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Tracey Mixon, who works at the Coalition on Homelessness, experienced homelessness herself for more than a year after she and her daughter were forced to leave their Hayes Valley apartment in 2018. Here she stands in front her apartment building, the Eddy Taylor Family Apartments in the Tenderloin. (Craig Lee/The Examiner)

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Hot spot policing is based on police eliminating the major areas of public drug dealing. In today’s Tenderloin this would be the 600 block of Eddy, Willow Alley, Jones and McAllister, the 300 block of Hyde and the 400 block of Eddy. (Courtesy BeyondChron)

San Francisco can quickly end Tenderloin drug dealing

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The Zara store in Union Square was boarded up, yet busy, on Black Friday. (Benjamin Schneider/SF Examiner)

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Bay Area murder and robbery spike reveals shortcomings of ‘defund’ argument

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