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Local and state officials have been announcing their intentions to invest billions into addressing homelessness, and two reports laying out strategies to bring the majority of unsheltered people in the region indoors have made headlines in recent months. » Read more
With less than two weeks remaining before San Francisco landlords will be allowed to evict tenants for unpaid rents that were due during the pandemic, the state had sent checks to a small fraction of the 3,400 households that have requested rent assistance. » Read more
More than 20 years ago, filmmaker Monika Treut documented the lives of a group of people in San Francisco exploring gender and what it means to be transgender to create a film called “Gendernauts.” In Treut’s new film, “Genderation,” she follows up with these same protagonists to see how shifting social scenes, political climates and individual circumstances of their lives have affected them. » Read more
A wave of evictions could wash across the city next month, tenant attorneys say, even as lawmakers scramble to prevent widespread displacement.
“I’m afraid that we’re talking about thousands of people,” said Ora Prochovnick, director of litigation and policy at the Eviction Defense Collaborative. » Read more
At Crocker Amazon Park in the Excelsior, six acres of formerly underutilized land owned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has been turned into an urban farm through the efforts of People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights, known as PODER. » Read more
In the new documentary “No Straight Lines,” artists who took serious risks by outing themselves and creating comics about the experiences and lives of LGBT Americans look back on their work and its impacts. Director Vivian Kleiman, a Peabody Award winning filmmaker, producer, director and writer, talked with “Civic” about how these artists shaped the underground comics scene and some of the film’s more poignant moments. » Read more
Disclaimer: Laura Wenus is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter, which opposed an amendment to SB 98 that is now slated for removal.
Freedom of information advocates and journalists have criticized a number of instances in which law enforcement officers arrested, detained or even injured reporters at work covering protests in California. » Read more
San Francisco supervisors have passed eviction protections that would give renters a two-month reprieve after the state’s moratorium expires June 30, but a wave of displacement could still be coming.
On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to impose a local eviction moratorium for 60 days. » Read more
Members of San Francisco’s Street Crisis Response Team show up to situations when someone is experiencing a mental health or substance-related crisis, as an alternative to police response, which can escalate such situations. Dr. Angelica Almeida with the Department of Public Health, Chief Simon Pang from the fire department, clinician Shari Lachin and peer counselor Miguel Levya talked with “Civic” about how the team engages people in distress and why the work is so important to them even if there sometimes aren’t enough resources to meet the need. » Read more
Edward Armstrong, who lives in his vehicle in the Bayview District, received an unexpected amenity shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic hit San Francisco. A mobile “Pit Stop” public toilet, complete with a hand washing station, was rolled up to the corner of Ingalls and Bancroft streets, one block from his RV. » Read more