SF News Humpday Headlines: DA Jenkins Vows Crackdown on Tenderloin Drug Sales 229 Bay Area Tesla workers are getting laid off, new SF DA Brooke Jenkins took a walking tour of the Tenderloin and vowed a crackdown, and the Upper Haight is found to be the neighborhood with the highest concentration of Airbnbs.
SF News The Tenderloin 'Formerly Known As Linkage’ Center To Shut Down at the End of the Year The Tenderloin Center that started as the centerpiece of Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin emergency declaration will be wound down by year’s end, as Breed’s new budget yanks the funding for it.
SF News Oakland Man Is Latest High-Level Tenderloin Drug Dealer to Get Federal Sentence The feds continue to convict and put away drug dealers at various levels in the food chain who worked the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin. And while others likely quickly moved in to replace them, this is perhaps taking some fentanyl off the streets?
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 Tenderloin Linkage Center Gets Approved for Six More Months, But Don’t Call It a ‘Linkage Center’ The controversial Tenderloin Linkage Center has been quietly renamed to simply the Tenderloin Center, and the SF Board of Supervisors just approved it staying at UN Plaza another six months, for the rest of 2022.
SF News Court Thwarts SF’s Attempt to Ban Four Alleged Repeat Drug Dealers From the Tenderloin The SF City Attorney attempted to ban certain specific repeat drug dealing arrestees from re-entering a 50-block radius of the Tenderloin, but a state appeals court just shot that down.
SF News Street Safety Ambassador Allegedly Shot in Tenderloin Friday Afternoon; SFPD Still Looking for at Large Shooter Around 2 p.m. Friday, SF police responded to a shooting on Turk Street that reportedly involved an individual working for Urban Alchemy — the non-profit organization whose ambassadors in the Tenderloin help discourage conflict — and the shooter has yet to be found.
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 Four Shootings and Two Stabbings Over the Weekend In Tenderloin and SoMa There were four separate shooting incidents over the weekend in San Francisco's Tenderloin and SoMa neighborhoods, though none of them were fatal.
SF News Former Castro Sex Club Eros Seeks to Take Over Historic Bathhouse Space In the Tenderloin We now know the proposed new location for Market Street bathhouse Eros, at the Turk and Taylor Street former home of Bulldog Baths, but we don’t know if city regulations will change allowing them to open their doors.
SF News Feds Bust Oakland Man For Fentanyl and Meth Sales In SF's Tenderloin Federal prosecutors are highlighting a case of an arrest of a Tenderloin drug dealer who allegedly sold significant quantities of fentanyl, as well as a smattering of meth, to undercover agents in the last several months.
SF News Breed’s Tenderloin Linkage Center Closed for One Day for Privacy Additions, and It’s Now Back Open The Tenderloin Linkage Center took a one-day break to re-fence the area for privacy, but opened again Saturday, and now looks like it will stay in place for the rest of the year.
SF Politics Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration Ends With a Whimper, Supervisors Wonder If It Didn’t Make Things Worse The much publicized Tenderloin emergency declaration will fizzle out Thursday, and the Board of Supervisors spent four hours debating its effectiveness Tuesday, concluding it merely pushed the urban blight to other parts of the city.
SF News Street Ambassador Shot In Tenderloin Near 'Safe Sleeping' Site An employee of the nonprofit Urban Alchemy, which the City of San Francisco contracts with to manage some homeless services like the "safe sleeping village" tent encampments, was shot and injured Tuesday afternoon.
SF News Open Drug Use at Breed’s Tenderloin Linkage Center Divides Addiction Experts Media reports confirm that people are allowed to use drugs at the Tenderloin Linkage Center, which some recovery experts applaud, and others say is “like trying to have an AA meeting in a bar.”
SF News Supervisors Take a Do-Over Vote on Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration, Decide to Delay Their Vote Again After demanding a revote on Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin “state of emergency” declaration, the supervisors debated it for three hours Tuesday night, and then just punted another vote out to February 8.
SF News Supervisors Give Breed Her Tenderloin Emergency Declaration in Late-Night 12:30 a.m. Christmas Eve Vote London Breed got her Tenderloin ‘State of Emergency’ declaration approved by the Board of Supervisors, in a contentious ten-and-a-half hour meeting that stretched into the early hours of Christmas Eve.
SF Politics DA Boudin, Unsurprisingly, Not a Fan of Breed’s Proposed Tenderloin Crime Crackdown It’s not a shocker that progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin has come out against mayor Breed’s plan to stack the Tenderloin with more law enforcement, but board president Shamann Walton is opposing it too, which could derail the mayor's plan.
SF News Breed Declares ‘State of Emergency’ in the Tenderloin Over ‘Nasty Streets’ An unusual declaration of emergency in the Tenderloin over opiate use may win praise for adding more cops and treatment options, but Breed might get pushback for the enhanced surveillance, and who knows
SF Politics Breed Announces Another Tenderloin Crime Crackdown; This Time She Must Be Serious Because She Said ‘Bulls**t’ The mayor of SF announced Tuesday her intention to stack the Tenderloin with more cops, with “more aggressive with law enforcement” to end “all the bullshit that has destroyed our city.”
SF News Shootings in the Tenderloin and Potrero Leave One Dead, Three Injured A pair of separate weekend shootings in San Francisco left three people injured and one female victim dead.
SF News 22-Year-Old Man Shot By Random Gunfire Near SF Civic Center A 22-year-old male was shot and wounded on Hyde Street in the Tenderloin Monday night, and it appears to have been the result of random gunfire.
SF News 48-Year-Old Man Killed in San Francisco Shooting Has Been Identified On August 17, a fortysomething man was attacked and shot near the 800 block of Larkin Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Over a week later, the body has been officially identified as one Theodore Tolliver.
SF News Video: Woman Sets Police Truck on Fire in the Tenderloin, Remains at Large After a woman successfully managed to torch an SFPD pickup truck Wednesday afternoon, police have a description of her, but don't know her name or have her in custody.
SF News 94-Year-Old Asian Woman Stabbed In the Tenderloin, Suspect Has Long Rap Sheet, Was Out on Bail A 94-year-old Asian woman was reportedly stabbed Wednesday morning in San Francisco in what's been described as an unprovoked attack.
