Mayor’s office.

A gym in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood is one of many shuttered businesses that have thrown residents out of work, slicing incomes and prompting requests for help with rent.

Coronavirus, Economy & Business, Housing

Gap Widens Between Renter Shortfalls and S.F.’s Assistance Fund

by Noah Arroyo August 10, 2020September 10, 2020

San Francisco residents have requested four times the rent assistance City Hall can provide, indicating a widening gap between resident needs and the city’s ability to help. The city is in the process of giving out $7 million to help people cover rent — but it has received more than $28 million in requests from over 6,800 applications since this spring, according to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, which is disbursing the money from the Give2SF COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund.

“Quarantine Diary” depicts Yesica Prado’s personal experience living in an RV in Berkeley. As a CatchLight Local Fellow at the San Francisco Public Press, Prado spent the past year examining the culture of vehicle living in San Francisco and Berkeley. Her reporting and photojournalism are featured in “Driving Home: Surviving the Housing Crisis,” which she produced for the San Francisco Public Press in collaboration with the Bay Area visual storytelling nonprofit CatchLight through its CatchLight Local Initiative.

Bay Area, Driving Home: Surviving the Housing Crisis, Housing

‘Quarantine Diary’ Captures Experience of Living in an RV

by Yesica Prado August 5, 2020September 10, 2020

Photojournalist Yesica Prado spent the past year examining the culture of vehicle living in San Francisco and Berkeley. Her reporting and photojournalism are featured in “Driving Home: Surviving the Housing Crisis.” Prado created “Quarantine Diary” to show her personal experience living in an RV in Berkeley.

“Civic” Podcast, Bay Area, Housing

Bay Area Housing Group Addresses Community Uncertainty, Finance Questions in Pandemic

by Laura Wenus August 3, 2020September 10, 2020

When the fallout of the pandemic started to hit Richmond, the affordable housing organization Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services jumped into action, setting up a rapid response fund for families and making its money management and housing education courses virtual. Nikki Beasley, the organization’s executive director, spoke with “Civic” about inequities in housing and wealth in the Bay Area, how to think about financial and housing stability in a time of uncertainty and how crucial homeownership can be to that stability across generations.

Coronavirus, Housing, Law & Justice

Court Upholds S.F. Eviction Ban

by Noah Arroyo August 3, 2020September 10, 2020

A challenge to San Francisco’s eviction moratorium lost in court Monday. The San Francisco Apartment Association and three co-plaintiffs sued the City and County of San Francisco in June to overturn legislation that took eviction permanently off the table for unpaid rents due during the pandemic. They argued that it was an unconstitutional taking of […]

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