SF News SoMa SRO Mosser Hotel Gets Rejected In Their Attempt to Convert the Place Into a Full Tourist Hotel It seems counterintuitive to scrap housing that people need in exchange for hotel rooms, especially when the SF tourism economy is struggling. But SoMa’s Mosser Hotel hoped to do just that, though the SF Planning Commission shot that idea down Thursday.
SF News Early Morning Fire Displaces Four at the SRO Formerly Known as the Hotel Diva A 1 am apartment fire Wednesday morning on the second floor of the former Hotel Diva has left four people displaced, though no one was injured.
SF News SF Finally Getting Somewhat Better at Filling Long-Vacant Supportive Housing Units In a city with thousands of unhoused people, it’s pretty aggravating that housing intended for them is just sitting empty. But there’s some comfort in the fact that SF has cut the vacancy rate at supportive housing sites nearly in half.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues Three Chinatown SRO Owners, Alleging ‘Inhumane’ Conditions City Attorney David Chiu has three Chinatown SRO landlords at the center of his latest lawsuit, saying their properties are “a public nuisance,” and that “dozens of health and safety violations linger” at these buildings.
SF News 72-Year-Old Man Finally Convicted of 2010 Rape, Murder of Younger Woman in Mission District SRO It took 13 years, but prosecutors at long last won a rape and murder conviction of a 72-year-old man accused of killing and raping a 37-year-old woman in an incident dating back to 2010.
SF News Social Worker Stabbed Four Times at Tenderloin SRO Wednesday, Remains Hospitalized A 29-year-old SRO resident is in custody on charges of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing employee Wednesday, and the employee is in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
SF News Two-Alarm Fire In Tenderloin SRO Injures One, Displaces 25 A fire broke out in the Dahlia Hotel on Turk Street around 5:40 a.m. Wednesday, spreading to multiple floors, and it has displaced 25 residents.
SF News Another SRO Suffers COVID-19 Outbreak, This Time Infecting 24 in the Mission Shelter-in-place may be effective for many San Franciscans, but the curve is hardly being flattened at numerous single-room-occupancy hotels where more flare-ups are being reported.
SF News Have You Seen This Missing SF Woman? The San Francisco Police Department is asking for the public's help to find an elderly area woman who lost touch with her family over a week ago. According to SFPD spokesperson Officer Albie
SF News Many More Families Living In Tiny SRO Units Than There Were A Decade Ago Just another depressing local real estate factoid to kick off your week: According to a new census by the SRO Families United Collaborative, there's been a 55 percent uptick in the number of
SF News Blind Tenderloin SRO Resident Falls To His Death In Empty Elevator Shaft When a Tenderloin SRO elevator door opened on an empty shaft, a blind hotel resident fell to his death, another resident tells SFist. The San Francisco Fire Department confirmed that on August 20th
SF News Third Body In Several Months Found In The Same Tenderloin SRO, Investigation Ongoing The Crosby Hotel, a 125-unit SRO building at 516 O'Farrell Street in the Tenderloin, has seen an arguably unusual number of deaths among its residents so far this year, and it made headlines
SF News Dead Bodies Keep Turning Up In Tenderloin SRO No One Should Have To Live In The Crosby Hotel at 516 O'Farrell Street may be a case study in poorly managed, essentially neglected Tenderloin SROs. Not only was a 48-year-old man found dead in his room last week of
SF News SoMa Tech Co-Op The Negev Facing City Scrutiny For Sub-Par Living Situations The Negev, a network of three commune-style SROs in SoMa that we wrote about last week, are marketed on Craigslist and a snazzy website as a paradise for young urban professionals: "Instant Friends
SF News Cops Kill Middle-Aged Woman Armed Only With Baseball Bat [Updated] Santa Clara police officers have shot and killed a middle aged woman who allegedly swung at them with an aluminum baseball bat. According to Santa Clara police Lt. Kurt Clarke, officers were called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SRO, A Tiny New Bar From The Big Team, Opens In SoMa A lot of cocktail fans mourned the loss of cozy Tenderloin spot Big, which had to give up the ghost far too quickly last year when the building it was in was sold.
SF News John Toomey, Controversial Macy's Santa, Dies John Toomey, the Santa Claus who was fired by Macy's last Christmas for telling off-color jokes, was found dead today at the Budget Inn on Market Street. The cause of death appears to
SF News Potential NIMBY Fight: Neighbors Not Keen On Lower Haight SRO Conversion Just off of the main drag in the Lower Haight, property owner David Nale's attempts to convert 15 rooms in three Fillmore street addresses he owns to an official Single Room Occupancy hotel
misc Man Describes "Nightmare" of Living at Civic Center Hotel ca. 1979 This man, whose name we believe is Bob, grew up in Vallejo and moved to San Francisco in 1979 to pursue his dreams of being a postal clerk and (possibly) becoming a liberated
