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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.

The Agenda

Supes face key affordable housing vote

November 28, 2021

Plus: more taxpayer dollars for bad cops, and 248 people locked up beyond the legal time for a speedy trial because SF courts are lagging ... that's The Agenda for Nov. 29-Dec. 5

Housing

Lawsuit seeks to block Plan Bay Area 2050—and prevent gentrification

November 28, 2021

Petition argues that the sweeping regional planning proposal would displace tens of thousands of vulnerable residents in the name of more high-end development.

Housing

Breed seeks to undermine support for new affordable housing money

November 22, 2021

Mayor London Breed is trying to undermine an effort to add more money to the city budget for social housing and rent relief and...

Housing

Local control of all land-use decisions could wind up on fall 2022 ballot

November 21, 2021

Backers of a sweeping measure to block the state from mandating housing or other zoning rules are gathering signatures; it could have huge implications.

Crime

Boudin recall ad features paid staffers and a scandal-plagued former DA

November 19, 2021

Why don't the local media, so happy to attack the DA, fact-check an ad that is blatantly false and kind of ridiculous?

Homelessness

Politics killed a homeless drop-in center, supes hearing shows

November 19, 2021

Mayor's Office cancelled project the same day Breed told a conservative group in the Haight that 'it's not going to happen.'

Protest

Rittenhouse verdict: ‘If he were Black he would be going away for life’

November 19, 2021

Cat Brooks, Justice Teams Network director, responds to the jury in Kenosha

Housing

Preston seeks $64 million, now, for social housing purchases

November 16, 2021

The city has the cash to buy buildings that are at risk for speculation and evictions, which could have a huge impact on displacement.

Housing

Castro eviction battle shows total failure of state housing laws

November 15, 2021

The abuse of the Ellis Act is a total disgrace—and the city needs to move faster to buy at-risk buildings, protesters say.

Housing

Poll shows SF voters don’t believe market-rate housing will help crisis

November 15, 2021

Clear majorities say the city should protect vulnerable communities from luxury housing that causes displacement.