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Several educational organizations also applied for loans, including Mills College and Golden Gate University. The latter is “still evaluating the evolving criteria surrounding its use” and has not yet determined “how, or if, we might use it,” a Golden Gate spokesman said via email. As The Chronicle previously reported, several large charter school operators got loans exceeding $5 million, including Education for Change and Summit Public Schools. … [Read more...] about These Bay Area companies got the biggest PPP loans

AB5, the California gig-work law enacted this year, makes it much harder for companies to decline to classify workers as employees, which costs them much more. Uber and rival Lyft say their business models rely on the flexiblity of drivers being independent contractors. … [Read more...] about Uber’s name-your-price feature for drivers hits Bay Area

A: It’s unclear. While these emergency rules effectively put evictions on hold at least through the summer, they do not “establish any new tenant rights or defenses to an eviction, address requirements for notifying landlords or providing documentation when tenants are unable to pay rent due to loss of income or other coronavirus-related reasons, or address how repayment will be handled,” according to the San Francisco Tenants Union. It is likely the state legislature will eventually address those issues. … [Read more...] about Coronavirus housing and eviction rules: What Bay Area renters and landlords need to know

So, how could we use this moment to reshape our region for the better? That’s the question posed by the Throughline, a limited-series Chronicle project exploring the Bay Area of the not-too-distant future. Each of the next eight weeks will focus on one topic central to our Bay Area existence, from the arts to technology to social experiences, combining to form a greater narrative of what may be on the horizon. … [Read more...] about Welcome to the Throughline: A new series about the Bay Area of tomorrow

And in San Francisco, many of the neighborhoods with the highest case rates are in low-income communities of color, including Bayview-Hunters Point, Tenderloin, Excelsior, South of Market and Visitacion Valley. The only middle-income ZIP code in the city with high case rates is the Mission District, but studies have found that Latino residents there who work essential jobs are mostly the ones testing positive. … [Read more...] about Coronavirus started as a ‘great equalizer.’ Now it is defined by disparities in income and race, Bay Area data show