San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is pushing the city to designate up to five public sites for sanctioned homeless encampments in an effort to protect unhoused residents from COVID-19.
Category: Neighborhoods
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Coronavirus, Health, Neighborhoods
S.F. Mission District Has Most COVID-19 Cases
San Francisco’s Mission District has the highest number of COVID-19 infections, based on new data released on the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Data Tracker map.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Neighborhoods
How Sunset Neighbors Created a Mutual-Aid Society
Now more than 1,000 members strong, the Sunset Neighborhood Help Group is made entirely of volunteers and was sparked by just one person’s post offering to pick up groceries for those unable to leave their homes.
Posted inAging, Coronavirus, Neighborhoods
Coronavirus Spurs Neighbors in S.F.’s Sunset District to Create Mutual Aid Society
In less than two weeks,a well-meaning post in a neighborhood Facebook group has evolved into an extremely organized support system for an entire community during the time San Francisco’s COVID-19 shelter-in-place order is in effect.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Muni, Neighborhoods, Transportation
Why the Mission District Bus-Only Red Lanes Bug a Lot of People
Mission Local reporter Abe Rodriguez talks about the cons, and pros — easing traffic congestion and lessening air pollution — of the red bus-only lanes in the Mission District.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Arts & Culture, Land use, Neighborhoods
Documentary Explores What Shaped Mid-Market Street, Past and Present
The documentary “5 Blocks,” by Robert Cortlandt and Dan Goldes, explores the history, economic downturn and efforts to revitalize San Francisco’s mid-Market Street neighborhood, an area whose focal point is just five blocks. Goldes discusses what he learned in his conversations with neighborhood residents from different backgrounds, including an SRO dweller and a tech worker. […]
Posted inCommunity, Land use, Neighborhoods, Social Justice
Fillmore Revisited — How Redevelopment Tore Through the Western Addition
An excerpt from the book, “Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978” — about how so-called urban renewal displaced African Americans from their enclave in the city.
Posted inCommunity, Immigration, Labor, LGBTQ+, Neighborhoods
Latinos in This Liberal City: From San Francisco’s Big Strike to Gay Liberation
Years before charting the evolution and diversity of Latino political life in the city, a historian came here to become an activist. His book recalls major battlegrounds from the 1930s to the 1970s: union campaigns; civil rights organizing; elections; Great Society mobilizations; and feminist, gay and lesbian activism. Read an excerpt from “Latinos and the Liberal City” by Eduardo Contreras.
Posted inNeighborhoods, Public Safety, Social Justice
They Saved Girls and Women in Chinatown From Slavery
Donaldina Cameron captured the nation’s imagination at the turn of the 20th century. She was an early anti-human trafficking pioneer who ran a safe house for vulnerable girls and young women on the edge of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Read an excerpt from “The White Devil’s Daughters,” by Bay Area author Julia Flynn Siler.