SF News City Audit Finds Poor Coordination, Lack of Oversight Among SF Homeless Outreach Teams San Francisco has not one but 11 homeless outreach teams to provide services for people living on the streets, and a new city audit finds they don’t communicate with one another and often have poor oversight of their contracts and responsibilities.
SF Politics Preston Becomes Latest SF Supervisor to Quit Twitter/X SF Supervisor Dean Preston says he's deleting his Twitter/X account, two weeks after the company's owner, Elon Musk, tweeted that Preston should "go to prison," becoming the latest in a string of city supervisors to leave the platform.
SF Politics Sup. Dean Preston Walks Back Statement That Failed to Condemn Hamas Attack; Democratic Socialists Take It Further While most Democratic leaders in San Francisco have been quick to rally behind Israel and condemn Saturday's deadly terrorist attacks by Hamas militants, one city supervisor stood out among the rest for putting out a statement that seemed to solely express support for Palestinians.
SF Politics Now Elon Musk Says SF Supervisor Dean Preston ‘Should Go To Prison’ Twitter/X owner Elon Musk continues his obsession with District 5 supervisor Dean Preston, on Friday tweeting that “Dean Preston should go to prison,” prompting the tech PAC in line for Musk’s promised $100k donation to defeat Preston to say they’ll refuse the money.
SF News San Francisco May Ban Security Guards From Drawing Guns Over Property Crime Supervisor Dean Preston proposed a new ordinance earlier this year that would bar armed security guards from drawing their weapons in response to a property crime in progress — following the widespread outrage over the April killing of Banko Brown.
SF Politics Elon Musk Claims He’ll Spend $100,000 to Beat Dean Preston In 2024 Election Is it a blessing or a curse when perhaps the most widely loathed and cartoonish CEO in tech vows he’ll spend $100,000 to defeat you in an election? Supervisor Dean Preston will find out, as Elon Musk claimed in a tweet that he’ll pledge a hundred grand to beat the District 5 supervisor.
SF Politics Some Supervisors Vow to Jump In on This U.N. Plaza Farmers’ Market Controversy, Possibly Undoing the Move As the Heart of the City Farmers’ Market is set to be displaced to the next block over this weekend, two supervisors are proposing legislation to relitigate that decision, and maybe move the proposed skate park instead.
SF News Weekend Car-Free Hayes Street Extended, as City Backtracks on Plans To Cancel It The block of Hayes Street between Gough and Octavia Streets will stay car-free on weekends for at least another month, as merchants successfully lobby the city to back off a hastily announced cancellation.
SF News City Hall Acquires Civic Center Parking Lot, Will Make It 196 Affordable Housing Units What’s currently a parking lot at McAllister and Franklin Streets will become 196 units of affordable housing, in a horse-trading deal between developers and city officials that will ultimately create a reported 671 homes.
SF News After Banko Brown Shooting, Supervisor Preston Wants To Ban Retail Security Guards From Using Guns As the controversy rages on over Banko Brown being shot and killed over $14 worth of shoplifted items, Supervisor Dean Preston is drafting legislation to prohibit retail security guards from drawing loaded weapons to protect store inventory.
SF News Long-Stalled 555 Fulton Reportedly Sold To New Owner ‘Enthusiastic’ To Open Trader Joe’s’ The long-delayed Trader Joe’s at 555 Fulton was held up by the Mohammed Nuru scandal and the arrest of a Chinese real estate tycoon, but Supervisor Dean Preston’s office says the building is being sold to “a new owner enthusiastic about bringing in Trader Joe’s.”
SF Politics Supervisors Approve 60-Day Extension of SF Eviction Moratorium The current San Francisco eviction moratorium will now have a 60-day “wind-down period” beyond the end of the local COVID-19 state of emergency, though it’s still unclear when SF’s state of emergency will actually end.
SF News Sup. Preston Pushing to Extend SF Eviction Moratorium Another 60 Days With the end of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency proclamation now in sight, Supervisor Dean Preston is proposing to tack an extra 60 days onto the city’s eviction moratorium that would otherwise end once the emergency proclamation ends.
SF Politics Supervisors Ban Breed’s Undated Resignation Letters for Appointees Mayor London Breed’s practice of demanding secret, undated letters of resignation from her appointees created a three-week mini-scandal this past autumn, and SF supervisors voted Tuesday to ban the practice for good.
SF Politics SF Examiner Apologizes For (Literally) Placing a Bullseye On Dean Preston’s Face in Print Edition In what’s being criticized as a “deeply irresponsible and contemptible” publishing decision, the SF Examiner Wednesday front page depicted Supervisor Dean Preston with a bullseye target over his face, and the paper is now apologizing.
SF News DMV Lot On Fell Street Floated As Affordable Housing Development Site The state's property at the tip of the Panhandle in SF, currently home to the city's busy DMV field office, is a prime development site that's been discussed before — and Supervisor Dean Preston says the state should step up and "partner" with the city to allow it to become affordable housing.
SF Politics Supes Pile On Mayor Breed’s Resignation Letter Scandal in ‘Emergency’ Hearing There was plenty of insider tea spilled about how Mayor Breed allegedly muscled city commissioners in an “emergency” hearing Tuesday that made more political hay over Breed’s undated resignation letters scandal.
Arts & Entertainment Club Deluxe Is Staying Open After All, and Will Remain at Its Same Haight Street Location A “marathon mediation at City Hall” Monday resulted in a deal where Haight Street swing music nightclub Club Deluxe will indeed stay open and in business, at the same Haight and Ashbury Street location where it’s operated for 33 years.
SF News Sup. Dean Preston Wages Fight Over HUD-Related Evictions of Longtime Tenants at Western Addition Complex The bureaucracy of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the likely profit motives of one management company are once again running head-first into San Francisco politics and this city's chronic housing shortage.
SF News Sup. Preston Seeks To Close Rent-Control Loophole That’s Leading to 182% Rent Increases An affordable housing nonprofit ironically called HumanGood has announced 182% rent increases for some tenants thanks to a HUD loophole, but Supervisor Dean Preston has introduced an ordinance to prevent this.
SF Politics An ‘Empty Homes Tax’ Could Be Coming to Your November Ballot Amidst a recent uproar that nearly 10% of San Francisco housing stock is just sitting vacant, supervisors Dean Preston kicked off a campaign to get a vacancy tax on this November’s ballot.
SF News Preston Calls to Halt Japantown Hotel Conversion to Homeless Housing, Proposes Other Hotel Sites Many Japantown residents want no part of seeing a luxury hotel there converted to supportive housing. Their supervisor Dean Preston takes up their cause, earning him grief from across the housing discourse spectrum.
SF Politics Breed Says She'll Veto Free Muni In a rare use of the mayoral veto, Mayor London Breed said late Tuesday that she would not sign off on Supervisor Dean Preston's pilot project to offer free Muni rides for three months.
SF Politics Free Muni Might Happen Under a Three-Month Pilot, But Maybe Not As Soon as Supervisors Want There's been an argument in recent months over whether or not to use this limbo moment as the pandemic fades to finally offer Muni rides for free. But can the system handle a sudden surge in ridership (if that actually happens)?
SF Politics SF Sup. Dean Preston Doesn't Understand April Fool's, Tweets 'Joke' About Muni Going Fare-Free The worst day of the year on the internet is here, and some people are still acting like it's 2002 and fake news headlines are fun April Fool's jokes. One of them is San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston.
