SF Daily Brief for November 10, 2026

It's Tuesday, November 10, 2026, and this is SF Daily Brief. Supervisor-elect Gary McCoy says he still intends to turn a gas station in the Castro into housing. McCoy was elected in November to represent District 8. He plans to inventory potential sites and speed up permitting after his swearing-in in January.

According to SFGATE, the Castro has two gas stations, a Chevron and Castro Gas and Food Mart. A 2003 underground tank leak was investigated at the Chevron site, and a 2024 finding said residual soil contamination could pose a risk to development there. In Golden Gate Park, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Monday that Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is donating $100 million to the city's parks department. Lurie made the announcement at the Conservatory of Flowers.

The gift is the largest San Francisco has received from a single donor. Lurie said he hoped other San Francisco entrepreneurs would give too. Chesky, whose company is worth about $100 billion, said much of his success came from the city. In downtown politics, the chief executive of a nonprofit aligned with Lurie is out after little more than a year.

Shola Olatoye is no longer chief executive of the San Francisco Downtown Development Corporation. The organization gave no reason for her departure. Olatoye is a longtime housing executive. In a civil case, a judge ordered Mohsen Mused, owner of TL Market & Deli at Turk and Leavenworth streets, to pay $151,000 in penalties in a suit the City Attorney's Office brought over illegal gambling and sales of drug paraphernalia.

Police raided the store in September 2024 and seized 16 gambling machines, including electronic slot machines, according to the City Attorney's Office. A June narcotics raid found illegal tobacco, prescription drugs and drug paraphernalia. The judgment came Friday, November 6. On Potrero Hill, friends and family gathered Monday night to remember Rolando Jose Dusuau, known as RJ, nearly a month after he was fatally shot.

They described a teenager beyond his years who once wanted to be a paleontologist. In housing, eviction cases at San Francisco Superior Court have surged as the AI boom drives rents higher, and some landlords are using legal loopholes to push out tenants, according to SF Public Press. Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a rental emergency and said more than 1,000 eviction notices have been issued this year. The Rent Board's latest annual report showed nuisance eviction notices up 41 percent in the 12 months through February.

In immigration news, a federal judge ordered the release of Paula Albornoz Hernandez, a 23-year-old UC Berkeley student detained by immigration agents at San Francisco International Airport, according to court records. Her attorney, Nikolas De Bremaeker, told KQED she was to leave a detention facility in California City on Monday after more than a week in custody. Albornoz Hernandez is a Colombian asylum seeker. De Bremaeker said she had fled gender-based violence and was complying with her paperwork and hearings.

In sports, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reinstated 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk on Monday and granted the team a two-game roster exemption. Coach Kyle Shanahan said the reinstatement "means absolutely nothing" at this point. A benefit concert in Vallejo on Sunday raised money for the search for Chantel Brooks, who went missing in July, and her family is preparing a candlelight vigil outside her former workplace in San Francisco. Brooks, 37, was last seen leaving Hotel Le Nain, a supportive housing complex in the Tenderloin where she worked, shortly after midnight on July 17, according to KTVU.

In downtown real estate, a Florida investment firm has bought 40 Jessie St. and is planning a larger portfolio of San Francisco office buildings. The purchases are among the first downtown deals by out-of-state investors as the city's office market shows new signs of activity. In arts and film, the 29th San Francisco Transgender Film Festival opens Thursday at the Roxie Theater with in-person screenings through Saturday and an online program November 16 to 22. It presents six programs of short films.

The lineup includes "Cockroach," starring John Cameron Mitchell, a documentary about the Hustleween fundraiser, and a horror short about a South African transmasculine Uber driver whose car becomes possessed. The San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival also screens this week. In baseball, the Giants are meeting this week with a long shopping list and a brief window to fill it. General manager Zack Minasian said the team is looking for a new hitting coach and redefining roles for its pitching coaches.

In California politics, voters rejected Proposition 40, the 5 percent tax on billionaires' wealth that supporters said would fund healthcare, after opponents spent more than $300 million. The measure would have applied to about 200 people with assets over $1 billion who lived in California as of January 1. Voters also defeated Proposition 41. Preliminary returns showed Proposition 42, which would bar the state from taxing assets such as stocks and bonds, leading.

The Associated Press had not called that race. That's today's brief. Thank you for listening. For the full written brief, go to sfdailybrief.com.