SF Daily Brief for October 13, 2026
Today on the SF Daily Brief: “SF Dems handily endorse Gary McCoy in fraught meeting after Manny Yekutiel exit,” plus “‘Not everybody deserves to live here’: Renters find empathy, and mockery, on Nextdoor.”
- SF Dems handily endorse Gary McCoy in fraught meeting after Manny Yekutiel exit
- ‘Not everybody deserves to live here’: Renters find empathy, and mockery, on Nextdoor
- Bigone ‘Murder House’ Listed for $6,300 a Month
- ‘Artist Space Trust’ Opens Applications for Affordable Duplex In SF’s Mission District
- Chinatown rally backs Props C and I and opposes Prop D
- Ex-SFPD sergeant kills wife: former SFPD deputy chief, and daughter in alleged ‘double-murder suicide’
- Poll: Scandal tanks Manny Yekutiel’s support. The D8 race is down to 2 candidates
- Suspect fleeing on scooter killed in S.F. police chase on Mission St.
- SFUSD to Replace School Lottery With Neighborhood-Based Enrollment System
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Good morning, and welcome to SF Daily Brief. It is Tuesday, October 13, 2026, and here is what is happening in San Francisco today. We have several local stories to get to. In local politics, the Democratic County Central Committee endorsed Gary McCoy for District 8 supervisor.
The endorsement came at a meeting where critics of party chair Nancy Tung called on her to resign over the party's handling of the race. Tung did not step down. The endorsement followed Manny Yekutiel's exit from the race. Housing is also on people's minds in a different setting.
Renters looking for a one-bedroom in San Francisco under $3,800 are getting both sympathy and mockery when they ask for help on Nextdoor. The piece collects the posts from renters hunting apartments and the lectures about rent control that follow those requests. The requests are for one-bedroom apartments under $3,800. In the Sunset, a house with three bedrooms and two baths at 2518 46th Ave. is listed for rent at $6,300 a month.
That price comes after earlier listings at higher prices. The house is tied to Bigone and has been called the "Murder House. A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Bigone's son, which was previously reported by The Sunset Beacon, said Bigone paid $3,200 a month in cash. In the Mission District, another housing program is open for applications.
Artist Space Trust is taking applications through November 22 for a duplex. The duplex is the first property in the Berkeley nonprofit's Artist Housing Commons, as the SF Examiner reported. Under the community land trust model, the group keeps ownership of the land and sells the homes to artists below market rate, according to KQED. Celadon House will eventually house two artist households.
The applications are open now. In Chinatown, the focus turns to the November ballot. Community groups rallied Saturday at the plaza above the Chinatown-Rose Pak station. They urged Asian American voters to support Propositions C and I and reject Proposition D, Sing Tao reported.
Speakers said C and I would pay to build and preserve affordable housing. They said that would keep Chinatown seniors and working families from being pushed out. They also said D would raise the signature threshold for ballot measures from 2 percent of voters to 8 percent. The rally was held Saturday.
From the police department, there is serious news. Kevin Mannix, a retired San Francisco police sergeant, is the suspect in an alleged double murder-suicide. The alleged double murder-suicide killed his wife, former San Francisco police deputy chief Ann Mannix, and the couple's youngest daughter, Katherine. The District 8 race has shifted again.
A poll commissioned by GrowSF found that Manny Yekutiel's support collapsed and the District 8 supervisor race is down to two candidates. GrowSF is the moderate-aligned political group that had previously supported Yekutiel. Yekutiel left the race after the scandal. In SoMa, police pursued a man on a scooter on Mission Street.
The man was wanted on a warrant and died Monday after fleeing police. Police say he struck his head on a street fixture. Witnesses told Mission Local that an officer tackled him into a bus shelter. The man died after the chase.
The school board is also set to vote today. The San Francisco school board is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a neighborhood-based enrollment plan. The plan would replace the district's lottery by the fall of 2028, as the Chronicle reported. Families have urged the district to slow down, saying the options do not address inequities in underserved neighborhoods.
Option B would guarantee a seat at a family's neighborhood school for those who apply on time while allowing other applications citywide. Option C would guarantee a neighborhood seat even for late applicants but limit other choices to citywide programs, per EdSource and the SF Standard. The vote is set for Tuesday. Thank you for listening to SF Daily Brief.
You can find the full written brief, with every story from today's episode, at sfdailybrief.com. Thanks again for joining us, and have a good day.