• An alleged vandal with some scary face tattoos wreaked some havoc at a tony salon in Jackson Square Thursday morning. [Hoodline]
  • Previously committed Transbay residential developer Crescent Heights has backed out of a $165 million deal to purchase development Parcel F in the Transbay District, the last unclaimed parcel in the area, after figuring out that the 35-percent affordable units they had to build could not be built off-site. This now puts the Transit Center's completion in jeopardy too, because of the necessity of these funds. [Chron]
  • There were two separate stabbings early Thursday/ late Wednesday night in the Mission. [Chron]
  • Here's a further story of an affordable housing buyer at 35 Dolores, who was mentioned in our earlier piece about the issue, who hasn’t been able to move into her home yet (while market rate buyers at that property have). [Mission Local]
  • There's more bad news for California coast sea lions: Sea lion and fur seal pups are weighing 31 percent below their average body weight, which likely means many more deaths and strandings this winter. [Chron]
  • Accused Oakland school shooter One Goh says sad, clearly mentally ill things during competency hearing. The hearing concludes next week. [CBS 5]
  • No-money-down mortgages, one of the factors in the big crash of 2009, are back in the Bay Area. [Chron]
  • The Planning Commission ruled that city officials must weigh in on the removal of any residential unit — including previously illegal in-law units — from San Francisco’s limited housing stock. [Examiner]