Category: News

By Guy Marzorati, KQED News Fix Less than three months into implementation of an ordinance to legalize and regulate short-term rentals in San Francisco, city leaders and planners agree the law needs more work. The ordinance, which took effect Feb. 1, established a framework to register hosts and enforce limits on guest stays booked on […]

By Jeremy Dalmas, KALW Crosscurrents It is  8:08 a.m., the Friday before spring break, and under other circumstances Kathleen Byrnes would already be at work. “We would be in our classrooms preparing for the day, which is where we would rather be,” she said. But instead, she is out in front of Oakland’s Cleveland Elementary […]

By Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix A series of fatal fires in San Francisco  prompted a Board of Supervisors committee hearing, aimed at finding ways to install sprinklers in more of the city’s older apartment buildings. Both property owners and city officials acknowledge retrofitting older structures with sprinklers is likely to be difficult and costly, […]

By J. J. Barrow, Mission Local A handful of activists and tenants stood on the blustery corner of Mission and Cesar Chavez streets Monday afternoon, calling for residents to fight the city’s escalating eviction environment with the Mission District at its epicenter. Although Ellis Act evictions have declined by 48 percent over the previous year, […]

By Liz Pfeffer, KALW Crosscurrents March 29 was the last night Delilah Soto slept on the street. She is a recovering heroin addict who has been living in a tent in San Francisco’s Mission District with her girlfriend Rocky Anderson and their dog Sparta. That night, she learned they had another choice. Nearby, 1950 Mission […]

By Sam Harnett, The California Report Taxes have always been pretty easy for Enrique. He received W-2s, did the calculations himself and usually got a nice return. Then last year, all that changed after he signed up to drive for Lyft and Uber. The income Enrique earns from driving for these ride-service companies makes him […]

By Alex Emslie, KQED News Fix BART announced a new campaign Tuesday aimed at reducing the number of deaths and injuries on the system’s tracks. The effort includes short-term steps to begin immediately — including signs with the National Suicide Prevention phone number and training for BART staff most often on station platforms in how […]

By J. J. Barrow, Mission Local Public housing in the city as we know it is coming to an end — that is, it will become largely nonprofit owned and operated within the next two years as part of a national rehabilitation effort. Tenants at the Mission Dolores Senior Apartments are tentatively optimistic about the […]

By Elisabetta Silvestro, El Tecolote The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is planning to alter the 33-Stanyan bus line’s current route to San Francisco General Hospital and the 22-Filmore’s route to Third Street. The 33 will now turn at Guerrero Street instead of Mission Street. Instead of traveling along Potrero Avenue to the hospital, the […]

By Marisa Lagos, The California Report Maybe California is not so far from Ferguson, Mo., after all. A scathing report released by a civil rights group  Wednesday said that the Golden State’s structure of spiraling court fees and fines — which tend to disproportionately affect poor Californians — are “chillingly similar” to practices in Ferguson recently […]