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SFO’s Freighter Fleet Has Lost 64% of Its Cargo Since 2000

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Sep 11, 2026

One Union Square Hotel Holds 1 Percent of All San Francisco Addresses

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Sep 9, 2026

San Francisco Cut Tenderloin Tents 81% Under a 2020 Court Order

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Sep 7, 2026

Financial District/South Beach Holds 61% of SF's Downtown Art Mandate

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Sep 4, 2026

One Lobbyist Filed 6% of Every City Contact, Nearly All to Planning

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Sep 3, 2026

The Mission Out-Tickets Downtown San Francisco by $2.5 Million a Year

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Aug 31, 2026

One South of Market Building Reserves All 96 Units for the Formerly Homeless

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Aug 28, 2026

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Ruby Princess Is Set to Make 33 of San Francisco’s 89 Cruise Calls

Ruby Princess Is Set to Make 33 of San Francisco’s 89 Cruise Calls

For the second year running, San Francisco’s cruise pier will host more than two dozen different ships. Better than one call in three belongs to the same one, and next year’s schedule already repeats it.

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Sep 14, 2026

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San Francisco police solved 6.6% of property crimes in 2018, down from 17% in 1985

San Francisco police solved 6.6% of property crimes in 2018, down from 17% in 1985

Burglaries and car break-ins are about as common now as four decades ago. But in 1985 police solved one case in six. By 2018 it was one in fifteen, and the state's own numbers rule out the easy excuse.

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Aug 26, 2026

San Francisco's 2004 chain-store law banned El Farolito's 12th shop

San Francisco's 2004 chain-store law banned El Farolito's 12th shop

The ordinance that invented "formula retail" still bans chains outright in three neighborhoods. Seventeen years after writing North Beach's version of that ban, the former supervisor who wrote it found a way around his own law to let a Mission taquería in.

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Aug 24, 2026

San Francisco's Sanitation and Streets Department lasted just one budget: $116.7 million

San Francisco's Sanitation and Streets Department lasted just one budget: $116.7 million

Voters created the agency in November 2020 and eliminated it two years later, before it produced a second year of spending.

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Aug 21, 2026

Treasure Island created 1,318 of San Francisco's 1,534 new lots in 2026

Treasure Island created 1,318 of San Francisco's 1,534 new lots in 2026

The island's redevelopment recorded 86 percent of every new property line the city drew this year.

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Aug 19, 2026

Salesforce Tower Filed 7% of San Francisco's H-1B Sponsorships

Salesforce Tower Filed 7% of San Francisco's H-1B Sponsorships

One office tower accounted for 144 of the city's 2,044 H-1B filings last quarter, more than any other San Francisco address by a wide margin. A year earlier the tower carried more filings in raw terms, 164; what grew was Salesforce's own grip on the building, from three-quarters of its filings to nine in ten, as other tenants there pulled back and nearly all of Salesforce's own filings were renewals, not new hires.

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Aug 17, 2026

Seven San Francisco neighborhoods have zero affordable units in the pipeline

Seven San Francisco neighborhoods have zero affordable units in the pipeline

Four others hold 53% of the 10,100 income-restricted units now moving toward completion: Bayview Hunters Point, the Mission, Mission Bay, and the Financial District/South Beach.

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Aug 14, 2026

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