S.F. Media In Homeless Focus

In this issue of the Marina Times, you will find a number of articles and columns addressing the homeless problem in San Francisco. This paper is an active participant in a coaliti... Read More

News Briefs

Crime Report

An increase in robberies in April appeared to abate in May, reported Northern Station Captain John Jaimerena. He had shifted some of his officers to focus on robberies and saturate... Read More

News Briefs

Treasure Island’s Special Sauce?

Saying the addition of George Lucas’s much-bandied-about museum to Treasure Island might be the “special sauce” the island has needed, District 3 Supervisor Aaron... Read More

News Briefs

Cameras, No Tasers, For Police

Repeated efforts to introduce the use of stun guns to the San Francisco police force as a way to reduce shooting deaths at the hands of officers have gone nowhere. Greg Suhr, who w... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Some of the homeless people you pass have been in your shoes

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

A few months ago I came across a letter to the San Francisco Business Times. The author, an understandably frustrated San Francisco resident named Richard Kales, went on at length about the perils of working downtown with its throngs of drug addicted, mentally ill, and sometimes violent denizens.... Read More

Supervisor's Report

Homelessness in the city of St. Francis: Problems and solutions

By Supervisor Mark E. Farrell

Homelessness is an intractable issue that has plagued San Francisco and cities and countries across the world for decades. Poverty, housing shortages, growing income inequality, s... Read More

Supervisor's Report

How we fight back: accountability and love

By Aaron Peskin

At the Board of Supervisors meeting following the June 12 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the worst mass shooting in our nation’s history, my colleagues and I re... Read More

North Beach Journal

Homeless people: Yes, they are our problem

By Ernest Beyl

The last time I saw Alphonsus McCourt was at the memorial for his celebrity bartender brother, Michael. Alphie, as everyone calls him, came out from New York and read one of his p... Read More

News Briefs, Real Estate

Will There Be a Soft Landing For The Bay Area?

By John Zipperer

You can finally see the signs that some have predicted and others have feared (and a few have cheered) for some time: the local economy is beginning to cool, and its impact is bein... Read More

News Briefs, Real Estate

Governor Brown’s Housing Plan Advances

By John Zipperer

Gov. Jerry Brown and the state legislature agreed on a budget that also moves forward the governor’s plan announced in May to speed up approvals of new housing developments i... Read More

News Briefs, Real Estate

Market is the Market’s Leader

By John Zipperer

Market Street, the famous commercial road cutting through San Francisco from the Ferry Building to Twin Peaks, is the city’s leading place for office rents. Asking rates for ... Read More

Issue July 2016