The Chronicle

About this Author

Heather Knight has worked for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1999 and has covered the San Francisco political scene out of The Chronicle’s City Hall bureau since 2006. She writes the paper’s On San Francisco column, covering everything from politics to homelessness to family flight and the quirks of living in the best city in the world. She believes in holding politicians accountable for their decisions or, often, lack thereof – and telling the stories of real people and their struggles. Before joining the City Hall team, she covered the San Francisco public schools including spending a year at Malcolm X Academy in Hunters Point. She previously wrote for Newsday in New York and for the Los Angeles Times’ Washington, D.C. Bureau as a student at Stanford University. She is a Northern California native who lives in the city’s Glen Park neighborhood with her husband and two sons.