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SF poised to beat DOJ to the punch, ban rent-fixing software

The city of San Francisco has lost over 60,000 residents since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic according to the census (3,660 in 2020; 55,136 in 2021; 4,605 in 2022). There’s been a bit of a resurgence since then; 2023 shows a net gain of a whole 276 people. But still, that’s a lot of missing persons in a city of a little over 800,000. Why is it that rent payments, while still lower than the recent peak in 2019, are still so high? Is there someone we can blame?On Tuesday afternoon, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors moved one step closer to answering that question, by passing an ordinance authored by Supervisor Aaron Peskin banning the sale or use of any algorithmic device that sets, or even  recommends, rents or vacancy levels for residential properties in San Francisco.  If it’s […]

Karl The Fog September 4, 2024

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What is your position on AVs operating in San Francisco?

Leer en español 閱讀中文版Welcome back to our “Meet the Candidates” series, where we ask the District 9 supervisorial hopefuls in the November 2024 election one question each week. Candidates are asked to answer questions on policy, ideology and more in 100 words or fewer.Answers are being published individually each week, but we are also archiving the weekly series here.If you know of other political events, let me know and I will add them to the post. We will not post a question next week, but we will be back the week after.I will be at Cafe de Olla (3388 19 St.) at 5. p.m. on Thursday September 6, to say hello and talk about the district, or you can email me at oscar.palma@missionlocal.com. This week’s question: What is your position on automated vehicles operating in San Francisco? Do you have any safety concerns? […]

Karl The Fog September 3, 2024

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Mission artists to be evicted from longtime art warehouse

Back in the 1990s at the Engine Works building at Capp and 17th, B-boys danced, the Mission Burrito Project passed out food to the homeless, and members of the Mission School art movement hung out, including photographer David Schubert and artist Margaret Kilgallen, who painted a mural in the building (it’s since been removed). Fast forward two decades and the converted warehouse was still an arts scene: The beach goth band The Growlers performed secret concerts, punk rock bands recorded albums, and bike messengers idled between deliveries. Using the space now are an artist who paints sideshows and city life, a mechanical engineer who builds lighting contraptions with LEDs, and a DJ who creates digital art to be projected during performances.But now that legacy is threatened. The artists who live at Engine Works were recently notified that they are being evicted under the […]

Karl The Fog September 3, 2024

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SF stabbing suspect goes on hit-and-run rampage

A stabbing suspect yesterday led police on a destructive chase throughout San Francisco during which he purportedly “attempted homicides with a vehicle,” striking multiple pedestrians. He is also accused of intentionally ramming a police vehicle in Dolores Park before eventually being captured. At just after 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, police responded to a stabbing scene in the 400 block of Broderick near Divisadero. The suspect drove south toward Fell; his alleged victim was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. During the suspect’s flight, he is accused of striking multiple pedestrians and vehicles. Police distinguished “attempted homicides with a vehicle” and “aggravated assaults with a vehicle on pedestrians and Emergency personnel throughout San Francisco.” Multiple victims were hospitalized. When a police car approached the suspect’s vehicle in Dolores Park, the suspect responded by ramming the squad car. The officer within was hospitalized with […]

Karl The Fog September 2, 2024

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Fire strikes two-unit building on Balmy Alley

A fire broke out in a two-unit building at 50 Balmy Alley on Saturday evening, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. The building is located near Harrison, between 24th and 25th streets.There were no injuries, and no one was displaced, said the SFFD. The fire department is conducting an investigation into the cause of the fire.A group of people working a taco stand in the alley on Sunday morning said they witnessed the fire, and saw a lot of smoke but no flames. They said the woman who lives in one of the affected units is temporarily staying across the street. Anne Li is a reporting intern from Little Rock, Arkansas. She writes and edits for her campus newspaper, The Stanford Daily. Contact her at anne 'at' missionlocal.com. More by Anne Li Source: missionlocal.org

Karl The Fog September 1, 2024

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Vea cómo se postulan: Safaí, el candidato de los obreros, trabaja para apuntalar el respaldo sindical

Read in English Mission Local está publicando artículos de campaña para cada una/uno de los principales contendientes en la carrera por la alcaldía, alternando entre los candidatos semanalmente hasta noviembre. Esta semana:Ahsha Safaí. Lea los artículos anteriores aquí.El viernes por la mañana, Ahsha Safaí llegó al desayuno del Consejo Laboral de San Francisco previo al Día del Trabajo en el Hotel InterContinental, en el centro de la ciudad, alrededor de las 10 de la mañana. Safaí, que llevaba ocho años de carrera sindical cuando se postuló por segunda vez -y con éxito- como supervisor del distrito 11, se sentó junto a Olga Miranda, presidenta del sindicato SEIU Local 87 y antigua jefa suya.Safaí conoce bien a Miranda: Fue el director político del Local 87, que representa a los conserjes, de 2008 a 2016, trabajando en la inscripción de nuevos miembros en […]

Karl The Fog September 1, 2024

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Sunset Night Market was simply too packed to campaign

Mission Local is publishing campaign dispatches for each of the major contenders in the mayor’s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: Ahsha Safaí. Read earlier dispatches here.In San Francisco, night markets tend to start when it’s not night yet. Friday’s Sunset Night Market was no exception. Spanning across seven blocks on Irving Street, from 19th to 26th Avenue, the night market returned for the second year after its previous success and has doubled in size. Around 6 p.m., streets were already packed with people eager to line up for various food trucks and sit with friends around tables covered in green, plaid tablecloths.  At the 21st Avenue stage, belly dancers mingled with the audience: “We want to teach you some movements so we can all dance together!” But the crowd seemed a bit shy, with a few kids dancing […]

Karl The Fog August 31, 2024

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Safaí, the labor candidate, working to shore up union backing

Mission Local is publishing campaign dispatches for each of the major contenders in the mayor’s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: Ahsha Safaí. Read earlier dispatches here.On Friday morning, Ahsha Safaí arrived at the San Francisco Labor Council’s pre-Labor Day breakfast at the InterContinental Hotel downtown at around 10 a.m. Safaí, who was eight years into a labor career when he first ran for public office in 2016 for District 11 supervisor, sat down next to Olga Miranda, the president of SEIU Local 87 and his former boss. Safaí knows Miranda well: He was the political director for Local 87, which represents janitors, from 2008 to 2016, working on signing up new members in non-unionized workplaces, organizing strikes, and pressuring politicians to support the union’s various campaigns, like involving custodians in talks when the city asked residents and downtown […]

Karl The Fog August 31, 2024

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Pachyman and Osees bring big dub-punk energy to the Chapel

When Pachy García, a.k.a. Pachyman, opens for the punk-adjacent Osees as part of their annual fall residency at The Chapel on Tuesday, Sept. 3, the musician will be taking part in a nearly 50-year-old tradition started by groundbreaking DJ Don Letts.In 1977, Letts was the DJ at the Roxy in London, also known as the first punk club — like, ever. But, despite the raw new sounds and aesthetics of the bands taking the stage, there were no punk records in the club for him to spin before or after shows: All he had was dub. That’s how Letts learned that the punk patrons — who had come out to see the Clash, the Sex Pistols and the Slits — also loved the unconventional, anti-establishment vibe of reggae. There were those brain-numbing tuff bass lines, lyrics that spoke to strife […]

Karl The Fog August 30, 2024

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