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Mayor Daniel Lurie today will award $29.5 million in funding to create 125 beds within 59 units reserved for individuals...
09/23/2025

Mayor Daniel Lurie today will award $29.5 million in funding to create 125 beds within 59 units reserved for individuals and families escaping domestic violence, s*xual assault and human trafficking. ⁠
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The 125 beds will be split between two projects — one in the Mission District at 80 Julian Ave. and the other in Hayes Valley at 101 Gough St. Construction is anticipated to start in spring 2026 and end by late 2027.
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The 101 Gough St. project, was proposed by San Francisco Safehouse, a nonprofit organization providing transitional housing and support services for women who are experiencing homelessness. ⁠
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The 80 Julian Ave. project will be part of a new six-story building operated by the Friendship House Association of American Indians.

Phil Ginsburg, the general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department for the past 16 years, will leav...
09/22/2025

Phil Ginsburg, the general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department for the past 16 years, will leave his position by year’s end, the department announced on Monday. ⁠
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The director has faced controversy in recent months for his connection with the imploding nonprofit the Parks Alliance, which collapsed after misspending at least $3.8 million. Ginsburg knew about financial troubles at the nonprofit as far back as June 2024, but failed to disclose that to fellow city officials or organizations that relied on Parks Alliance funding for the better part of a year. ⁠
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Sarah Madland will serve as the interim director after Ginsburg’s departure. Ginsburg did not return a message from Mission Local.

Hispanic Heritage Months started on Sept. 15 and ends on Oct. 15. Already, much has happened, so as not to miss more, Mi...
09/22/2025

Hispanic Heritage Months started on Sept. 15 and ends on Oct. 15. Already, much has happened, so as not to miss more, Mission Local put together a calendar of events. ⁠
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“This month is a reminder that celebrating our heritage is also an act of resilience and resistance,” said San Francisco’s Assessor Recorder, Joaquin Torres. ⁠
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​​”Hosting our Latino Heritage Month events is a vital tradition that celebrates and uplifts the countless contributions of our community to this city,” said Susana Rojas, a nonprofit representing Latino Cultural District.

Mission Local readers first met Rachel Church in 2019. It was a redemptive tale of a woman who had spiraled into the dar...
09/22/2025

Mission Local readers first met Rachel Church in 2019. It was a redemptive tale of a woman who had spiraled into the darkest corners hidden in plain sight in San Francisco. ⁠
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An underaged s*x worker walking the streets at 14. An alcoholic paying for three-dollar bottles of vodka with small change. A he**in addict. A barefoot homeless woman washing her hair in the gutter. ⁠
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A few years later, Church attended college and earned a degree. She is living on her own with her grade school-aged daughter. Church is eight years sober, has positive people in her life and, notably, she’s back in the workforce. ⁠
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Church does not dwell in the Mission anymore, physically or metaphysically. Rather, she rapidly motors past the landmarks of her past on her trusty ebike, resembling any other San Francisco parent squiring around a busy child.

More than 300 people marched in a Filipino-led protest on Friday denouncing immigration crackdowns against migrants, inc...
09/22/2025

More than 300 people marched in a Filipino-led protest on Friday denouncing immigration crackdowns against migrants, including Filipino migrants held in Immigration and Customs enforcement custody. ⁠
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“We’re here today to denounce all the attacks on migrants rights, all the attacks on Filipino activists by the Marcos-U.S. dictatorship,” said activist Brandon Lee. ⁠
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In 2024, 82 Filipinos went through immigration court in San Francisco, down from a high of 531 in 1998, according to TRAC. Across California, migrants from the Philippines are the ninth most populous in ICE proceedings, behind Colombia and ahead of Armenia. ⁠
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The consulate did not immediately provide a request for comment but in July said in a statement that allegations of the government neglecting Filipinos in ICE custody were inaccurate.

The Colombian asylum-seeker spoke to Judge Joseph Y. Park in Spanish through an interpreter: “I have a tumor that is 10 ...
09/20/2025

The Colombian asylum-seeker spoke to Judge Joseph Y. Park in Spanish through an interpreter: “I have a tumor that is 10 inches by 12 inches on my chest,” he said in San Francisco’s immigration court today. ⁠
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“I need to stay here to continue my treatment,” he pleaded.
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attorney moved to dismiss his case, indicating that ICE would likely arrest him immediately upon exiting the courtroom. ⁠
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At the end of the hearing, the pro-bono “attorney of the day” spoke to the Colombian man as everyone else exited. The two later walked down the hallway to the elevator, seemingly free, without ICE accompaniment. ⁠
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He was, for now, one of the lucky ones.

At approximately 11:10 a.m. on Sept. 4, three people called 911 to report a man walking down the middle of Highway 101 i...
09/19/2025

At approximately 11:10 a.m. on Sept. 4, three people called 911 to report a man walking down the middle of Highway 101 in San Francisco. ⁠
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Minutes later, 40-year-old Juan Antonio Serrato lay near death, shot in the chest at close range by San Francisco police officer Michael Scott after Serrato made stabbing motions in the air with scissors. ⁠
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Not only could less-lethal tools have minimized the harm to Serrato, said a police source, they also could have lowered the risk of someone else being injured. ⁠
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Brian Cox, who leads police accountability work for the San Francisco public defender’s office, believes the SFPD officers violated departmental policy and did not follow their training in shooting Serrato. But, he adds, it’s unlikely they will be penalized for it.

More than a decade ago, San Francisco adopted Vision Zero, a plan to reduce traffic deaths to zero by the year 2024 — ye...
09/19/2025

More than a decade ago, San Francisco adopted Vision Zero, a plan to reduce traffic deaths to zero by the year 2024 — yet that year, 49 people died in traffic collisions. ⁠
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On Thursday, the San Francisco Government Audit and Oversight Committee unanimously voted in support of a resolution urging the current mayor, Daniel Lurie, to move forward with Vision Zero for real this time. ⁠
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The resolution is based on the report “Failed Vision: Revamping the Roadmap to Safer Streets,” released in June 2025, which lays out the failures of Vision Zero so far, and urges three departments to adopt a range of policies. ⁠
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These include increasing traffic enforcement, updating existing traffic-enforcement technology, developing a standard set of guidelines for making streets safer, and working with the Board of Supervisors.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and local groups are suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for arres...
09/19/2025

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and local groups are suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for arresting asylum-seekers outside immigration courts across Northern California, and keeping them in “punitive and inhumane” conditions. ⁠
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The class-action suit, filed Sept. 18 in the Northern District of California, alleges harsh conditions for immigrants held at 630 Sansome St. ⁠
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Asylum-seekers have been held there for “sometimes up to six days” in “small, cold rooms, sometimes with hardly enough space to sit, let alone sleep,” the suit alleges. ⁠
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The ACLU’s suit, which was filed alongside the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco and CARECEN, is on behalf of three plaintiffs: Carmen Aracely Pablo Sequen, Martin Hernandez-Torres, and Ligia Garcia.

Lucky, a major national grocery store chain with one of the few grocery stores in Bayview, will close its doors there af...
09/19/2025

Lucky, a major national grocery store chain with one of the few grocery stores in Bayview, will close its doors there after just three years in the neighborhood. ⁠
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Now, just two major grocery stores, Foods Co. and Grocery Outlet, are left in Bayview. Both are over a mile away from the shuttered Lucky. ⁠
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The loss of Lucky “is another major blow to the Bayview community, which has long faced challenges of being a food desert,” said District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton. Walton added that his office will work with the Office of Economic and Workforce Development to bring “essential” grocery and pharmacy services back to the area. ⁠
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It is unclear why Lucky is closing. It did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

ICE arrested seven individuals at San Francisco’s immigration court on Thursday at 630 Sansome St. At least two arrestee...
09/19/2025

ICE arrested seven individuals at San Francisco’s immigration court on Thursday at 630 Sansome St. At least two arrestees — a Colombian man and Mexican woman — were not able to meet with an attorney in the courtroom before they were detained. ⁠
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The Colombian man had been dropped off by a friend who was just outside. Upon exiting the courtroom, he was handcuffed and detained by four ICE agents. ⁠
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The Mexican woman, 32, explained that she also had a cousin waiting for her. She suffers from high blood pressure, she said, and had medication with her inside a backpack. Two ICE agents took her by the arms and walked her to the sixth floor for processing.

These days, every billboard and bus shelter in San Francisco seems to be advertising some kind of indecipherable AI star...
09/18/2025

These days, every billboard and bus shelter in San Francisco seems to be advertising some kind of indecipherable AI startup. One of them is 34-year-old Nikunj Kothari. ⁠
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Kothari’s marketing deal: He wears a T-shirt or hat from different startups and walks the city. ⁠
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Kothari, a venture capitalist whose company, FPV Ventures, invests in early-stage startups and manages nearly $1 billion, says he has received 305 requests from 202 companies. They include pre-seed startups, startups in India (where Kothari is from) and public companies like Figma (valued at more than $20 billion). ⁠
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“This is the beauty about San Francisco. People are very open to just trying things,” said Kothari.

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