SF News Mission To Lose 8,000 Latino Residents By 2025, Report Warns If trends as we know them continue, the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office predicts that, as a proportion of the Mission District, the percentage of Latinos will decline from 48 percent in
Arts & Entertainment Video: South Park Gleefully Mocks Gentrification Via 'The Lofts At SoDoSoPa' Be it EaDo in Houston, NuLu in Louisville, DUMBO in Brooklyn, DTLA, or our very own NoPa and SoMa, rapidly gentrifying, expensive loft-filled neighborhoods nationwide are one and the same in many ways,
SF News Will Uber Be Oakland's Savior, Or Just Become Occupy's Next Target? Reactions have been across the map to yesterday's big news that Uber had snagged the huge former Sears building in downtown Oakland for what will be a new East Bay sister-headquarters come 2017.
SF News Do More Tech Shuttle Stops Lead Directly To Higher Rents And More Evictions? Tensions over tech shuttles live on, surprisingly or unsurprisingly depending on where you stand on the "San Francisco has been destroyed" vs. "all change is good change" spectrum. And now anti-shuttle and anti-eviction
SF News Oaklander Rails Against Gentrification, Tells Newcomers To Stop Moving There A short screed on Craigslist is making the rounds [Ed. Note: The post was removed, but it's screencapped below], posted in the Rooms & Shares section for Oakland, titled "STOP MOVING TO OAKLAND.
SF News Super High-End Sports Car Showroom Attempts To Move Onto Valencia Two years after formula-retail protestors drove off a proposed Jack Spade store in the Mission's former Adobe Books space, another luxury goods dealer has applied for space in another former arts hub. This
Arts & Entertainment Local Singer Sony Holland Sings About Gentrification In 'Hasn't Been The Same Around Here' Much like local musician Kelly Niland did earlier this year with the LCD Soundsystem riff "Mission I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down," local singer Sony Holland brings us this rockabilly-ish original
SF News Separate Tech Shuttle And Black Lives Matter Protests Planned For Oakland On May Day The Google bus blockades are not over! Separate protest events will be happening on Friday May 1 in two different parts of Oakland, in recognition of International Workers' Day, a.k.a. May
SF News [Update] Chinatown SRO Owner Withdraws Eviction Notices Of 24 Families Yesterday afternoon, Chinese-speaking SRO residents gathered in protest, hanging copies of eviction notices that many have been served since October. The Chronicle reports that at the site of the protest, 2 Emery Lane,
SF News Here's Why Everyone Needs To Stop Bemoaning A Vanishing San Francisco And Move On When you first fall in love with someone, during that first dizzying, marvelous honeymoon phase, however long it lasts, you and your new love feel like you're always on the same page. You
Arts & Entertainment Valencia's Clothes Contact Readies For Closure, Starts Half-Off Clearance Sale Many Burners' favorite Mission thrift spot Clothes Contact, which has been selling by-the-pound (sometimes musty) used clothing at Valencia and 16th since the wild days of 1986, is getting ready to close as
SF News David Campos Seeks To Possibly Stop Market-Rate Housing Around 24th Street BART One controversial news item this week is talk by Supervisor David Campos of a moratorium on any more new market-rate housing in the quickly gentrifying Mission district something that a lot of people
Arts & Entertainment Now They've Even Gentrified The Porn Shop At 16th And Mission You may have noticed that the seedy little adult bookstore / video porn arcade at 16th and Mission has been cleaned up recently, remodeled and rendered more yuppie-friendly. The former Mission News is now
Arts & Entertainment Salon Founder Goes Off About Bernal Gentrifiers, 'Stanford Douchebags', And The Destruction Of SF In a new, rather angry op-ed published on 48 Hills, which is actually a speech that Salon founder David Talbot recently delivered at Stanford, Talbot has no shortage of bad things to say
SF News SF Native Who Fought For Soccer Field Takes Us On A Gentrification Tour Of The Mission We already knew from his speech-making in the now infamous Mission Playground soccer field incident that Kai, the college student and Mission native who's preferred not to give his last name in the
SF News Grab The Popcorn: Eviction Protesters March On Ed Lee's House In a seriously ballsy move, affordable housing advocates flat-out stormed the front of Mayor Ed Lee’s house Saturday afternoon. Roughly 50 demonstrators gathered at a BART station and then marched to Mayor
SF News Mission Soccer Bro And Dropbox Both Apologize For Soccer Field Scuffle; Protest Planned For Thursday [Updated] Assuming you saw the video that spawned another million gentrification conversations over the weekend, you'll be relieved to know that one of the guys involved, who is apparently a Dropbox employee and may
SF News Video: Tensions Arise Over S.F. Soccer Field Between Neighborhood Kids And Recent Transplants A video came in to our tip line that records a lengthy back-and-forth two weeks ago between some twentysomething white guys who had paid Rec & Parks for a one-hour reservation at the
SF News Three San Francisco Retail Icons Lose Their Leases, Close Under the title "retail icons," we're including the 97-Cent Plus Store on Divisadero. Still, the pattern of small, longtime San Francisco business closing due to the City's vast economy gap continues. Hoodline brings
SF News Mark Zuckerberg's San Francisco Neighbors Have Just About Had It With Him Underdressed-dressed billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have spent the past 17 months renovating their 1920's Dolores Heights (what?) home and show no signs of stopping. The Chronicle's Matier &
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Food Hall Headed To Hollywood Billiards Building In Mid-Market You've heard about the food-hall trend, right? There's the Second Act Marketplace in the old Red Vic, which followed on 331 Cortland in Bernal, and just recently we've heard about The Market Hall
SF News Cafe Cocomo, Sound Factory Close To Make Way For Housing; Elbo Room Under Threat Too [Updated] Add losing local music venues to the ever-increasing list of casualties of the tech boom. As SFist previously reported, the owners of Mission venue Elbo Room were considering turning it into a 9-unit
Arts & Entertainment Comedy Flashback: <i>Mr. Show</i> Predicts the Corporate Sanitizing of San Francisco Waaay back in the mid-90s, the pioneering, twisted sketch comedy show Mr. Show aired on HBO for three years, and produced some classic moments from the minds of David Cross and Bob Odenkirk
SF News Rising Rents Push Nonprofits Out Of Mid-Market More than a dozen nonprofits have been forced out of San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood due to rent hikes, the Chronicle reports, and the ones that remain are struggling. As Twitter, Zendesk, Square,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Stop Being Poor' You may remember Esta Noche standby (sob!) Persia's "Google Google Apps Apps." How could you not? It was, after all, the anti-gentrification anthem of summer 2013. A year later, she's back again with
