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Housing

Tenants go to landlords’ house and ask them to call off Ellis Act eviction

Residents want Pierre and Tracy Malak to sell the 19th Street apartment building to a city-backed nonprofit so they won't lose their longtime homes.

Monster in the Mission is now 100 percent affordable housing

Community activists were not 'anti-housing,' They were anti-displacement, and they won.

Preston proposes a tax on vacant apartments

With 40,000 empty units in the city, taxing speculators and greedy landlords might bring 5,000 more homes onto the market—and pay for affordable housing.

SF to close four more SIP hotels, putting hundreds of unhoused at risk

The feds are still paying, so why the rush to put people on the streets or in congregate shelters?

Ten percent of SF housing is vacant, a new report shows

The number of condos that are sold but never occupied has soared in the past five years, suggesting that letting developers build freely doesn't really help the crisis.

A houseless woman gives birth in a porta potty in Oakland—and the baby lives

No pre-natal care. Nowhere to go. And yet, thanks to community action, mama and child are okay.

Why SF needs to implement the homeless CART team—now

A community-based alternative response for homeless people —instead of the cops—is an inexpensive and better idea than the mayor's Tenderloin plan.

Are ADUs affordable housing?

The NYT says yes—but even the Chron agrees that the data shows these units are not a very effective way to address the housing crisis.

Yimby Law sues city over project that likely will never get built anyway

It's a good PR stunt, but it's not going to create any new housing anytime soon.

Breed’s office denies reality in hearing on Tenderloin state of emergency

There's not much available housing. There's not enough medical care. And the mayor's staff denies that the city even does homeless sweeps. Oh: But the cops are making more busts.

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