COMMUNITY & SOCIETY
Tenderloin
Enough Fentanyl to Kill 2x SF's Population Already Removed, Gov. Newsom Doubles State Officers
Following early success of the program to tackle the fentanyl crisis in San Francisco, Governor Gavin Newsom is doubling the number of California Highway Patrol and National Guard officers deployed in an attempt to make a dramatic difference.
Site of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in the Tenderloin is now a historic landmark
The SF Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to make the entire corner of Turk and Taylor Streets a historic landmark, as the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot that helped spark the LGBTQ rights movement.
A 17-block ‘Yellow Brick Road’ is coming to the Tenderloin
The Tenderloin has the highest concentration of children of any San Francisco neighborhood, and the SF Board of Supervisors just approved a Yellow Brick Road to direct kids away from blight, and toward schools, parks, and community centers.
Local TV news piece on ‘luxury condos’ overlooking Tenderloin encampment draws jeers from all sides
Social media is piling on a new local TV station report about how “luxury condos overlook city’s worst squalor,” with some mocking how the issue is framed, and others eager to lodge the insult “Pelosiland.”
