San Francisco officials offer tips for safe Lunar New Year celebrations
San Francisco officials offer tips for safe Lunar New Year celebrations
San Francisco supervisors and police representatives walked the streets today, connecting with the community and sharing safety tips for lunar new year celebrations. The issue is getting a lot of attention because of recent high profile incidents where elderly victims were targeted.
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco supervisors and police representatives walked the streets Wednesday, connecting with the community and sharing safety tips for Lunar New Year celebrations. The issue is getting a lot of attention because of recent high-profile incidents where elderly victims were targeted.
City officials said the program would end because of uncertainty around whether FEMA would cover the program s $178 million annual price tag. But in light of an announcement by U.S. President Joe Biden that FEMA will reimburse counties for 100 percent of eligible hotels retroactive to January 2020, supervisors Matt Haney, Dean Preston, Hillary Ronen, Myrna Melgar and Board President Shamman Walton on Tuesday introduced an emergency ordinance to provide more hotel rooms for homeless people and families.
The proposed ordinance calls for the city to raise the amount of SIP hotel rooms to 2,200. Haney said, With FEMA s announcement that they will fully fund the shelter in place hotels, we have an unprecedented opportunity to protect hundreds more vulnerable homeless neighbors from COVID and help people on a path out of homelessness permanently. It would be irresponsible and dangerous to continue business as usual, with the federal government affirming how critical our shelter in place
Bay Area s malls-to-housing dreams held up by pandemic
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1of14The Vallco Town Center is seen through a window while it is under construction on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021 in Cupertino, California.Gabrielle Lurie / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of14A discarded Wal-Mart shopping cart at The Shops at Hilltop in Richmond, Calif., on Monday, February 1, 2021.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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4of14Chairs are seen outside the Vallco Town Center on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021 in Cupertino, California.Gabrielle Lurie / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
5of14Shoppers at Macy s at The Shops at Hilltop in Richmond, Calif., on Monday, February 1, 2021. The department store is scheduled to close this location for good in March.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
A Thursday morning collision involving eight vehicles in the southwestern section of San Francisco has claimed the life of one pedestrian, a man in his 20s.
The members of a San Francisco supervisors panel are recommending that their colleagues start the process to landmark a gay-owned bar in the city s South of Market district.
At its meeting January 25 the supervisors land use and transportation committee unanimously voted 3-0 in support of having the city s historic preservation commission consider if the Eagle Bar, an important entertainment venue located in the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District, should be designated a city landmark. It would be the third gay bar location in San Francisco given such status if approved, and the first LGBTQ city landmark located in SOMA and related to queer leather culture.