El Tecolote

2 weeks ago | eltecolote.org | Yesica Prado |Erika Carlos

Veronica Cañas sat inside a white RV with faded blue stripes on a warm summer day, cradling her baby boy as their laughter spilled through the open door. Outside, her husband washed the windows of their RV, keeping an eye on their six-year-old daughter zooming past in a plastic toy car. For years, along a quiet stretch of Winston Drive near Lake Merced, a tight-knit RV community of Latinx families carved out fragile stability in the shadow of San Francisco’s housing crisis.

2 weeks ago | eltecolote.org | Yesica Prado |Erika Carlos

For years, dozens of working-class families living in RVs along Winston Drive built a stable, self-reliant community on San Francisco’s west side. But in 2024, new city policies tore it apart. An El Tecolote investigation — based on thousands of internal emails, city records and firsthand accounts — reveals how officials quietly coordinated a crackdown, using parking laws and construction projects to push out RV residents even when safe alternatives didn’t exist.

2 weeks ago | eltecolote.org | Ian Firstenberg

A principios de junio, el alcalde Daniel Lurie presentó un plan de presupuesto para los próximos dos años que incluye recortes por $185 millones. Con esto, busca reducir el déficit de 800 millones que enfrenta San Francisco. Pero detrás de los números hay una realidad dura: este presupuesto deja sin apoyo a las personas más vulnerables de la ciudad, mientras sigue protegiendo a quienes ya tienen poder.

3 weeks ago | eltecolote.org | Ian Firstenberg

Earlier this month, Mayor Daniel Lurie released a two-year budget proposal that slashes $185 million in spending in an attempt to close San Francisco’s projected $800 million deficit. But behind the numbers lies a brutal truth: this budget abandons the city’s most vulnerable residents while protecting the powerful. Three major cuts target labor standards enforcement, public works and homelessness services. Each one strikes at the heart of San Francisco’s working-class and immigrant communities.

1 month ago | eltecolote.org | Mariana Duran

From feathered danzantes to folkloric dancers in billowing skirts, dozens of performance troupes filled the streets of the Mission District on Sunday for San Francisco’s 47th annual Carnaval parade. This year’s theme, AfroMundo, centered the African diaspora — highlighting the deep cultural ties between Black and Latin American traditions through music and dance. Thousands of San Franciscans lined sidewalks to take in the spectacle.