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4 of San Francisco’s 10 Cultural Districts Predate the City’s Funding for Them

Sep 16, 2026

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4 of San Francisco’s 10 Cultural Districts Predate the City’s Funding for Them

The Board of Supervisors began naming protected cultural corridors in 2013. The city did not fund or staff a program to run them until voters passed Proposition E in 2018.

Business

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

Sep 14, 2026

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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.

Business

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Dedicated cargo planes carried about a third of everything that flew as freight through San Francisco International a quarter-century ago. Today they carry about a fifth, and belly holds on ordinary passenger jets carry almost everything else.

Business

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

Sep 9, 2026

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

Club Donatello’s 45 rooms have been divided into 2,295 timeshare interests since 1984. That is most of the reason its downtown block logs more separate street addresses than all but one other in the city.

Streets & Safety

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

Sep 7, 2026

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

A federal lawsuit forced the city to cut tents 70% by July 20, 2020. It happened early, then the count climbed back for a year, until the public tally simply stopped.

Culture & History

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

Sep 4, 2026

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

A 1985 law makes developers pay for public art as the price of building downtown. Four decades and 65 works later, six in ten sit in one neighborhood.

City Hall

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

Sep 3, 2026

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

Melinda Sarjapur, a partner at the land-use firm Reuben, Junius & Rose, has logged more contacts with San Francisco officials than any other lobbyist since public disclosure began in 2010. Her pace has since collapsed.

Streets & Safety

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

Aug 31, 2026

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

Over the twelve months through July, San Francisco's Mission District generated $15.5 million in parking-citation fines, more than any other neighborhood in the city and $2.5 million ahead of the Financial District and South Beach, its own downtown core.

Housing

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

Aug 28, 2026

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

All 96 apartments at 53 Colton Street are reserved for tenants who were homeless before they moved in, one of 24 San Francisco addresses set aside that way. Citywide, 5,628 of the 36,395 units in the city's affordable-housing portfolio, 15.5 percent, carry the same designation.

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4 of San Francisco’s 10 Cultural Districts Predate the City’s Funding for Them

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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