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San Francisco is paying for hotel rooms during COVID-19 to house homeless people - and 70 percent of them REFUSE to move into permanent housing because the hotel rooms are nicer A building in the city was purchased for $45 million and refurbished to become a permanent housing option, but many are refusing offers to move there Permanent housing programs have poor reputations in the Bay Area, homless advocates say Another 500 people are being moved from the streets to the hotels The city is paying for homeless people to stay in the 'shelter-in-place' hotels during the coronavirus  

SF Supervisors Move to Make Diego Rivera Mural a Landmark; SFAI Says 'Please Not Yet' The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to initiate a process to designate the famed Diego Rivera mural at the San Francisco Art Institute's Chestnut Street campus a city landmark, in order to prevent it from being sold and removed. But the financially strapped school is begging the board not to go down this path right now, because even if they don't sell the mural they need to use the asset to secure a loan. As one of three murals that Rivera painted in San Francisco between 1931 and 1940, the 1931 mural ...

First Amendment takes a beating at S.F. Board of Supervisors - until they backtrack FacebookTwitterEmail San Francisco District Five Supervisor Dean Preston led the charge against the Marina Times, but it didn’t last long.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2019 It may be hard to believe in a city that puts the First Amendment above all else, but the San Francisco Board of Supervisors was on track to out-trump President Trump by pulling official city advertising from a neighborhood newspaper because the supes didn’t like its coverage of them or city issues. The target was the Marina Times, one o...

In S.F., stealing a car is only the beginning of the crime FacebookTwitterEmail 2 1of2A person drives a Tesla Model S in the Embarcadero on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif.Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle 2019Show MoreShow Less 2of2Candidate for SF supervisor in District 5 is Dean Preston (left) as he speaks at an editorial board meeting at the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019 in San Francisco, Calif.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2019Show MoreShow Less Auto thefts in San Francisco have rocketed up 33% this year, with many of the vehicles being used as ...