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A Board of Supervisors analyst report identifies 147 publicly owned San Francisco properties to evaluate for affordable housing, and says funding, not land, is the main bottleneck.
CRANE, a 40-minute light, music and projection piece on the Hunters Point Shipyard gantry crane, runs October 9, 10, 16 and 17, 2026, with Bayview watch parties and a free livestream.
Mayor Daniel Lurie’s new rules cut San Francisco’s Flock license plate reader data retention from up to a year to 30 days and require a case number for every search.
Alcatraz Island closes to visitors starting October 26, 2026, while crews replace two ferry dock pilings; repairs are expected to be finished by November 18.
A city working group has narrowed the new name for Cesar Chavez Street to Sí Se Puede or Las Campesinas, and Supervisor Jackie Fielder plans to introduce renaming legislation on October 6.
The San Francisco Girls Chorus has listed 44 Page St., the former New Druid Temple it has owned since 2005, for $13.75 million so it can move into one building where it can also perform.
Warfield Commons, the building above the Warfield at 988 Market St., opened on September 27 with KALW’s new studios and 10 other arts and media tenants, and its owners say it is about 90 percent occupied.
With California under a state of emergency ahead of a forecast very strong El Niño, San Francisco offers free sandbags six days a week, a 100-year flood map and grants of up to $100,000 for flood-proofing.
Three competing slates, including one that splits the city’s usual GrowSF and union coalitions, are running for three open seats on the San Francisco Board of Education this November.
Mayor Daniel Lurie’s committee has raised $11 million for his three November charter reform measures, more than every other San Francisco ballot measure combined.
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