Tim Redmond

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Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian. He is the founder of 48hills.

COVID

The dangerous, inaccurate reporting on homelessness and the COVID crisis

May 7, 2020

Take some salacious information, add a single person with a point of view, and suddenly you have a major international story – that can...

Housing

Can a federal lawsuit force SF to put homeless people in hotels?

May 5, 2020

Hastings College of the Law, which has often been at odds with the city, filed a federal lawsuit yesterday claiming that failures in city...

Housing

Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?

May 4, 2020

While the supervisors and the mayor are engaged in a critical, and bitter, debate about moving homeless people into hotels, the Planning Department is...

News + Politics

Homeless women take over vacant house in the Castro

May 1, 2020

Two unhoused women took over a vacant building in the Castro today, sparking a massive police response, at least one arrest – and renewed...

News + Politics

Supes have plan to staff hotel rooms — but mayor ignores it

April 30, 2020

Sup. Matt Haney, with the support of four of his colleagues, put forward a plan this week to address the staffing needs that the...

News + Politics

Judge excoriates ICE, orders inmates released

April 29, 2020

After a dramatic hearing in which Federal Judge Vincent Chhabria sharply criticized ICE, the judge has issued an order requiring the federal agency to...

Housing

Supes denounce mayor’s failure to follow the law

April 27, 2020

Five members of the Board of Supes are furious that Mayor London Breed is refusing to follow the law and put most of the...

Housing

Mayor defies supes, says she won’t open hotel rooms for all homeless

April 26, 2020

Mayor London Breed announced this weekend that she is not going to sign – or apparently abide by – legislation requiring the city to...

News + Politics

Breed Administration moves only 36 more homeless people into hotel rooms

April 23, 2020

Four days before a legal mandate to provide more than 8,000 hotel rooms for homeless people at risk of COVID-19, the Breed Administration this...

News + Politics

Preston seeks to end Muni ‘price gouging’

April 22, 2020

Sup. Dean Preston, who helped spearhead opposition to a Muni fare hike, took a new and novel approach today: He asked the city attorney to...

Tim Redmond

The dangerous, inaccurate reporting on homelessness and the COVID crisis

Can a federal lawsuit force SF to put homeless people in hotels?

Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?

Homeless women take over vacant house in the Castro

Supes have plan to staff hotel rooms — but mayor ignores it

Judge excoriates ICE, orders inmates released

Supes denounce mayor’s failure to follow the law

Mayor defies supes, says she won’t open hotel rooms for all homeless

Breed Administration moves only 36 more homeless people into hotel rooms

Preston seeks to end Muni ‘price gouging’

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