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Jim’s, Mission diner, will keep cooking under nonprofit ownership 

Fear not, we won’t be missing the beloved green salsa at Jim’s Restaurant for some time — breakfast is here to stay. Mission Local has learned that the Mission Language and Vocational School will take over neighborhood mainstay Jim’s, which invited customers in today for its last day in business under current ownership. This afternoon, a line was seen reaching the corner of the building at 20th and Mission streets, and the diner had to take a waitlist for people to get in. Mission Language and Vocational School, a nonprofit that offers workforce development and small business supportive services, will staff the restaurant with graduates from its catering program and culinary school.  The nonprofit will keep on Beto, the longtime cook. The owners, husband and wife Kim Ok Un and Kim Jung Nyun, are retiring. MLVS is expected to take over the restaurant […]

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S.F. nonprofit saves 16 units for low-income tenants in Mission

So here’s a good-news San Francisco story. Luis Zeron, who works at a bakery, and his wife Sandra Martinez, who works at McDonalds, paid $2,100 last month for a one-bedroom unit on 14th Street across from the Armory. Going forward, their rent will drop by 21 percent to $1,650. That is thanks to the Community Land Trust’s recent purchase of the two-story, 16-unit building unit at 320 14th St. where the couple lives. “We feel safer,” said Zeron, beaming and noting that the broken windows in the living room they have called home since 2018 have, since the Community Land Trust came in, been replaced.Luis Zeron (left) and his wife Sandra Martinez (right). Photo by Xueer Lu. Dec. 5, 2024.Yes, there is more work to do — there is still mold on their bathroom towel rack and the bathroom needs new light […]

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Awaiting funding, nonprofit covers costs of 24th St. vaccine site

The Latino Task Force, a Mission District-based nonprofit that took the reins of pandemic-response in the neighborhood, has been fundraising for the last few weeks to keep a local vaccination site open that provides vaccines and test kits to the Mission’s residents.The nonprofit was expecting San Francisco to step in with public funds — after all, the city had for the last four years partially covered the cost of running the site, which offers flu and COVID-19 vaccines and test kits.The city delayed the funding for the program after a kerfuffle in the city’s contracting process: The Latino Task Force’s contracting partner and a mobile healthcare company, BayPLS, was initially awarded a city contract for the site, after receiving a passing score on its proposal. But on Oct. 23 the city said it made a scoring error, and that BayPLS — […]

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