Tag: Mission Street
Mission community fights to save cancer-support service from displacement
Landlord wants to replace Circulo de Vida with a tech firm
By Christopher D. Cook
FEBRUARY 10, 2015 -- The symbolism could not be more potent: in the heart of the...
54 residents displaced in raging Mission fire
One dead, six injured -- and a lot of families and small businesses out on the streets
By Calindra Revier
JANUARY 29, 2015 -- The four-alarm fire last night at 22nd...
The 8 Washington of Mission Street
By Tim Redmond
OCTOBER 6, 2014 – Does the Chron even have anybody working on the weekends any more? I mean, a large, festive march – maybe 300 people, maybe...
Investigation: New condos aren’t owned by San Francisco residents
When condos in a triplet of luxury towers near the Embarcadero called The Brannan began selling in 2000, wealthy buyers snapped them up. Nine years later, developers of the...
Tax-break tech hiring a bust in the Tenderloin
By Tom Carter, Mark Hedin and Geoff Link
SEPT 15, 2014 – When the Twitter tax break was signed, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s office had high hopes that the...
Protests work! Ellis Act eviction called off after noisy direct-action campaign
By Tim Redmond
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 – A local real-estate speculator has dropped his effort to evict four Duboce Street tenants under the Ellis Act after a series of protests...
Realty office people respond badly to modest tenant demonstration
By Tim Redmond
AUGUST 12, 2014 -- A few moments after tenant activist Erin McElroy stepped out of a Vanguard Properties office on Mission Street and began chanting “Stop the...
The battle of 16th and Mission: Inside the campaign to “clean up” the plaza and build luxury housing
By Julia Carrie Wong
MARCH 18, 2014 -- Laura Guzman, the director of homeless services for Mission Neighborhood Health Center, had the question that was on everybody’s mind at a...
