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.

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A massive real-estate scam could force counties to give cash rebates to giant commercial landlords

May 17, 2020

The state Board of Equalization, a little-know agency that among other things oversees local property tax assessors, is about to consider some tax-law changes...

Housing

Public health docs duck question: Why no order to house the homeless?

May 12, 2020

The Board of Supes briefing from the Department of Public Health today was stunning – and showed just how far the Breed Administration is...

Housing

The Agenda: Why isn’t the Police Commission meeting?

May 10, 2020

Two members of the SF Police Commission are asking Mayor London Breed to allow the panel to start meeting again – and it’s past...

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...

Tim Redmond

A massive real-estate scam could force counties to give cash rebates to giant commercial landlords

Public health docs duck question: Why no order to house the homeless?

The Agenda: Why isn’t the Police Commission meeting?

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

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