San Francisco's housing and governance failures are compounding: SFMTA just voted to gut 365 of 465 promised affordable units from the Potrero Yard project, exposing that the city never had funding to build them in the first place — while the community that spent eight years designing the project wasn't even consulted. Meanwhile, Mayor Lurie is pushing the city's first comprehensive charter reform in 30 years to break the structural dysfunction enabling these failures, as progressive supervisors Chan and Fielder continue blocking street-level drug interventions even as SF's overdose death toll since 2020 tops 3,700.
The Feb. 4 deadline to challenge soft-on-crime judges is days away—and almost no one has stepped up.
SF's state legislator asks Attorney General to probe missing trees instead of addressing homelessness, drug deaths, or housing.
Antoine Watson shoved an 84-year-old to his death, photographed the body, and got involuntary manslaughter. Welcome to San Francisco.