Press inquiries:
Christopher Gil
Associate Director of Marketing & Communications
Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA)
(415) 282-3334 ext. 152
cgil@medasf.org
11/17/20 – GM Authority
Cruise Hosts Inaugural FutureWorks Week Social Impact Program
11/13/20 – Mission Local
Neighborhood Notes: No-Interest Business Loans
11/13/20 – Next City
Housing in Brief
11/12/20 – San Francisco News
SF HELP Providing Relief For Small Businesses
11/10/20 – JPMorgan Chase & Co. News & Stories
Supporting Small Businesses & Nonprofits During the COVID-19 Pandemic
11/10/20 – Patch
Mayor London Breed Announces $3.5 Million Expansion In Financial Relief For Small Businesses
11/6/20 – Mission Local
An Affordable Housing Boomlet is Coming to the Mission
10/29/20 – Bisnow
CRE Players Push Back On Proposed Transfer Tax Change
10/24/20 – Real Estate Break
Seventh 100 Percent Affordable Apartment Building Breaks Ground in Mission District
10/23/20 – Mission Local
Seventh 100 Percent Affordable Apartment Building Breaks Ground in Mission District
10/14/20 – Mission Local
Restaurants and Shops the Mission District has Lost
10/13/20 – Radio Bilingüe (audio)
La Precaria Situación de las Pequeñas Empresas
10/11/20 – San Francisco Chronicle
California’s Equity Metric Aims to Protect Vulnerable Communities. But Will Small Businesses Suffer?
10/11/20 – Mission Local
Right to Recover Set to Improve after Initially Failing to Meet Public Health Goal
10/5/20 – Bisnow
Housing Advocates Await Plan For Newly Released $500M
10/1/20 – San Francisco Chronicle
Opponents of S.F. Real Estate Tax Measure Raise Over $2 Million. Here’s Why
9/30/20 – ABC-7 KGO (minute 23:44)
MEDA Helping Latino Businesses During COVID-19
9/28/20 – Mission Local
Essential Immigrant Workers March and Rally for More Resources to Battle COVID-19
9/24/20 – Mission Local
Mayor Breed Finds $28.5 Million to Focus on Persistently High COVID-19 Rates in Latinx Population
9/24/20 – Yahoo! Finance
FHLBank San Francisco Awards $3.5 Million in Grants for Pandemic Relief and Economic Development to 97 Nonprofit Organizations
9/24/20 – GlobeNewswire
FHLBank San Francisco Awards $3.5 Million in Grants for Pandemic Relief and Economic Development to 97 Nonprofit Organizations
9/18/20 – Mission Local
Mantra “Follow the Data and Science” to Crush COVID-19 Falls Short for Latinx and Southeast San Francisco
9/17-20 – EdSource (op-ed)
America’s Economic Recovery Will Stall Without Child-Care Relief
9/17./20 – Forbes
How San Francisco’s Tenant Protection Policy Is Stabilizing Low-Income Communities
9/15/20 – Bay Area Reporter
SF LGBTQ Bar El Rio Awarded HRC, Showtime Grant
9/14/20 – Mission Local
A 2010 Exhibit with Mission Icons was “a Snapshot of a Time and Place”
9/10/20 – El Tecolote
The Time to Fill Out the Census 2020 is Now
9/4/20 – San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area Counties are Poised to Reopen Again. Have They Learned from Past Mistakes?
8/12/20 – Mission Local
City Grant Programs Help Mission Businesses Hold On
8/7/20 – POLITICO
California Communities Begin Paying Coronavirus Patients to Stay Home from Work
8/5/20 – The Frisc
San Francisco Has Tech, That’s the Good News. The Bad News Is Our Economic Outlook Looks Dark Everywhere Else
8/4/20 – San Francisco Examiner (op-ed)
It’s Going to Get Even Worse for California’s Latinos Unless the U.S. Senate Acts Swiftly Around HEROES Act
8/3/20 – Yes! Solutions Journalism
How Cities Are Keeping People in Their Homes
7/21/20 – Bloomberg/CityLab
Tracing the Invisible Danger of Household Crowding
(Mission Promise Neighborhood community member Abraham Gonzalez)
7/14/20 – Next City
Why More Cities Are Hoping to Give Tenants the Chance to Purchase Their Buildings
7/10/20 – Patch
Mayor London Breed Announces New Mobile Testing Site In The Mission and Right to Recover Program
7/2/20 – KTVU
SF Supervisor Launches Program to Provide Wages for COVID-19 Positive Workers
7/2/20 – NBC Bay Area
SF Supervisor Launches Wage Program for COVID-19 Positive Workers
7/2/20 – Planetizen
Right-to-Purchase Policy Empowers Tenants in San Francisco, Fights Gentrification
7/1/20 – SF Weekly
SF Program Pays COVID-19 Patients to Stay Home
6/30/20 – High Country News
The Housing Policy That’s Turning Back Gentrification
6/29/20 – Mission Local
SF Will Distribute $2 Million to COVID-Positive Residents and Workers Without a Safety Net
6/26/20 – Radio New Zealand
Earthquake Design: Beyond Code
6/18/20 – Next City
The Power of Loan Guarantees
6/10/20 – San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Latinos Ask Mayor for Help as the Coronavirus Soars in that Group
6/8/20 – Small Business Exchange
Mayor London Breed Announces Expansion in Financial Relief for Small Businesses Impacted by COVID-19
6/5/20 – Mission Local
COVID-19 Business Loans
6/4/20 – Patch
Mayor London Breed Announces Expansion In Financial Relief For Small Businesses Impacted by COVID-19
6/4/20 – KGO 810
Mayor London Breed Announces Expansion in Financial Relief for Small Businesses Impacted by COVID-19
5/28/20 – Monterey County Weekly
A Rally to Support Undocumented (and Essential) Workers Shows Great Need
5/25/20 – Financial Times (MEDA client Berta Lopez)
Some Americans Fear Their Jobs Will Be Lost Forever
5/20/20 – Valuewalk
Top Banking Regulator Joseph Otting To Resign
5/17/20 – NPR America Amplified/KQED and WHYY (podcast; at minute 31)
Is There a Way Out of the Unemployment Crisis?
5/15/20 – Vida en el Valle
Harris Backs Expanded Federal Aid Package to Help Dreamers, More Immigrants
5/10/20 – San Francisco BayView
Mayor Breed Announces Neighborhood Mini-Grants to Support Small Businesses in Underserved Communities
5/8/20 – San Francisco Chronicle
Latinos’ Coronavirus Burden
5/5/20 – Next City
2008 Was A Disaster. Here’s How California Should Respond to Save Its Affordable Homes
5/4/20 – San Francisco Examiner (op-ed)
New SF HELP Loan Product for Small Businesses Provides Model for California
5/4/20 – KTVU Fox 2 News (Mission Families Relief Fund)
Immigrants Without Work Find Themselves Sleeping on San Francisco Streets
4/30/20 – SF Examiner
Aid is On the Way for CCSF Students, But Not Everyone is Eligible
4/28/20 – SF Bisnow
New Bay Area Housing Law Is Both Polarizing And Sweeping
4/28/20 – Univision (Spanish)
Trabajadores Independientes Podrán Solicitar Beneficios de Desempleo
4/25/20 – Patch
Mayor Breed Announces Neighborhood Mini-Grants To Support Small Businesses In Underserved Communities
4/15/20 – SF Weekly
Filing for Unemployment Sucks, and Language Barriers Make it Worse
4/1/20 – UnidosUS Blog
How the Coronavirus is Affecting Latinos
3/26/20 – CAFWD:
California Cradle-to-Career Collaborative Pivots to COVID-19 Response
3/25/20 – Mission Local
With the COVID-19 Crisis, Residents Without Papers Face a “Big Dark Storm”
3/21/20 – El Tecolote
Resources for the Latino Community During the COVID-19 Crisis
3/19/20 – San Francisco Examiner
Coronavirus Turmoil Adds Uncertainty to Affordable Housing Pipeline
3/16/20 – Mission Local
COVID-19: Mission District Updates March 16
3/10/20 – The Frisc
How to Make San Francisco a Great Grassroots Arts Town Again
3/2/20 – Mission Local
New Developer Takes on 17th and Mission Development — Says it May be Company’s “Last Market-Rate Project”
3/2/20 – The Registry
91-Unit Mission Dolores in San Francisco Celebrates Renewal
2/26/20 – San Francisco Business Times
First Republic Pledges Largest Contribution Yet to S.F. Housing Fund
2/14/20 – San Francisco Business Times
Historic Building with Shuttered Auto Repair Shop Lists for $11M
2/12/20 – Mission Local
Chile Lindo Celebrates 25 years with Live Music, Fundraising and Lots of Empanadas
2/9/20 – San Jose Mercury News
Moms 4 Housing-Inspired Policy Could Shake Up Oakland Real Estate Market
2/4/20 – Next City
Voters to Decide if a Vacant Storefront Tax Is Right for San Francisco
2/1/20 – Philanthropy News Digest
Community Foundation Update
1/30/20 – Streetsblog San Francisco
Transit Housing Bill, SB50, Fails for Second Time in Two Days
1/30/20 – UnidosUS blog
UnidosUS’s 2019 Affiliate of the Year MEDA Gathers More Than 50 Participants to Work Together in Building Latino Equity
1/30/20 – KPFA 94.1 Radio (audio – starts at 1:08)
Roundtable on Contentious California Housing Bill
1/29/20 – Telemundo (Spanish)
SF Ofrece Ayuda gratuita Con Preparación de Impuestos
1/28/20 – San Francisco Foundation blog
Two New Loans Will Help Create Jobs and Preserve Affordable Space for Nonprofit Tenants
1/22/20 – Telemundo (Spanish)
Ofrecen Fondos a Pequeños Negocios Latinos en San Francisco
1/21/20 – Next City
Who Has the Right to Build Wealth in a Gentrifying Neighborhood?
1/18/20 – San Francisco Business Times
SB 50 Cleared a Key Hurdle this Week. What’s Next?
1/13/20 – San Francisco Chronicle
Planning Commission President to Step Down to Run for San Francisco Supervisor
1/9/20 – Mission Local
Forty-five Units of Senior Housing Break Ground on 24th and Harrison
1/2/20 – Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon
Small Sites Program Preserves Rent Control on Third Ave.
1/1/20 – Abriendo Puertas Blog
Creating Parent Advocates in Mission Promise
1/1/20 – Yahoo! Finance
Equitable Affordability: Citi Community Development, Grounded Solutions Network Announce Community Land Trust Accelerator Fund Recipients
