Day Around The Bay: San Francisco's Shrinking Middle Class: SFist

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Uber may use a legal loophole to duck ADA requirements for its driverless cars. [Wired]
A self-advertised hacker hostel wants the Planning Department to know that is it not, in fact, a hacker hostel. [SocketSite]
Supervisor Norman Yee is proposing a non-binding resolution that would require the SFPD Chief to live in San Francisco. The current acting chief, Toney Chaplin, lives outside of the city. [Examiner] [CBS 5]
The New York Times's longtime tech reporter, John Markoff, took a buyout and is retiring to Berkeley. [BackChannel]
Artists around the Bay are fearing a crackdown on their working and living spaces following the Ghost Ship fire. [KRON4] [KRON4] [NYTimes] [Chronicle] [CBS 5] [CBS 5] [SFist]
In addition to the larger relief funds set up by Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and The Oakland A's, individual GoFundMe campaigns have been created for some of the victims. [KRON4]
A local map maker put together some visuals regarding the shrinking of San Francisco's middle class neighborhoods. [Nick Conway]
The firm of prominent civil rights lawyer John Burris has reportedly expressed interest in representing the families of the Ghost Ship fire victims. [Sam Lefebvre]
A survivor of the Pulse nightclub massacre, Angel Colon, visited the site of the Ghost Ship fire to pay his respects. [ABC 7]
Several artists have come forward to say that they offered to help make the Ghost Ship warehouse safer, but that their efforts were rebuffed. [Billboard]
Investigators are building a 3D model of the interior of the Ghost Ship to help them with the investigation. [KRON4]

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