ARTICLES' ARCHIVE
The Weight of a Long Memory
At Providence Baptist Church, the candidates for District 10 supervisor arrived with speeches. The community arrived with decades of unanswered questions — and a single
When a Few Dollars Can Cost You a Home
San Francisco Draws a Line Against Eviction Supervisor Jackie Fielder’s proposal would set a minimum rent debt before a tenant can be evicted for nonpayment.
The Machine in the Ledger
They built San Francisco’s Black housing legacy with Sunday-school money and sweat equity. Now its elders are facing eviction over debts no one can document
“Do Not Delete or Destroy”: SFUSD Tells Every Employee It Is Under Federal Investigation — Four Months After the Letter Arrived
Superintendent Maria Su’s all-staff email confirms a U.S. Department of Justice Title IX review of gender and sexuality instruction, warns that employees’ identities may be
They Built It. Now They’re Fighting to Stay: Inside San Francisco’s Crisis of Accountability in Black Affordable Housing
At a City Hall hearing, residents of historic Fillmore housing developments described disputed evictions, inaccessible homes, missing financial records, questionable rent accounting and years of
THE OCTOBER 1 TEST
Will San Francisco Demand Answers—or Stage Another Hearing? A cooperative built to keep Black families in the Fillmore is now sending its elders eviction notices.
Two Buildings, One Blueprint
THE PRICE OF BEING POOR – PART 13 Plaza East warned us. Alice Griffith confirmed it. Now the man who has lived inside both stories
Suspended in Silence
The data they refuse to release: Coleman Advocates’ “Stop Suspending Our Success” campaign confronts SFUSD’s discriminatory suspension regime — and five years of records the
A Question of Competence
Dr. Vidrale Franklin was removed from her principalship after an investigation this newsroom has documented as procedurally irregular and, in appearance, discriminatory. A former President
