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Zendo Without Walls
En Español For an ordained Soto Zen Buddhist priest, Jana Drakka is stressed out. “How do I live as a monk out here? I can’t beg as a monk would traditionally,” Drakka said recently outside the Royan,...
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A Family Home In An SRO
En Español Elmer, an eight-month old who likes to show off his brand new teeth with a smile, has spent all but one month of his life living in an 8-by-10 square-foot room that he shares with his...
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Single Mother With Child
En Español Above the pleasant gurgle of a fish tank full of large goldfish, two white plastic bags full of groceries hang from the ceiling. Every month, Lilia says, an exterminator comes to the Julian...
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Women Seek Stability in SROs
It’s the first of the month, and Tree is sailing around in silk slips and high heels. She’s new to the 248-room Mission Hotel, the city’s biggest single room occupancy (SRO) hotel. It’s government...
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Arson Attempt At Valencia SRO
An unidentified man set a fire at the Crown Hotel and SRO at 16th and Valencia late Monday morning. According to witnesses, the man broke the glass of a fire extinguisher case inside the building and...
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The owner of the Graywood Hotel, a single-room occupancy hotel damaged by a June 2016 blaze that displaced more than 50 people, has put the building up for sale amidst extensive renovations. The...
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COVID-19: Hotels bidding against one another to provide shelter space to San...
A Request for Proposals is live, and hotels are, in essence, bidding against one another in order to allow San Francisco to turn empty hotels into shelter spaces — for […] COVID-19: Hotels bidding...
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Breaking: Hotels have offered San Francisco some 8,500 rooms for the COVID-19...
Over the weekend, hotels answered San Francisco’s call for rooms in the COVID-19 crisis — some 8,500 rooms have been offered to the city at varying costs. Five supervisors will […] Breaking: Hotels...
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Breaking: San Francisco now planning to obtain 7K hotel rooms for COVID-19...
San Francisco’s policy on where to house vulnerable homeless residents during the COVID-19 crisis has resembled Lombard Street in its in mass of twists and turns — and another curve […] Breaking: San...
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Mayor London Breed blew off unanimous legislation to put homeless in hotels....
As of Monday, San Francisco had placed 621 people in shelter-in-place rooms in city hotels. This, it would appear, is the extent of vulnerable, likely homeless people who have been […] Mayor London...
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Mayor London Breed hit with ‘demand letter’— precursor to a lawsuit — after...
Mayor London Breed received a demand letter this morning — the precursor to a potential lawsuit — insisting she follow the Board of Supervisors’ unanimously passed ordinance to procure 8,250 […] Mayor...
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San Francisco spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a week for COVID-19...
First, the good news: San Francisco has not devolved into a charnel house; we have not become New York City. Our first-responders have (ostensibly) not been exposed to COVID-19 at […] San Francisco...
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Mayor opens hotel rooms for COVID-19-positive San Franciscans who need them
En español With produce: If you touch it, you buy it, says Health Department Any San Franciscan who is COVID-19 positive and cannot self-isolate is now eligible for a hotel […] Mayor opens hotel rooms...
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Critics rip city plan to address Tenderloin encampments as doing little to...
Advocates for the homeless said they are grateful for the attention the mayor is giving the Tenderloin in the city’s new neighborhood plan. But they complained about the delay — […] Critics rip city...
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A supervisor, a guest, and a nurse walk into a COVID-19 hotel …
The state of the city’s COVID-19 hotels depends upon who you ask. And when. Michael Fitzwater is laughing, but it ain’t funny. He was struck by a car while […] A supervisor, a guest, and a nurse...
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Major operation in the Tenderloin begins to move homeless off the streets and...
4:45 p.m. Chelsea Crumpler with the Coalition on Homelessness said the efforts for today and the coming days are being coordinated by the Healthy Streets Operation Center (HSOC). The Homeless […]...
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