A plan to turn the Francis Scott Key Annex in the Outer Sunset District from a dilapidated
surplus school property into new housing for teachers is moving forward, as city officials
seek ways to keep educators from leaving for less expensive towns.
Future of Large Kirkham Heights Project Debated
At the southern end of Fifth Avenue in the Inner Sunset District, next to the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF), sits an 86-unit housing complex on six acres of land
built in 1950 called Kirkham Heights.
Real Estate
I examined the single-family home markets in the Richmond and Sunset districts and compared them
against the data in San Francisco as a whole.
Letters to the Editor – Sunset Beacon
Letters to the Editor – Community Feedback
June Calendar of Events – Sunset District
Things to do, June 2017.
Sunset Roommates Hit the Road, Make SF Doc Fest
Four straight men and one straight woman were committed enough to
“Homo The Documentary” to drive 18 hours in a row to be on time to interview
a subject in Oregon and to spontaneously grab their equipment to get footage of a gay
pride parade (called Emancipation Parade) in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Students Clean Beach; Create Art
Nearly 1,000 elementary school students from San Francisco and Marin came
together to “rescue” San Francisco’s Ocean Beach on May 17 at the 24th annual
Kids Ocean Day Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup.
City Hall – Supervisor Katy Tang
Community updates from SF Supervisor Katy Tang
Police Blotter – Sunset District
Recent police activity in the Sunset District
Sunset Spotlight
A NEIGHBORHOOD JOURNAL Lowell Student wins Lions’ Speaking Contest Frances Sutton, a senior at Lowell High School, won the International Lions Club’s District 4-C4 Student Speaker Contest on April 23. The topic of Sutton’s speech was: “Is the right to privacy a threat to our […]
Film highlights Parkmerced
A new film about Parkmerced will be featured at the 16th annual SF Documentary Festival in June. “Who Killed Parkmerced?” explores the fate of the largest residential housing development in the City, located next to San Francisco […]
Real Estate
Ways to resolve conflicts John M. Lee In the practice of real estate, conflicts and negotiation between buyers and sellers are commonplace. But what happens when an agreement cannot be reached and neither […]
Quiet on the Playland Front
Photo of Playland at the Beach, circa 1940.
May Calendar of Events – Sunset
Calendar of Events for the Sunset District
Commentary – Housing Rights Committee
San Francisco’s rents are the highest in the nation, leading many landlords to
become speculators, anxious to use their properties for greater profits
from high market prices.
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon 