The shelter in place order remains in effect until April 7, and may be extended based on public health guidance. Shelter in place FAQs are updated daily, and all Public Health Orders are available online.

Today, the City released guidance for essential businesses that remain open to the public, such as grocery stores and pharmacies, to help protect employee health, reduce crowding at essential businesses, and help keep highly-trafficked spaces clean. The City is providing signage to support stay at home and social distance messaging for businesses. Additional guidance for specific groups and activities are available at sf.gov/coronavirus. 

• Many small businesses have temporarily closed as a result of our necessary public health response to COVID-19. My office worked with City departments to make sure that these already struggling businesses won’t face City fines because they had to board up their storefronts.
• The Arts Relief Program will be funded by an initial $2.5 million from the City, with philanthropic donations to come. The program will consist of a grants program and low-interest loans for artists and organizations to choose what best meets their needs.
• The President signed federal legislation Monday to support low-interest disaster loans for small businesses economically impacted by the coronavirus.

• The Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation created a COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund to provide emergency assistance to restaurant industry workers who’re in dire need of support and other resources for workers who’ve been directly impacted by the mass restaurant closings.
• The National Domestic Workers Alliance created a coronavirus care fund that provides assistance to domestic workers so that they can stay home and healthy during the coronavirus outbreak.
• One Fair Wage has created an emergency assistance fund for tipped and service workers -- meaning restaurant workers, car service drivers, delivery workers, personal service workers, etc.

• Beginning Monday March 30, all Muni rail service will be replaced with buses, and Muni Metro stations will be closed except for downtown stations serving BART. The 5R, 9R, 28R, and 38R rapid bus routes will be discontinued but local routes will continue. Keep track of Muni service and parking enforcement updates here. 
• See a full list of what City services are open, including County Clerk services at City Hall
• City Hall is closed to the public and open only to essential personnel. See more on events and weddings here.
• The Board of Supervisors held its first ever virtual meeting on Tuesday, and will continue to do so for as long as necessary, including a special meeting next Tuesday March 31. Our heartfelt thanks go to the Clerk of the Board and her incredible team for keeping the people’s business on track in these unprecedented circumstances. 
• The Department of Building Inspection is closed to the public, but reopened on Monday to resume work on essential infrastructure plan review of previously submitted projects and inspection services for essential infrastructure.
• The Planning Department is open for business remotely and staff are available by email. The Property Information Map and on-line permit center, where you can file new applications, are available 24/7.

• The City’s moratorium on residential evictions was amended Tuesday to include all no-fault evictions, other than Ellis Act evictions pending further action at the State level. The Superior Court has placed a 90 day delay on all eviction cases. The Rent Board is available for phone counseling at 415-252-4631. My office confirmed with the Rent Board that landlords and tenants may enter into written agreements for temporary rent reductions due to the emergency. 
• The Governor announced Wednesday that financial institutions will provide financial relief for homeowners, including a 90-day waivers of mortgage payments and penalty fee waivers.
• The Department of Public Health published guidance for management of single resident occupancy hotels (SROs), permanent supportive housing (PSH), and shelter or transitional housing with private rooms.
• The City has secured hundreds of private hotel rooms for temporary housing, with thousands more on the way to provide adequate space for quarantine and self-isolation for first responders at high risk of exposure, positive COVID-19 patients with mild cases, people living in shelters in SROs, and others who cannot viably shelter in place at home.

• Hospitals and clinics across the Bay Area are accepting donations of masks and medical supplies. 
• The City and nonprofit partners have launched a COVID-19 Emergency Response Volunteer Program launched to screen and train volunteers to provide assistance such as grocery shopping and mail pick-up for older and vulnerable adults. 
• Blood donations are critically needed due to closures of large-scale blood drives, and are an essential acivity under local health orders. Donations can be made on an appointment-only basis at multiple locations in San Francisco and the Bay Area, including the Red Cross (San Francisco and Oakland locations), Vitalant (2 San Francisco locations), and Stanford Blood Center (3 locations in Peninsula and South Bay). 
• The Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund, One Fair Wage’s emergency assistance fund for tipped and service workers, and the National Domestic Workers Alliance coronavirus care fund are all accepting donations. 
• The CIty’s Give2SF Fund is accepting tax-deductible monetary contributions to be spent on efforts to respond to the coronavirus outbreak, including providing shelter, food and other assistance to individuals, families, and small businesses in San Francisco that are impacted by the virus. Find out more about the fund at www.give2sf.org.