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 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 A Huge Number of SF's Supportive Housing Units Are In Run-Down, Vermin-Infested SROs, and It's Barely Better Than Being Homeless The Chronicle has crunched some numbers and gone inside a handful of the SROs dotting the Tenderloin and SOMA to show just how terrible the situation really is for SF's supportive housing stock.
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 'Tech Bar And Lounge' Applies For Liquor License In Former Oakland SRO A former single-resident occupancy hotel in Oakland that's being renovated by an upstart San Francisco real estate company could sport a literally luxe first floor bar and lounge. According to an East Bay
SF News Former SRO Damaged In Bernal Heights Fire Now Marketed As Developer 'Cash Cow' A Bernal Heights fire last June displaced 58 people when it destroyed the Cole Hardware building at 3312 Mission Street and badly damaged neighboring buildings including the Graywood Hotel, an SRO at 3308
SF News 5 Of 7 Division Street Campers Profiled By Chronicle Still Homeless 9 Months After Camp Clearing Though it's been overshadowed this week by the flood of news connected to the Oakland's Ghost Ship fire, a number of news outlets this week are circling back to the SF Homeless Project
SF News SoMa SRO Damaged In 2011 Fire Illegally Turned Into Tech Worker Co-Op The former SRO at 1040 Folsom Street, which was heavily damaged in a three-alarm fire in May 2011, was quietly turned into one of those modern communes we've been hearing so much about,
SF News Fake Chinatown Roach Sprayer Assaults, Robs The Elderly Folks in Chinatown are on high alert after a series of brutal robberies have hit the area. Specifically, a well-dressed man described as being "anywhere from 40- to 50-year-old" and "last seen wearing
SF News 5 SF Police Officers Indicted For Extortion, Drug Dealing Boom. Today five active police officers and one former cop were indicted on charges of extortion, drug dealing, and theft, and falsifying police reports (just to name a few) while working for the
SF News 9th Circuit Denies Plea From City, Tenants For Mailboxes In SROs An effort by tenants' rights advocates and City Attorney Dennis Herrera to get individual postal delivery mandated by law at Tenderloin SROs has been rejected by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Basically
SF News City Attorney, Tenant Advocates Fight U.S. Postal Service Over Delivery Rules for SROs Under current U.S. Postal Service procedure, mail carriers aren't obligated to sort and deliver mail to individual occupants in single-room occupancy hotels, using instead a bulk delivery point like a desk clerk.
