Yesica Prado
@pradoreports.bsky.social
Bilingual Investigative Reporter & Photojournalist
@eltecolotesf.bsky.social |📩 yesica@eltecolote.org | Read my reporting: https://muckrack.com/yesica-prado-2
@eltecolotesf.bsky.social |📩 yesica@eltecolote.org | Read my reporting: https://muckrack.com/yesica-prado-2
The city is moving fast to tow. A draft budget allocates $560,000 for enforcement. Yet when asked to explain the budget, lack of a grace period amid policy changes, or the criteria for the vehicle count, the Mayor's Office and the Department of Emergency Management did not provide comment.
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The city is moving fast to tow. A draft budget allocates $560,000 for enforcement. Yet when asked to explain the budget, lack of a grace period amid policy changes, or the criteria for the vehicle count, the Mayor's Office and the Department of Emergency Management did not provide comment.
Even those with permits aren't safe from other parking rules. Every day, Marlon comes home from work & checks if his RV has been cited or towed. He has lived in San Francisco for decades, but the new policy offers no refuge at all.
“I have to keep moving,” he said. “I have no other choice.”
“I have to keep moving,” he said. “I have no other choice.”
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Even those with permits aren't safe from other parking rules. Every day, Marlon comes home from work & checks if his RV has been cited or towed. He has lived in San Francisco for decades, but the new policy offers no refuge at all.
“I have to keep moving,” he said. “I have no other choice.”
“I have to keep moving,” he said. “I have no other choice.”
The city’s “Good Neighbor” rules of the permit also require something that doesn’t exist in San Francisco: a public dump station. Without it, RV residents face impossible choices: drive miles to dispose of waste, pay costly private services, or lose their permits and homes.
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The city’s “Good Neighbor” rules of the permit also require something that doesn’t exist in San Francisco: a public dump station. Without it, RV residents face impossible choices: drive miles to dispose of waste, pay costly private services, or lose their permits and homes.
Who gets left out? Our reporting found entire groups excluded from permits, including:
-People who recently arrived, fleeing immigration raids
-Those with inoperable or unregistered RVs
-Long-time residents not counted in May
-Rent RVs while seeking housing.
-Don't have a title.
-People who recently arrived, fleeing immigration raids
-Those with inoperable or unregistered RVs
-Long-time residents not counted in May
-Rent RVs while seeking housing.
-Don't have a title.
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Who gets left out? Our reporting found entire groups excluded from permits, including:
-People who recently arrived, fleeing immigration raids
-Those with inoperable or unregistered RVs
-Long-time residents not counted in May
-Rent RVs while seeking housing.
-Don't have a title.
-People who recently arrived, fleeing immigration raids
-Those with inoperable or unregistered RVs
-Long-time residents not counted in May
-Rent RVs while seeking housing.
-Don't have a title.
Internal city documents reveal chaos. City staff on proof of residency for the permit: “How far are we willing to go?” Another wrote: “I have a receipt from lunch in another city last weekend, but I don’t know if that should make me eligible for housing there.”
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Internal city documents reveal chaos. City staff on proof of residency for the permit: “How far are we willing to go?” Another wrote: “I have a receipt from lunch in another city last weekend, but I don’t know if that should make me eligible for housing there.”