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Development

Tenants fight to save affordable homes at Plaza East

June 29, 2022

Developer wants luxury housing in Western Addition; residents fear displacement

Housing

65-year-old cancer survivor is fighting Ellis Act eviction—for the second time

May 17, 2022

Community rallies around 'flower lady' as Apple engineer seeks to throw her out of her home in Bernal Heights.

Housing

Mayor, supervisors at odds over hotel rooms for homeless

April 1, 2020

UPDATE: The first case of COVID in a homeless shelter has been reported. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday to place sheltered...

News + Politics

Immigrants sue for release from Yuba County and Mesa Verde jails

March 25, 2020

Thirteen immigrants detained at Mesa Verde Detention Center and Yuba County Jail filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday calling for their...

Housing

Five supes push to put homeless in vacant hotel rooms

March 24, 2020

Five San Francisco supervisors announced plans yesterday to house thousands of homeless residents using some of the city's 33,000 vacant hotel rooms during the...

Housing

SF heads toward eviction moratorium

March 12, 2020

Mayor London Breed said she will issue a directive to place a moratorium on evictions in the midst of the coronavirus at Tuesday’s Board...

News + Politics

City starts to plan for coronavirus in homeless and SRO communities

March 10, 2020

San Francisco will provide temporary housing to quarantine unsheltered residents or for people who live in shelters, single room occupancy hotels, or permanent supportive...

News + Politics

Fighting homeless sweeps at City Hall

February 28, 2020

Unhoused San Franciscans, service providers, and community members took over the steps of City Hall with bubbles, brooms, and tents to protest the city's...

News + Politics

Aptos students walk out for safety — and resources

February 23, 2020

“Now we rise, now we stand, for our safety, hand in hand!” These are the words that more than 100 students from Aptos Middle School...

News + Politics

Caltrans agrees to pay $2 million for destroying homeless people’s property

February 19, 2020

In a civil rights victory, Caltrans will pay $2 million for destroying homeless people’s property and will change procedures around homeless encampment evictions on...

Sam Lew

Tenants fight to save affordable homes at Plaza East

65-year-old cancer survivor is fighting Ellis Act eviction—for the second time

Mayor, supervisors at odds over hotel rooms for homeless

Immigrants sue for release from Yuba County and Mesa Verde jails

Five supes push to put homeless in vacant hotel rooms

SF heads toward eviction moratorium

City starts to plan for coronavirus in homeless and SRO communities

Fighting homeless sweeps at City Hall

Aptos students walk out for safety — and resources

Caltrans agrees to pay $2 million for destroying homeless people’s property

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