Housing

The creepy sleeping pods might not even be legal

Apartment bidding wars are a problem, too—and the city can put an end to it

Housing Tim Redmond - December 9, 2025

Rich Family Zoning Plan faces CEQA suit

The city relied on a three-year-old EIR for a different project; will that survive a court challenge?

Housing Tim Redmond - December 4, 2025

SF’s plan for crime and unhoused people looks more and more like Trump’s every day

Mayor's plans seem awfully similar to Trump executive orders

Homelessness Tim Redmond - December 3, 2025

Rich Family Zoning Plan passes, 7-4

To say this creates affordable housing is a wild fantasy. Yet Lurie's allies all lined up against tenants and vulnerable communities.

Housing Tim Redmond - December 2, 2025

Homelessness

Supes toss homeless advocate off the oversight commission she helped create

Tim Redmond - November 18, 2025

Move signals a shift away from the 'housing first' model, which has proven effective all over the country

Housing

Supes panel refuses to protect existing housing from demolitions

Tim Redmond - November 17, 2025

Rich Family Zoning Plan moves forward, without tenant or small business protections

Housing

Is Chris Elmendorf a ‘folk economist?’

Zelda Bronstein - November 12, 2025

The Yimby champion is now attacking planners who supposedly don't know economics—but it appears that this law professor doesn't either.

Housing

Rich Family Zoning Plan delayed again as data shows it will not lower rents

Tim Redmond - November 4, 2025

State Sen. Scott Wiener was (finally) front and center in the debate over a plan that has no funding or provisions for affordable housing

Homelessness

Dorsey pushes an end to Housing First—and an end to controls on government spying

Tim Redmond - November 4, 2025

Supes oust Prop. C author from commission as Dorsey calls for an end to tight limits on surveillance technology

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Housing

New study makes clear: The Wiener-Lurie plan will NOT bring down housing prices

Tim Redmond - October 31, 2025

The Yimbys are furious that a new report says upzoning won't produce much new housing. The bigger story is that it will fail to produce affordability

Housing

The surreal world of the supes and the Lurie [Rich] Family Zoning Plan

Tim Redmond - October 21, 2025

Are real estate speculators going to make housing affordable? Or is Scott Wiener forcing us to displace existing vulnerable communities?

Housing

Protesting Donald Trump is not enough

Tim Redmond - October 20, 2025

We need to demand elected officials address economic inequality at every level—including here at home

Housing

A pro-growth Yimby ally has some untimely questions about Wiener’s new bill

Zelda Bronstein - October 19, 2025

Veteran planner Bill Fulton is all about more housing, but he isn't sure that SB 79 will work. He could have said that sooner.

Housing

Berkeley’s city planning ‘cancel culture’

Zelda Bronstein - October 9, 2025

Small shops and the public cut out of the process of upzoning three neighborhoods

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Drug policy

Dorsey wants to block city funding for supportive housing that isn’t drug-free

Tim Redmond - October 7, 2025

Bill is a direct challenge to years of data-driven policy that focuses on 'housing first' and harm reduction

Homelessness

Catch a new film about the brutality of sweeps and attacks on the unhoused

Tiny - October 7, 2025

With no love from Hollywood, 'Crushing Wheelchairs' gets two Bay Area screenings

Housing

New study shows why Lurie’s zoning plan will never make housing affordable

Tim Redmond - September 24, 2025

Detailed housing data from 2015 to 2022 shows that developers aren't building what the city needs—and are damaging vulnerable communities

News + Politics

Watch: 48 Hills’ Tim Redmond talks Engardio recall, ‘family zoning plan’ on Doomloop Dispatch

Tim Redmond - September 24, 2025

Our editor appeared on the podcast to delve into the roots of the housing crisis and discuss how to fight another tech takeover.

Housing

The bizarre incompetence of Wiener’s SB 79

Michael Barnes - September 22, 2025

Do that math: This will never work. And it undermines all the twisted efforts cities are making to comply with RHNA

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Housing

The creepy sleeping pods might not even be legal

Rich Family Zoning Plan faces CEQA suit

SF’s plan for crime and unhoused people looks more and more like Trump’s every day

Rich Family Zoning Plan passes, 7-4

Supes toss homeless advocate off the oversight commission she helped create

Supes panel refuses to protect existing housing from demolitions

Is Chris Elmendorf a ‘folk economist?’

Rich Family Zoning Plan delayed again as data shows it will not lower rents

Dorsey pushes an end to Housing First—and an end to controls on government spying

New study makes clear: The Wiener-Lurie plan will NOT bring down housing prices

The surreal world of the supes and the Lurie [Rich] Family Zoning Plan

Protesting Donald Trump is not enough

A pro-growth Yimby ally has some untimely questions about Wiener’s new bill

Berkeley’s city planning ‘cancel culture’

Dorsey wants to block city funding for supportive housing that isn’t drug-free

Catch a new film about the brutality of sweeps and attacks on the unhoused

New study shows why Lurie’s zoning plan will never make housing affordable

Watch: 48 Hills’ Tim Redmond talks Engardio recall, ‘family zoning plan’ on Doomloop Dispatch

The bizarre incompetence of Wiener’s SB 79

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