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Supervisors back appeal, delay housing project on Mission District laundromat site
By on June 19, 2018
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday sided with Mission District activists challenging a housing development on the site of a former laundromat, ordering the developer to conduct a »

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Navy’s retesting plan for Hunters Point Shipyard cleanup released
By on June 15, 2018
The U.S. Navy has hired two contractors to resurvey and oversee retesting on the first of several sites on the Hunters Point Shipyard, where a fraudulent toxic cleanup has cast »

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City struggles to identify, track retail vacancies
By on June 3, 2018
After a city inventory reported zero vacant commercial storefronts in San Francisco’s Richmond District, a frustrated Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer put a call out to residents to help her identify »

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Report: More than 80 applicants for every low-income SF rental
By on May 21, 2018
San Francisco had nearly 82 applicants for every one of the 1,025 low-income housing rentals it had available last year, according to a new report. That number is only the »

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Conflicting visions for McDonald’s site highlight neighborhood resistance to homeless services
By on May 20, 2018
Local service providers hoping to offer homeless youth services on the site of the former Haight Street McDonald’s while plans for affordable housing there take shape are facing pushback from »

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Senior care facility owners sued over failure to provide affordable units
By on May 17, 2018
The owners of a senior care facility who are being sued by The City for failing to provide housing to low-income seniors made a failed attempt to legalize the conversion »

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SF Planning Commission adopts sweeping development plan for Central SoMa
By on May 11, 2018
The Planning Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a massive neighborhood rezoning plan for San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood that included slightly more potential housing after the original plan came »

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Major mixed-use development breaks ground at Pier 70
By on May 10, 2018
Construction began today at San Francisco’s Pier 70, where a development with more than 1,000 new homes, up to 1.75 million square feet of commercial office space and up to »

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