Supervisor Dean Preston announced a deal today for the city to acquire 600 McAllister Street to create up to 196 units of permanently affordable housing. The deal is part of a package to unstick the development at 98 Franklin Street, a proposed residential housing project that would sit atop a new high school, which was approved today at the Land Use and Transportation Committee.

Supervisor Dean Preston, Fillmore Community leaders, and the Office of Economic Workforce Development (OEWD) announced a new grant program today to support Fillmore entrepreneurs. The Fillmore Pitch Program will allow entrepreneurs to pitch their business concept, product, or service before a panel of small business peers, community leaders, and business advisors. Winners will receive $4,500 grants. The program is expected to fund over 32 entrepreneurs in the Fillmore.

After more than a year of advocacy, demands, protests, City Hall legislation, letters, and finally, a nonprofit benefactor, the stars have aligned for the Oasis Inn: St. Anthony’s Foundation announced today that it will purchase the 58-unit hotel, once slated for sale on the private market, to become a permanent family shelter.

With more than $124m in pending applications, and $63.2m in current program funding, housing advocates blasted a proposal to slash $20m from one of the city’s most effective anti-displacement tools, the Small Sites acquisition program.

Last year, the Board of Supervisors and Mayor London Breed agreed to a groundbreaking spending package for affordable housing, predicated on the hundreds of millions raised by Supervisor Preston’s Prop I ballot measure, including $40 million to acquire land for development of 100% affordable housing. Today, the city is announcing five sites it plans to acquire for an estimated 550 units of affordable housing, including an auto-repair shop at 650 Divisadero Street in Preston’s district.

One of the city’s most effective anti-displacement tools, the Small Sites acquisition program, is facing a $20 million cut in Mayor London Breed’s proposed budget, according to a report released Monday by the city’s Controller.

On the eve of his 70th birthday, Tenderloin resident Cedric Dugger received what every renter in San Francisco fears – a notice of eviction. But after receiving free legal representation through the city’s tenant Right to Counsel program, organizing with the Veritas Tenants Association, and resolving his pandemic-related back rent through the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, advocates announced today that Cedric will stay in his home of more than 14 years.

As the city and the country grapple with the ongoing instability and collapse of the banking industry, the San Francisco Reinvestment Working Group advances a plan to create a municipality-owned bank. The Public Bank proposal offers a game-changing tool as the city navigates ongoing concerns with the post-pandemic economic recovery.

Nearly one year after the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Breed agreed on an historic investment package for affordable housing, one of the most critical pieces – $20 million for life-safety repairs in public housing – remains unspent, with no timeframe for the funds to be spent, the Mayor’s office revealed at a Budget and Finance hearing today.

Nearly one year after the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Breed agreed on an historic investment package for affordable housing, one of the most critical pieces – $20 million for life-safety repairs in public housing – remains unspent, with no timeframe for the funds to be spent, the Mayor’s office revealed at a Budget and Finance hearing today.

Following the tragic murder of Banko Brown and subsequent protests over a lack of transparency by the District Attorney’s Office, Supervisor Dean Preston today will announce legislation to limit private security guards’ use of guns. The legislation will amend the Police Code to clarify that guards are not to unholster their weapons unless there is an actual and specific threat to a person.

Highlighting one of the most diverse and vibrant communities in the heart of San Francisco, neighborhood leaders this year are piloting “I Love Tenderloin Week,” seven days and nights of cultural events and activities to celebrate the city’s most diverse neighborhood. Following a unanimous vote on Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors, San Francisco is now officially designating April 30 through May 6, 2023 to be “I Love Tenderloin Week.”

Today San Francisco unanimously passed legislation calling on California to declare May 8 to May 13, 2023 Stuttering Awareness Week, as the California legislature considers Assembly Resolution 59, a bill that would make California the first state in the nation to designate the second week of May for those who stutter.

Scaling up land acquisition, building new affordable housing for essential workers, and repairing existing affordable housing are among the recommendations issued on Monday from the Housing Stability Oversight Board, the city body that gives guidance on how to use tax proceeds from November 2020’s Prop I ballot measure.

Earlier today, Supervisor Preston introduced a Resolution at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors calling on Governor Newsom and the state legislature to provide much-needed transportation funding to the Bay Area’s struggling public transportation systems. The introduction of the Resolution comes ahead of the Governor’s May revision to his January budget which included a $2 billion cut to public transit funding and no operations funding to address the fiscal cliff facing transit agencies.

In a breakthrough in the effort to get a neighborhood-serving grocery store at 555 Fulton Street in Hayes Valley, current owner Z&L Properties announced today that they are in contract to sell the property to a new buyer, who is reportedly eager to prepare the space for Trader Joe’s.

A bombshell audit of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) published today reveals noncompliant reporting practices, “untraceable” decision-making processes, and a five-year average ending balance of $482 million – with Department staff f or the city’s lead Affordable Housing agency refusing to disclose how much of that balance is committed, and how much is unallocated and available for additional affordable housing investments.

Earlier today, the Board of Supervisors unanimously passed Supervisor Preston’s resolution calling on AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon to expand digital access for low-income residents, especially for older adults and persons with disabilities. The resolution helped uplift the demands of Senior and Di sability Action’s Free Wifi campaign calling for the city and big internet services providers to address the 1 in 8 residents that are without high-speed home Internet service.

The Oasis Inn, San Francisco’s only emergency drop-in family shelter, will once again house San Francisco’s most vulnerable families starting tomorrow, following a several month long campaign to get the shelter to reopen its doors.

As the Board of Supervisors prepared to vote on a significant mid-year increase to the San Francisco Police Department’s (SFPD) budget, Supervisor Dean Preston, Chair of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee, announced an audit of the department’s usage and internal controls on overtime. Preston’s call for an audit comes on the heels of a new report, released yesterday, by the Board’s Budget and Legislative Analyst (BLA), which offers new and alarming insight into blatant overspending by the department.