Calvin Welch, Author at 48 hills

Development

UCSF’s new hospital: A pretty building, but in the wrong place

January 12, 2022

The school's plans will make one part of the city more unlivable and the other part less healthy and wealthy.

Education

It takes a city to open the schools

February 9, 2021

Testing, tracking, vaccines -- and Muni! -- have to be part of the plan, and neoliberal leadership isn't going to help.

Opinion

SF’s economic recovery plan: Trumpism on the local level

October 13, 2020

It's all about governmental deregulation and public subsidy of private profit -- while ignoring the manifest needs of everyday people.

COVID

Density, neoliberalism, and COVID

March 31, 2020

"There is a density level in NYC that is destructive. It has to stop and it has to stop now. NYC must develop an...

Housing

Affordable housing is a great bargain for SF

March 5, 2020

A recent New York Times article, headlined "Why Does it Cost $750,000 to Build Affordable Housing in San Francisco," continues the Gray Lady's endless...

Campaign Trail

Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5

October 6, 2019

A story is unfolding in the District Five supervisor race, ignored by the news media, that illustrates the contradiction between narrative and fact that...

News + Politics

Wiener’s ‘transit-oriented development’ bill screws public transit

May 2, 2019

State Sen. Scott Wiener is promoting his housing bill, SB 50, as an example of environmental progress, since the measure is pushing transit-oriented development...

News + Politics

The Patty Hearst kidnapping and the rise of community-based organizations in SF

April 25, 2019

UPDATED, see the end. The 1974 kidnapping of Patricia “Patty” Hearst, granddaughter of the founder of the Hearst media empire, was a dramatic chapter in...

News + Politics

How the Yimbys got slaughtered in the November SF election

December 4, 2018

This was to be a banner year for San Francisco Yimbys at the polls. The group is the social-media focused, bright young face of...

News + Politics

The truth about ‘progressive’ housing policy

October 22, 2018

Randy Shaw, who runs a website called “BeyondChron,” is now writing for the Chron. In a piece that ran Oct. 21, he argues that...

Calvin Welch

UCSF’s new hospital: A pretty building, but in the wrong place

It takes a city to open the schools

SF’s economic recovery plan: Trumpism on the local level

Density, neoliberalism, and COVID

Affordable housing is a great bargain for SF

Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5

Wiener’s ‘transit-oriented development’ bill screws public transit

The Patty Hearst kidnapping and the rise of community-based organizations in SF

How the Yimbys got slaughtered in the November SF election

The truth about ‘progressive’ housing policy

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