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Stanley Roberts explores the total resurgence of the newly revitalized Mid Market neighborhood of San Francisco. Stanley did another one last year just around the corner

SF Citizen also posted this video

some people in sausalito take their views very seriously

2nd and Main street, Sausalito

No, that's not a harmonica



and needles too. Don't forget that needles are an essential accessory for Mid Market, San Francisco

Marinello's School of Beauty and 1035 Market could put in some couches in the lobby there and sell some popcorn

Tenderloin Housing Clinic is now the biggest city funded non-profit in San Francisco with a budget of $92 million dollars, with nearly all of it coming from the Human Services Agency of San Francisco. It almost went to $93 million last month but an additional $153,000 was denied by the HSA because of tenant complaints at the Department of Building Inspection

Those DBI complaints were voiced at a budget meeting at the HSA on November 15, 2012. In short, Randy Shaw and Tenderloin Housing Clinic has essentially been slapped with a fine for being a slum lord. It's worth noting that the city of San Francisco pays this $92 million in order to provide safe, clean affordable housing to low income residents. Most of this money is supposed to be used for upkeep and maintenance, so if it isn't being used, where is the money going?

The first document is the minutes of the HSA meeting that includes the public comment from one of the tenants at the All Star hotel in the Mission, which is then followed by discussion and the motion to approve the additional $153,000 was denied because it failed to get a second vote. Also below is some of the actual complaints at the Department of Building Inspection

TENDERLOIN HOUSING CLINIC Adult Supportive Housing Program Manager Ylonda Calloway presented the request to modify the grant with TENDERLOIN HOUSING CLINIC for provision of the Housing First Program Care Not Cash and Non-Care Not Cash Sites; during the period of July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013; in the additional amount of $153,415 fora revised total grant amount not to exceed $93,088,573.Additionally, Ms Calloway furnished an update re the All Star Hotel which has been deemed as safe. Eldon James Brown, a tenant of the All Star Hotel, expressed concern re the still existing building code violations which the building landlord has failed to address. Discussion followed.Commissioner Yamasaki moved approval of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic grant modification. The motion failed for the lack of a second

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Restoration of butterfly habitat at the top of Strawberry Hill in Golden gate park started two years ago with the latest volunteer effort just two weeks ago

This involves putting native plants on the hill top that butterflies like

full flickr set

monarch butterflies on Strawberry Hill



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senior citizens of Mid Market

Time is running out for the Chinese garment companies to vacate 1019 Market. These photos are from a few days ago. While much attention has been paid to other areas of Mid Market, this is almost completely ignored

The building not only housed working garment factories, but also artists like Apex who are also now being evicted. The rooftop art work is likely to be wiped out with the new owners Cannae Partners



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This is part of what makes living in SF worth it and it's less than 30 minutes from downtown SF via Bart and bike. Part of the Oakland Estuary and the great Bay Trail, this is at the junction of Martin Luther King Regional Shoreline and San Leandro creek between the Oakland airport and the Oakland Coliseum.

It's not very well known and much less crowded than any of the San Francisco parks. Right now some of the western bird migrations are happening from Alaska, joining native shoreline birds

These are native Black-necked Stilt mingling with Alaskan Black Turnstone that just migrated here for the winter a few weeks ago



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fire acrobatics on a rooftop in western SOMA, San Francisco

Vintage crackheads of Mid Market. This video was taken on October 28, 2006. It was never posted on this blog since it was taken before the blog started in 2007. It was on Youtube for 6 years and recently somebody complained. It was removed by Youtube and now Youtube is claiming this video is harassment

Youtube is essentially saying that I am harassing crackheads by taking videos of them in the Mid Market neighborhood of San Francisco. By this logic, taking ANY video on a public street in Mid Market would be considered harassment. This of course would be the opposite of the similar Adamsblock getting death threats for doing the same thing(SFCitizen).

updated. Youtube reviewed it again and now says the video simply violates their community guidelines. Whatever. Sanitized Youtube. No reality allowed
update 2 > apparently you can violate Youtubes community guidelines if you assassinate people with missiles

Somebody does not want you to know the truth about Mid Market, San Francisco, and it could very well be politically motivated since according to mayor Ed Lee, Mid Market is set for a total resurgence

this is the original video from October 28, 2006, now shown for the first time on Bluoz. The original title was "6th Street and Stevenson, San Francisco, crackhead central - "

everybody's so friendly in the new up and coming Mid Market neighborhood of San Francisco

Here's the reason why the new tech sector in Mid Market San Francisco barely notices what goes on in their own doorsteps and why tech and crackheads are the perfect match

via Morgen Missen who has at least three strands out of place in that photo



More Tenderloin Housing Clinic residents doing and distributing crack in the corrupt Twitterloin



That's Karen. She lives at 34 6th Street around the corner and is has been housed at one of Randy Shaw's buildings for years. She is not homeless and hasn't been for a long time. Both Randy Shaw and the Chronicle perpetuate the myth that simply housing these people will 'get them off the streets' when the exact opposite is true. They are in fact, on the streets much longer now as a result of being housed

This is the same Karen inside the building and she wants her crack pipe









this is all courtesy of Randy Shaw who runs this highest crime building in Mid Market and is the same Randy Shaw who has helped to push the Mid Market tax break for Twitter and tech companies

It was 10 years ago today in San Francisco.

This was the first big antiwar protest since the 60's. The next big one was January 19, 2003. These photos published for the first time.

Full Flickr set is here



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The building with the most police, fire, and ambulance calls in Mid Market, San Francisco, is the Seneca Hotel at 34 6th street. This was written about once before in the Examiner. The building is run by Tenderloin Housing Clinic and Randy Shaw and is next door to Dotties True Blue Cafe. The Seneca was not always like this. It was much better before 1997 when Alfred Raynal owned it and it was a working persons SRO. In 1997 the building was sold to the Patels and subsequently master leased to Randy Shaw in 1999. The mayhem has been one of the highest in the city ever since 1997. This affects the Mid Market area and this is how to fix it



http://www.bluoz.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1408-Randy-Shaw-Crime-Crusader.html

According to SFPD’s Department of Emergency Management, police have been called to the Henry Hotel 143 times since early November, an average of just more than one call per day. Of seven residential hotels in the area The San Francisco Examiner inquired about, only one other, the Seneca Hotel, was the source of more calls: 287.

What the Examiner was looking at was 911 dispatch records. Below are three months of these records, January-March 2012. There's a pretty good chance Randy Shaw runs the highest crime building in the entire city of San Francisco. These stats have been posted here at Bluoz twice before here and here