Housing

The violence of towing homes

I've lived through this. Taking peoples homes is a terrible approach

Homelessness Tiny - June 24, 2025

Berkeley’s Orwellian upzoning plan

New language would undermine the Citizen Participation Element of the city's General Plan

Housing Zelda Bronstein - June 23, 2025

Board of Appeals sets dangerous precedent for demolishing rental housing

Ruling could encourage speculators to ignore city preservation policy

Housing Tim Redmond - June 22, 2025

Appeals Board hearing raises key issue about protecting existing rental units

Planning Department wants to allow the removal of what evidence shows was a rent-controlled housing unit, setting a potentially dangerous precedent

Housing Tim Redmond - June 18, 2025

Homelessness

SFMTA approves rules that would evict most people living in RVs

Tim Redmond - June 17, 2025

It's inhumane. It won't work. There's massive opposition. But the commissioners voted to approve it anyway.

Housing

SF weaponizes parking rules to displace RV families: 6 takeaways from El Tecolote’s blockbuster report

Yesica Prado and Erika Carlos - June 16, 2025

Winston Drive community of working class families was torn apart in 2024—and now Mayor Lurie intensifies the crackdown.

News + Politics

Amid ICE threats, city decimates Mission District housing and food programs

Caitlin Donohue - June 12, 2025

Since late 1990s, HOMEY has worked to keep neighbors safe and healthy. After budget cuts, it's fighting for survival.

Housing

New Yimby bill would make it harder for cities to raise money for affordabe housing

Tim Redmond - June 3, 2025

Wicks measure would undermine one of the few tools cities have to tax big real-estate for housing money

Housing

The new state housing numbers, the Yimbys, and a bit of Econ 101

Michael Barnes - June 2, 2025

An economist explains what the latest data shows—and doesn't show—about the affordable housing crisis in California

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Homelessness

At a park named for indigenous people, a homeless community faces eviction

Tiny - May 25, 2025

A crackdown on Where Do We Go Berkeley in Ohlone Park raises the question: Do we all have the right to feel safe in public?

News + Politics

UPDATED: 48 Hills wins 16 California Journalism Awards

Marke B. - May 18, 2025

Our fiercely independent reporting scored awards for General Excellence, Best Column, Arts Coverage, Homeless Reporting, more

Homelessness

Sanctuaries not sweeps

Tiny - May 10, 2025

Houseless and housed communities from across the Bay stand together to resist the endless erasure of houseless peoples, demand sanctuary lands so we can build solutions

Housing

Mayor Ishii and Berkeley’s ‘Missing Middle’

Zelda Bronstein - April 30, 2025

Collaborative legislating—or a disdain for public process?

Homelessness

Fielder proposal to protect unhoused families runs into opposition from ‘moderates’

Tim Redmond - April 19, 2025

Sauter, Sherrill try to kill a measure that would give a bit of hope to some of the city's most vulnerable residents

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Housing

Planning hearing on upzoning shows the two worlds of housing advocates

Tim Redmond - April 10, 2025

Everyone wants lower prices. the Yimbys think the private market will provide it; community advocates say that doesn't work.

Housing

Conditions at a Hunters Point housing project are disgraceful—and the private operators are ducking responsibility

Tim Redmond - April 8, 2025

Hearing shows for-profit companies running Alice Griffith failed to make basic repairs, and now want a city bailout.

Homelessness

Workers, families face eviction as racetrack in Pleasanton closes abruptly

Tiny - March 31, 2025

Alameda County Fairgrounds stops horse racing—so stable workers lose their jobs, and their homes

Housing

New study by Fed economists directly contradicts Yimby narrative on housing prices

Tim Redmond - March 27, 2025

Dramatic data suggests gentrification and income inequality are far more important than 'constraints' on development as the cause of high housing prices

Housing

Planning Commission rejects landlord plan to convert SRO rooms to tourist hotel

Tim Redmond - March 20, 2025

5-2 vote sends a clear message that the city won't reward landlords for keeping affordable housing off the market.

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Housing

The violence of towing homes

Berkeley’s Orwellian upzoning plan

Board of Appeals sets dangerous precedent for demolishing rental housing

Appeals Board hearing raises key issue about protecting existing rental units

SFMTA approves rules that would evict most people living in RVs

SF weaponizes parking rules to displace RV families: 6 takeaways from El Tecolote’s blockbuster report

Amid ICE threats, city decimates Mission District housing and food programs

New Yimby bill would make it harder for cities to raise money for affordabe housing

The new state housing numbers, the Yimbys, and a bit of Econ 101

At a park named for indigenous people, a homeless community faces eviction

UPDATED: 48 Hills wins 16 California Journalism Awards

Sanctuaries not sweeps

Mayor Ishii and Berkeley’s ‘Missing Middle’

Fielder proposal to protect unhoused families runs into opposition from ‘moderates’

Planning hearing on upzoning shows the two worlds of housing advocates

Conditions at a Hunters Point housing project are disgraceful—and the private operators are ducking responsibility

Workers, families face eviction as racetrack in Pleasanton closes abruptly

New study by Fed economists directly contradicts Yimby narrative on housing prices

Planning Commission rejects landlord plan to convert SRO rooms to tourist hotel

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