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.

Campaign Trail

Housing balance measure headed for March ballot

October 31, 2019

Now that Sup. Matt Haney’s jobs-housing balance bill has passed with a veto-proof majority, the next big housing fight is shaping up: Supporters of...

News + Politics

Haney’s housing bill passes 11-0

October 29, 2019

Sup. Matt Haney’s legislation forcing office developers to pay more of the cost of their affordable housing impacts passed the board 11-0 today after...

Campaign Trail

Vallie Brown’s excuses for evicting tenants were false, records show

October 29, 2019

The political mess that is Sup. Vallie Brown’s attempt to explain her eviction of African-American tenants from a building she bought on Fillmore Street...

News + Politics

As the fires rage and the blackouts continue, Newsom ducks

October 28, 2019

Gov. Gavin Newsom is sounding all harsh and tough toward PG&E as Northern California burns out of control again and the blackouts continue. At a...

The Agenda

Guess who’s a lawyer for the city’s worst planning scofflaw? (Hint: He writes for the Chron)

October 27, 2019

The City Attorney’s Office and the Planning Department just released some details of the legal settlement between the city and the Academy of Art...

News + Politics

In dramatic hearing, Haney housing measure moves forward

October 22, 2019

The Land Use and Transportation Committee yesterday moved forward a plan to increase the fee office developers pay for housing after a remarkable hearing...

Arts + Culture

Celebrate the first, the original, the best Best of the Bay

October 22, 2019

It’s getting to the point where the term “best of” is just a part of every news outlet’s annual marketing plan. Newspapers, magazines, websites,...

News + Politics

Helping seniors with legal issues — for 40 years

October 21, 2019

Sometime in the mid-1970s, as local community-based organizations were starting to emerge and change the politics of San Francisco, a group of lawyers began...

News + Politics

SF’s housing policy failure on full display this week

October 20, 2019

The city’s failure to make sure affordable housing keeps up with office growth will be on full display at the Land Use and Transportation...

News + Politics

The Chron’s robo-journalism

October 20, 2019

It looked just like so many other short news briefs in the San Francisco Chronicle; straightforward, factual, a little boring. A modest earthquake struck...