Mission Cabins, a village of 60 tiny homes serving up to 68 adults experiencing homelessness, hopes to open by the end of March at 1979 Mission Street next to the […]

After controversy, Mission Cabins to open in early April at 16th St. BART plaza

The long-awaited trial in the lawsuit filed by homeless San Franciscans against the city will have to wait until at least this summer to begin, per a ruling today by […]

Homeless sweeps lawsuit to be paused until U.S. Supreme Court ruling

Even though San Francisco has added several hundred residential treatment beds for people with mental-health or substance-use disorders in recent years, the city is far from meeting the needs of […]

SF adds hundreds of treatment beds, but need is far greater 

In many ways, the former Big Lots store site, which is set to house an affordable senior apartment complex, is unconventional. It is on a hill, it is L-shaped, it […]

70 affordable senior housing units coming to not-so-big lot

Potrero Yard, the Mission’s largest-ever planned affordable housing project, has shrunk by 48 units, its developers announced today at a Planning Commission hearing. The project, whose final environmental impact report […]

Potrero Yard, Mission’s largest affordable housing, shrinks to 465 units

If you roam around San Francisco, you’ll likely run into garden planters on sidewalks and in public plazas.  Some are large, shiny and steel, like bathtubs or animal troughs; others […]

The Mission’s response to homelessness: More than 2,000 planters

There are plenty of reasons beyond beneficence and altruism for a city to establish a senior home repair program. Picking up the costs of repairing old people’s homes cuts down […]

SF senior home repair program has repaired 3 homes in 2 years

“Tenants should have full recourse to the judicial system if they experience harm due to substandard conditions,” per Melgar’s legislation. 

Supe wants to make it easier to sue landlords over shoddy housing

"I really don't think there's anything that. better encapsulates how far we've come," said Sam Moss, executive director of Mission Housing.

MEDA, Mission Housing tapped to build the ‘Marvel in the Mission’

“I want to acknowledge how much thought and work went into this project,” Supervisor Myrna Melgar said after the 9-2 vote. 

Supes pass housing measure, duck state blowback

The California housing department has once again made it clear: It’s watching San Francisco.  Supervisor Myrna Melgar said that 45 minutes before Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, the city received […]

CA housing dept. admonishes SF as supes approach deadline

“I have to say, I think it’s okay to have more time to get it right,” said Supervisor Myrna Melgar. “We have no power to compel them to do so … but I think it’s OK to ask.” 

SF supes, ‘flirting with disaster,’ want more time on housing mandate

Mother and son successfully crossed, while Gutiérrez was detained in Texas, where he’s currently located.

Recién llegados: Los niños inmigrantes acuden a las escuelas de San Francisco

“To come here and act like we need to get over it, that’s disrespectful,” one woman said. 

‘Insulting’ 10-story proposal for 22nd and Mission site presented to skeptical crowd

“Once people see this, they’ll say, ‘I want this,’” Engardio said.

SF commissioners tweak plan to build taller housing on Westside

“Fortunately, this project is going to be one of the first ones out of the gate to be able to take advantage of” the new law, said land use attorney John Kelvin

Mission ‘group housing’ moves forward, likely to cut some affordable homes

As San Francisco prepares to build some 82,000 homes in the next eight years — half of which must be affordable — experts have pointed out a major concern: How to pay for it. 

SF wants to put $300 million housing bond on March 2024 ballot

“I thought it would end in bankruptcy. It’s a happier ending than I thought,” Quinlan excitedly told Mission Local in 2019, believing development was around the corner. 

He waited 26 years to develop. Instead, he was foreclosed on.

The 513-unit Potrero Yard affordable housing development will break ground in 2024 and finish in late 2027, its developers announced on Thursday. 

Potrero Yard, Mission’s largest affordable housing project, will break ground in 2024

Soon after Lydia Bransten, the executive director of the Gubbio Project, laid out the ground rules for Wednesday night’s meeting on already-approved tiny homes in the Mission, an attendee shouted […]

Residents bash, support tiny homes planned for the Mission

Read in English La lista de espera para la lotería de vales de la Sección 8, un programa federal de asistencia que ayuda a inquilinos de bajos ingresos a pagar […]

La lotería a la lista de espera de la Sección 8 abrirá el 23 de octubre

Supervisor Hillary Ronen has changed her tune on the addition of 60 tiny homes proposed for the corner of 16th and Mission streets, writing in a community newsletter today that […]

Ronen pivots, now supports tiny homes for homeless at 16th and Mission 

Leer en español The lottery waitlist for Section 8 vouchers, a federal rental assistance program that helps low-income tenants pay rent for private housing, will open at 8 a.m. on […]

Section 8 lottery waitlist opens Oct. 23

San Francisco’s land use committee continued Mayor London Breed’s housing streamlining legislation on Monday, spotlighting concerns that the law might ease the demolition of rent-controlled housing in certain circumstances.  The […]

Supes fear mayor’s housing law could imperil rent-controlled units

Amble by the weed- and detritus-choked vacant lot at 22nd and Mission streets during the rainy months and you’ll hear them: Frogs. That’s an odd sound for the bustling heart […]

Who should make a killing off a lethal Mission fire?

"The hearing will be meaningful,” said one Planning Department official.

22nd and Mission fire site owner will seek 10-story housing project

Locals may have noticed that the prominent One $ Store on the corner of 17th and Mission streets has been reduced to rubble, signaling the official construction of a 28-unit, […]

One $ Store at 17th and Mission demolished to make way for housing

“No one needs to move or sign anything before getting help,” Doan said. In San Francisco, tenants have the right to free counsel and there’s at least eight clinics San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition is associated with across the city. 

SF Covid-19 eviction protections expire Tuesday

Earlier this year, a technician waving a device resembling a magic wand became preoccupied with Adam Michaels’ downstairs shower. “Woah!” Michaels recalls him exclaiming. “We got a hotspot here!”  This […]

SF land-use process remains strange, terrible and toxic

After a six-hour Board of Appeals hearing on Wednesday, an appeal to delay a 100-percent affordable housing project at 2550 Irving St. was denied. The project will now almost certainly […]

Irving St. affordable housing to proceed after soil toxin appeal is rejected — again

Michael Campesino pursued the 25th Street eviction in his usual fashion.  In November 2019, he tapped his company to buy the six-unit, aging Mission District apartment building. The building at […]

Mission landlord tries third Ellis Act eviction in five years