S.F. supervisor looks to restrict when landlords can evict ‘nuisance’ tenants
Supervisor Melgar wants to pass legislation that spells out what counts as a nuisance when a landlord evicts a tenant. Melgar said the current standard is one landlords can abuse.
Housing & Land Use
3 stories, 3 outletsPlanning Association Debates La Playa Safeway Development Plan
The Planning Association took up a proposal to replace the Safeway on La Playa Street with a new store and 562 homes. The project was streamlined under state law and the work of state Sen. Scott Wiener, which limits neighbors' input to city officials.
Tenants protest poor conditions in their San Francisco homes
Tenants of a San Francisco building protested again over conditions they call unsafe, after eight months of withholding rent. A Housing Rights Committee spokesperson said the company that manages the building, Mosser, has not responded, and Supervisor Jackie Fielder said one in four tenants citywide is evicted for not paying a full month's rent. Fielder has introduced a bill to bar those evictions.
El alcalde Lurie tacha la Propuesta I de ‘fondo turbio’. Su oficina controlaría el dinero.
Mayor Daniel Lurie is calling Proposition I, a housing measure, a slush fund, even though the money it would raise for affordable and social housing would be controlled by his own office. The column criticizes the mayor for telling voters that his office administers an opaque fund.
City Hall
1 story, 1 outletSan Francisco Democratic Party Chair Apologizes After Sexual Assault Policy ‘Broke Down’
San Francisco Democratic Party chair Nancy Tung apologized for how the party handled sexual misconduct allegations and for endorsing Manny Yekutiel in the District 8 supervisor race. Yekutiel left the race last week after three men accused him of sexual assault, and Tung said the endorsement hurt accuser Brad Chapin and Ryan Clark and his partner.
Public Safety
3 stories, 2 outlets‘Surveillance maximalism’: SFPD uses camera technology Israelis used to track Palestinians
The San Francisco Police Department runs BriefCam software inside its Real Time Investigative Center, where it analyzes hours of video from city cameras. The same technology was used by Israeli authorities to track Palestinians.
Man shot and killed Sunday, 2nd fatal shooting in Bayview in a week
A man was shot and killed in Bayview-Hunters Point on Sunday afternoon. It was the second fatal shooting in the neighborhood in one week.
Warfield staff describe fear, chaos before fatal shooting of security guard
Warfield employees described chaos and fear before security guard Ulysses Tykee Davis was fatally shot in downtown San Francisco. Davis worked as a security guard at the venue.
Immigration
2 stories, 2 outletsHow 3 Daughters Have Coped After ICE Detained Their Mother in San Francisco
Rosa, a mother of three who lives in San Francisco's Sunnydale neighborhood, was held for nearly 11 months at an immigration detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, before her release this spring. Her three daughters looked after themselves for almost a year, and KQED is not using her last name because she fears it could hurt her visa application and because she is a domestic violence victim.
Assembly staffer Ho Yin Mo released after more than two weeks in ICE detention
Ho Yin Mo, a Chinese-speaking aide in Assemblymember Catherine Stefani's San Francisco office, was released on Oct. 2 after an immigration judge granted him bail. Stefani's office called his Sept. 17 detention at a Las Vegas airport wrongful and said his immigration case continues.