SF Politics SF Supervisors Vote to Pay Up to 65% of Unpaid Back Rent to Landlords Back rent is piling up under the eviction moratorium, so the Board voted Tuesday that the city would pay between 50-65% of it for qualifying tenants and landlords.
SF News SF Leases 300 Hotel Rooms to House COVID-19 Patients and 'Vulnerable Populations' On the heels of District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston putting $10K of his own money toward a private fund that will help house unsheltered San Franciscans at the Oasis Inn during the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of SF announced yesterday they’ve now secured leases for around 300 hotel rooms.
SF News Supervisor Preston Secures Private Funds for Hotel to House Homeless Dean Preston puts up $10,000 of his own money into a private fund that will keep at least 30 unsheltered people put up safely to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic at the Oasis Inn.
SF Politics Dean Preston Sworn in as Supervisor By a Blue-Haired Tom Ammiano Preston takes the helm as District 5 supervisor just in time for today’s full Board meeting, but faces re-election again in just ten months.
SF Politics Democratic Socialist Dean Preston Wins District 5 Supervisor Seat On Second Try After narrowly losing to London Breed in 2016, Dean Preston eked out a win in the District 5 supervisor race on Saturday, taking the seat from Vallie Brown, the mayor's appointee.
SF News [Update] Election Results: With Final Mail-In And Provisional Ballots Counted, Preston (Unofficially) Bests Brown With all 474 precincts reporting and most ballots counted, the District Attorney's race is all but settled with Boudin beating Loftus's 31.13 percent with 35.56 percent of the vote – and Dean Preston now appears to have won his District 5 seat on the Board of Supervisors, as well.
SF News District 5 Race Capturing Little Attention, But Has Huge Implications Challenger Dean Preston came within 1,800 votes of beating then-Supervisor London Breed in 2016. His performance in November against Breed’s hand-picked successor will show whether she still has sway in the district.
