Bitcoin Investor Buys SRO in SF Mission
After years of building a quirky community, bitcoin investor Jered Kenna last month purchased the building at the corner of Mission and 20th streets that houses art and technology creators. With the...
View ArticleMission Hotel’s Mail Troubles Prompt City, Advocates to Take Action
Tenants passing through the Mission Hotel lobby did a double take when they saw Postal Carrier Barbara Ornelas filling the postal boxes. “Is that the mail lady?” One resident asked as he shuffled...
View ArticleCity’s Housing Offers Not Cutting It for Homeless Fire Victim
A former go-go dancer and taxicab robber who had hoped to start life afresh at the Graywood Hotel is the last tenant displaced by the June fire who remains on the streets. Michelle Thompson’s story...
View ArticleUncertainty Lingers for Mission Fire Victims as City Aid Runs Out
Tenants displaced by two major Mission fires gathered at the Brava Theater on Saturday for a holiday dinner, sponsored by community donations, and to discuss new housing solutions. Many of the...
View ArticleFire-Torn SRO Gutted and Up for Sale, 3300 Club Ousted
The owner of the Graywood Hotel, a single-room occupancy hotel damaged by a June 2016 blaze that displaced more than 50 people, has put the building up for sale amidst extensive renovations. The...
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After an 8 Hour Stand-Off at a Valencia Street Hotel, Police Arrest a Woman...
10 p.m. Police confirmed that at 9:05 p.m. the stand off at the Crown Hotel “ended up very well.” The officer said that at 9:05 p.m. the suspect walked out into the hallway and was taken into custody...
View ArticleOvernight fire at SRO displaces two
Firefighters contained a one-alarm blaze at the Mission Hotel on 16th Street and South Van Ness Avenue around 2 a.m. Monday morning. The fire displaced two people, who are being helped by the Red...
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Early morning fire displaces four from Mission District SRO
Firefighters responded to a one-alarm fire at 5:22 a.m. Monday morning inside a low-income SRO hotel on Mission Street between 16th and 17th streets. No injuries were reported, but four people were...
View ArticleMan critically injured, another arrested in hotel stabbing
A 54-year-old man is in critical condition following a stabbing inside a residential hotel near 16th and Folsom streets on Wednesday. According to police reports, an argument between the victim and the...
View ArticleSF Mission residential hotels renovated for wealthier tenants
Maybe it’s the fresh blue paint that makes 2072 Mission stand out from its less-kept-up neighbors on the busy block between 16th and 17th streets. Or maybe it’s the gallery space at ground level that,...
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SF Mission community weighs in on ambitious homeless reduction plan
Officials from the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive housing on Thursday laid out their ambitious five-year homelessness reduction strategy for a group of community members at...
View ArticleSF’s SRO tenants anxious for better housing, will wait years
Residents of the Mission’s SROs are often dismissed by the neighborhood as a nuisance, and many would agree they are treated that way — “like fourth-class people,” in the words of one resident. But...
View ArticleSF cops infiltrate Mission Hotel, enjoy coffee and donuts with SRO residents
When Wayne H. returned to his residence at the Mission Hotel Wednesday afternoon, he noticed about 15 cops gathered in the lobby. “Did someone get busted?” he wondered. “Is someone going to jail?” No,...
View ArticleMission Station cops, SRO residents, meet again for coffee and donuts
On Wednesday afternoon, several Mission Station police officers rolled into the Mission Hotel on South Van Ness Avenue. There were no calls regarding a complaint or disturbance. Quite the opposite: the...
View ArticleSqualor continues at ‘The Pit,’ the residential hotel where Paul Pelosi,...
On the second floor of the Department of Building Inspection is a nondescript, stone-floored room with a dry-erase board and a handful of plastic chairs facing a desk. It’s the sort of place that would...
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No path out of homelessness for families living in residential hotels,...
Families living in overcrowded and even dangerous Single Room Occupancy hotels (SROs) are no longer considered a priority in the city’s new coordinated entry system for tracking homeless residents,...
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Will these 25 newly renovated SRO rooms be low-income housing — or tech dorms?
Brand-new individual bathrooms with showers. Newly painted walls. Crown molding. By all appearances, the 25 rooms at 3061 16th St., a 103-year-old single-room occupancy (SRO) hotel that long housed the...
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Gutted 3300 Club building up for sale, as developer ditches plans
The fire-ravaged former home of the 3300 Club bar and a 28-unit residential hotel is back on the market for $3.15 million, according to Erik Murray, the managing partner of a real estate company that...
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Twenty-three beds for ‘justice-involved’ youth slated for Norma Hotel at 23rd...
San Francisco has 23 more places lined up for “justice-involved” transitional aged youth to sleep and regain their footing — at the Norma Hotel, an SRO at the corner of 23rd and Mission. Read More
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The next COVID-19 outbreak could already be happening
Advocates say COVID-positive SRO-dwellers are systematically denied quarantine hotel rooms and sent back to overcrowded residential hotels to sicken others In the wake of 24 staffers and formerly...
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Two Fire Victims End Months of Homelessness, But a Third Remains Unhoused
Since a five-alarm fire in June displaced Kimberly Walley and her husband, Henry Texada, from the single room occupancy hotel where they had been living for some five years, the couple had fallen on...
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Market-rate studios to replace Valencia street’s Phoenix Irish Bar
The Phoenix Irish Bar’s days might be numbered — and it is potentially being replaced with 20 market-rate studios being labeled as “SROs.” It’s a trend that people like Sam Moss, of the Mission...
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Pop-up testing site on 16th Street offers free Covid-19 tests and flu shots
As flu season begins, community groups and Walgreens will launch a new temporary healthcare site at the 16th Street and Mission BART Plaza where people can get free covid-19 testing and flu vaccines...
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Updated: 16th Street BART becomes one-stop-shop for free covid tests and flu...
Clad in vibrant orange and face-shields, Unidos En Salud volunteers scampered alongside BART commuters as they exited the 16th Street Mission BART Plaza, asking if they want a free covid-19 test and...
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Woman Found Dead at SF Hotel from Apparent Overdose
A young woman was found dead from an apparent drug overdose early Sunday morning at the a single room occupancy hotel at Utah and 24th streets. She has been identified […] Woman Found Dead at SF Hotel...
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New study shows ‘isolation and quarantine hotels’ helped free up hospital...
Only 4 percent needed further investigation for potential hospitalization, when their disease appeared to get worse. New study shows ‘isolation and quarantine hotels’ helped free up hospital space,...
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Cooking at an SRO and creating the Pandemic Pedestrian Patrol
How do you eat when the pandemic closed a lot of your favorite cheap eats? If you are on a fixed income and live in a single room occupancy hotel? If […] Cooking at an SRO and creating the Pandemic...
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Activists seize City Hall elevators, demand SRO elevator repairs
“Sorry, can’t ride the elevator.” These words echoed through City Hall Wednesday afternoon as 14 disability activists blocked politicians and staffers from entering three of the building’s elevators...
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In jailhouse interview, stabbing suspect claims self-defense
Thomas Baxter, the 70-year-old charged with attempted murder in a stabbing on Sunday night, said today from the San Francisco County Jail that it was unbelievable that he was arrested […] In jailhouse...
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After 3 months with no elevator, SRO tenants must keep waiting
"They’d rather put a band-aid on it instead of correcting it,” the tenant with arthritis said. After 3 months with no elevator, SRO tenants must keep waiting
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Disrepair programs to be cut in proposed SF budget
“When there’s something wrong with our building, they’ve improved it,” Jose Marquez said in Spanish. “We need it.” Disrepair programs to be cut in proposed SF budget
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