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Toxic Housing and Asthma Plague the Mission
On a bright Saturday afternoon in a park on 23rd street, four-year-old Arianna runs through the playground laughing with her dad. Then she slows down, and you can hear a soft wheezing when she breaths....
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Build a Block
A coffee shop, a wine bar, and a home décor space featuring salvage yard treasures — all are coming to town. Yep, as the song goes, it’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. Jonathan Siegel, owner...
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A Family Home In An SRO
En Español Elmer, an eight-month old who likes to show off his brand new teeth with a smile, has spent all but one month of his life living in an 8-by-10 square-foot room that he shares with his...
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311 for SROs Gets a Push
Amos Howard moved into the Mission Hotel, one of the 50 single room occupancy hotels in the Mission District, three months ago to find out he would be sharing a room with bedbugs. He’s not alone — 73.4...
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Mission Fire Tenants: There Were No Smoke Alarms
Disclosure: Mission Local was a commercial tenant for a year and half at the building discussed in this article. For many of the 65 residents who escaped the four-alarm fire that ripped through their...
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Holes in Security at Fire-torn Building
Tenants from the building that caught fire last week have told Mission Local that despite promises from city officials, the building is not secure from potential thieves. While many of the building’s...
View ArticleHearing Demands: How Can We Prevent these Fires?
Lawmakers, officials and members of the public called for changes Thursday to make buildings safer and fire inspections more meaningful. Supervisor David Campos arranged for the City Hall hearing with...
View ArticleListen Local: Inside the Planning Commission
Listen Local is Mission Local in audio form. We record live on a biweekly webcast at BFF.fm every other Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m. First on the agenda this week’s episode is an excerpt from a...
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Demolition at Mission and 22nd Causes Damage Next Door
Demolition of the fire-damaged building at Mission and 22nd streets has caused some damage to the foundation of 131-year-old building next door on 22nd Street that houses several businesses and...
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City Orders Demolitions, Investigates Causes After Mission St. Fire
San Francisco officials issued emergency orders to demolish two buildings, the former homes of Cole Hardware and Playa Azul restaurant as well as an estimated four residential units, following a...
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Displaced Residents Return to Homes Struck by Fire
Leaning against the doorway of his charred building on Monday, 15-year-old Diego Vasquez said he is coming to terms with the fact that “everything my father has worked for” is lost. “I don’t show my...
View ArticleHousing Startup Managed SRO Damaged in Fire
Up until the five-alarm fire damaged the Graywood single room occupancy hotel and left 58 tenants without a place to live, the SRO was managed by a housing startup that matches roommates and manages...
View ArticleBuilding Inspection Study: Majority of Housing Code Violations Abated
The San Francisco Department of Building Inspections released a report today showing that the majority of housing code violations reported in the Mission District between 2014 and 2015 were corrected....
View ArticleCivil Grand Jury Report: Fire Safety Inspections Fall Short
San Francisco’s Civil Grand Jury, a volunteer citizen oversight body, issued a report Thursday that found the Department of Building Inspections and Fire Department sometimes take too long to correct...
View ArticleDepartments, Community Advocates Talk Fire Safety
In a small meeting among city agency directors and Mission neighborhood community leaders, department heads expressed hope for improving fire prevention and post-fire city response with the aid of...
View ArticleArtists Respond to Fire Safety Crackdown By Calling on the Fire Department
In the wake of the tragic fire in Oakland that claimed 36 lives and the city crackdowns that resulted, the founder of a Mission District arts space will bring together firefighters with managers of...
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