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4 days ago · Homeless families housed in shelters across the city and facing evictions on Feb. 8 or 10 will be granted a 30-day reprieve, city officials said. The decision, made by the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, followed a letter personally delivered to the mayor’s office on Jan. 21 by ...

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3 days ago · Since it opened four months ago, Murales, at 18th and Mission streets, has operated as a wine and tapas bar. Starting this weekend, it will be open for brunch. The tapas menu will expand on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to serve chilaquiles, tamales, molletes and pan dulce. And, on ...

Jan 8, 2025 · Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect corrections and additional reporting. The 47-year-old Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts has laid off the majority of its staff and will reduce its hours by 40 percent, according to the center’s executive director Martina Ayala. It’s a blow for one of the Mission’s oldest cultural institutions.

Jan 14, 2025 · Sean Elsbernd has been Mayor Breed’s chief of staff since she took office in July 2018. He started his City Hall career in 2001 as the legislative aide for former District 7 Supervisor Tony Hall. When former Mayor Gavin Newsom was elected, Elsbernd was picked as his initial liaison to the Board of Supervisors.

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Dec 31, 2024 · Election 2024: See results across San Francisco, Nov. 5, by Kelly Waldron; Sandy Tong: S.F.’s first Asian fire chief — and first without firefighting background, Sept. 3, by Yujie Zhou and Joe Eskenazi; Homeless people often chose the street over a bed, Sept. 18, by Abigail Vân Neely; Auto Towing owners accused of buying Lamborghini while on welfare, Feb. 6, by Joe Eskenazi and Gilare Zada

Mission Local produces enterprise reporting on San Francisco's most critical issues: police reform, corruption, public health, housing and homelessness.

Dec 7, 2024 · The building at 320 14th St. went into default late 2022 and fell into the hands of the Prado Group, a private real-estate company, in November 2023. Prado addressed some of the urgent maintenance issues, and then sought to sell it to the San Francisco Community Land Trust and Smeallie said the deal closed last week without using any city money.