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Tenderloin

2,082 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Tenderloin, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about hotels and rooming houses, taxis and garages, buildings the city rents.

Open Tenderloin on the map, with its record →

Its busiest streets

Market St120+ · Golden Gate Ave120+ · Geary St120+ · Van Ness Ave120+ · Eddy St120+ · Ellis St120+ · Mcallister St120+ · Polk St120+

What keeps coming up

  • Hotels and rooming houses208Hotels and rooming houses, concentrated in a handful of neighbourhoods.
  • Taxis and garages124Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Buildings the city rents76Space the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.
  • Housing bonds50How affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.
  • Shelters and homelessness19Shelters and supportive housing — and where the city put them.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2020s151
    Monarch Hotel on Geary Street to become a 102-unit shelter · 2025
  2. 2010s217
    $4.1M moved to renovate 440 Turk Street for homeless services · 2017
  3. 2000s134
    Mercy Properties to lease 240 Jones Street for low-income housing · 2000
  4. 1990s160
    City buys 560-570 Ellis Street for a Tenderloin recreation center · 1990
  5. 1980s185
    City to take 246-250 Eddy Street for open space · 1983
  6. 1970s95
    331-333 Turk Street bought for $178,500 as a seniors' center · 1975
  7. 1960s27
    Board approves a fire headquarters at 264 Golden Gate Avenue · 1964
  8. 1950s51
    $1.8M voted for the Geary Expressway and Webster Street widening · 1953
  9. 1940s59
    $35,000 voted for servicewomen's lodgings at 20 Jones Street · 1944
  10. 1930s177
    Bonds approved to extend Fifth Street across Market to Mason · 1937
  11. 1920s473
    Market Street land bought for the Civic Center for $112,500 · 1924
  12. 1910s224
    Jitney buses capped at 700 and barred from central Market Street · 1916
  13. 1900s129
    San Francisco Gas and Electric to install new street lights citywide · 1907

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 156 of the 2,082 on record; the rest are on its streets. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city