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Housing

The best and worst of CA housing policy, on display at UCLA conference

Some rational discussion based on facts, and some Yimby presentations with no facts
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Supes reject illegal conversion that turned four rental units into one mansion

Critical vote not to accept Sauter deal sends a message to speculators—but there are plenty of other examples that the city has ignored
Housing Tim Redmond -
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In Oakland, a tiny-home community is forced back onto the streets

They had a modest place to live. Now they are unhoused once again. How long does this have to go on when unhoused people have solutions that work?
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Is the tide finally turning on the ‘abundance agenda?’

Two new studies show that the free market won't solve the housing crisis—and that Newsom, Lurie, and Wiener are wrong
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Supes approve affordable senior housing project—but discussion raises larger issue

Tim Redmond -
Nonprofit housers are good neighbors. Speculators are not. But Wiener's law treats both the same way
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Housing

Finally, a media breakthrough of the pro-Yimby narrative that has dominated press and politics

Zelda Bronstein -
The Washington Post, of all places, runs a story on a new study debunking the idea that more market-rate housing will bring down prices
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Housing

New study shows that deregulation is not the answer to the affordable housing crisis

Tim Redmond -
Upzoning might make SF affordable—in 100 years. Or we could address economic inequality, the real cause of the problem
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Housing

The Marina Safeway project is just a shiny bauble to distract us from real issues

Fernando Marti -
It's not family housing. It's not affordable. It may never get built anyway. Let's talk about serious housing issues
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Homelessness

A small piece of land in SF for unhoused people to build their own future …

Tiny -
... And already, the complaints have started
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Lurie ignored tenant groups when drafting his Muni parcel-tax proposal—and that’s a problem

Tim Redmond -
Allowing landlords to pass through the cost to renters creates a potential political issue for his plan—and it could easily have been avoided
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Housing

The bogus (and needless) politics of austerity

Quintin Mecke -
San Francisco doesn't need to cut money for affordable housing (or other services). There are viable solutions
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Housing

The dangerous fantasy of upzoning

Fernando Marti -
Politicians pretend to be doing something, while they refuse to address the real housing crisis.
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Housing

The creepy sleeping pods might not even be legal

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

Rich Family Zoning Plan faces CEQA suit

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

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

Tim Redmond -
Mayor's plans seem awfully similar to Trump executive orders
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Housing

Rich Family Zoning Plan passes, 7-4

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

Supes toss homeless advocate off the oversight commission she helped create

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

Supes panel refuses to protect existing housing from demolitions

Tim Redmond -
Rich Family Zoning Plan moves forward, without tenant or small business protections
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Housing

Is Chris Elmendorf a ‘folk economist?’

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