Struggling with debt? Trying to save to buy a home? Worried about paying off student loans? City Hall offers a program called “Smart Money Coaching” for anyone who lives, works, or receives services in San Francisco.
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I led a hearing on the impact of downtown business closures on our local economy, tax base, and city budget.
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More than 10,000 people showed up to the first-ever Sunset Night Market. What explains such a large crowd? Certainly people wanted a night market experience. But I believe the overwhelming response was because we needed it.
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Intern Voice features student interns in Supervisor Joel Engardio’s office who researched issues and wrote OpEds for their final project.
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There’s a gap in the existing law for store awnings. Fees are waived for replacement awnings only. We need an ordinance to cover new installations to help small businesses. Statement by Supervisor Engardio February 28, 2023
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I believe San Francisco’s best days are ahead. We deserve to live in a city that works. Here’s how.
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Do you still believe in San Francisco? I do. I’m running for supervisor to create our best San Francisco.
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When we’re forced to work and attend school from our kitchen tables, a shaky internet connection at home is as frustrating as driving down a bumpy road. City Hall is supposed to fill potholes. Perhaps it’s time to add fiber infrastructure to the list of essential municipal services. Fiber in every home would benefit everyone and give our local economy a boost in a post-pandemic world.
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The Neighborhood News Network interviews Joel Engardio about what City Hall must do to save small businesses in San Francisco.
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San Francisco has been good at flattening the coronavirus curve. But will City Hall make the tough decisions to flatten a devastating economic curve? Our $13 billion budget was racking up debt in boom times. Now, the projected deficits are staggering. There are no shortcuts to survive the coming recession. We must enact a "pandemic-era" budget of shared sacrifice.
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A radical change in our attitude toward business is needed if we want local merchants to survive beyond coronavirus — and keep our city from spiraling into irrelevance. Small businesses were going extinct in San Francisco long before the pandemic turned everything upside down. City Hall’s excessive fees, regulations and bureaucracy are to blame.
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A letter and petition to California Governor Gavin Newsom from more than 400 homeowners experiencing hardship from the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. They are asking for the property tax payment to be moved from April to July, when state income taxes are now due.
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A looming San Francisco property tax bill will be hard to pay for homeowners during the coronavirus pandemic shut down. City Hall should tell the state to postpone the property tax due date from April until July, just like the federal government already has for individual taxes.
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Merchant corridor doctor Vas Kiniris has a prescription for San Francisco’s historic West Portal: Embrace the future. “Millennials run the world now. But the rest of us can still be active participants in contemporary life. We can be perennials — always growing and blooming.”
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Heroin needles and broken glass from car break-ins litter San Francisco streets. Property crimes and housing prices continue to soar. Perhaps our city should turn its lonely eyes to Assessor Carmen Chu: "Think of me as your neighborhood assessor."
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They're leaders who influence San Francisco's future. She’s an urbanist who likes density and fewer cars. He’s devoted to preserving single-family homes and parking. They represent opposite sides of the housing debate. Yet Christine Johnson and George Wooding agree on more than you think. Meet the not-so-odd couple.
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What good is San Francisco without young couples like Rica and Chris? She makes ice cream that draws crowds. He coaches high school basketball. They have a baby on the way. If we want our kids and grandkids to have a shot at staying here, we must build more housing for middle-income families now.
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Shrugs abound when asking people on the street what they know about the Office of Assessor-Recorder at City Hall. Yet Carmen Chu is poised to become the most famous and celebrated assessor-recorder in San Francisco history — by helping us survive the financial retribution of President Trump.
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“San Francisco likes to project paranoia and fear on a movie screen when it comes to change. Rise SF is offering an alternative movie. We embrace change because we believe that’s where the solutions are.”
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Before buying our house, my husband Lionel and I took the Red Lobster test. What if we both lost our jobs and had to get by working as servers at the seafood restaurant? Could we still afford the house? Looking at San Francisco’s $9.6 billion budget, I wonder if City Hall should take the same test.
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