SF Bay Area

Pinterest Paid $90M to Break Lease in SOMA, Other Tech Giants May Follow
Now that everyone is working from home in the tech industry, massively expensive office space in one of the most expensive cities in the world, has officially become a liability. When companies like Pinterest are willing to pay $9o million dollars to get out of their lease in San Francisco,

SF DocFest 2020 Preview
Coronavirus concerns have curbed holding the 19th annual San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (aka DocFest) live. So this year DocFest attendees will have to do without drinking parties at a nearby Mission District bar or opportunities to meet a filmmaker in real life. Fortunately, despite a general lack of live

A Map of SF’s New Parklets
There are new parklets springing up all over the city this summer. Small businesses from restaurants to art galleries are putting up seating areas outside in order to more safely serve the public. For general information about how to erect a parklet safely, and who to contact ect, check out

SF ‘Slow Streets’ Map
The SFMTA’s new ‘Slow Streets’ program is designed to limit through traffic on certain residential streets and allow them to be used more as a shared space for foot and bicycle traffic. Throughout the city, dozens of corridors have been planned or implemented as a ‘Slow Streets’. Obviously, due

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City to Evict North Oakland Homeless Encampment Thursday Morning
On Monday, a group of about 30 people living in tents and RVs were given 72-hour notice to vacate the North Oakland neighborhood near 38th Street and Manila Avenue. Several people who currently live there were originally swept out from Mosswood Park in February. The United Front Against Displacement organization

SF Supes Extend Covid-19 Worker, Renter Protections
Guest post by Wesley Wells We’re sitting through the San Francisco Board of Supervisors meetings and breaking them down for you so you don’t have to! Here’s the mini minutes for the Board of Supervisors held Tuesday, August 25, 2020. Full minutes are available right here. Video and transcript are

Why is the SF Fire Department Facing Budget Cuts Amid a Megafire Era?
As citizens were applauding our first responders and those on the frontlines of the historic Northern California blazes, the San Francisco Fire Department has been fighting battles of their own over city wide budget cuts.