Housing

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

... And already, the complaints have started

Homelessness Tiny - December 22, 2025

Lurie ignored tenant groups when drafting his Muni parcel-tax proposal—and that’s a problem

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

Housing Tim Redmond - December 18, 2025

The bogus (and needless) politics of austerity

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

Housing Quintin Mecke - December 17, 2025

The dangerous fantasy of upzoning

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

Housing Fernando Marti - December 16, 2025

Housing

The creepy sleeping pods might not even be legal

Tim Redmond - December 9, 2025

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

Housing

Rich Family Zoning Plan faces CEQA suit

Tim Redmond - December 4, 2025

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

Homelessness

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

Tim Redmond - December 3, 2025

Mayor's plans seem awfully similar to Trump executive orders

Housing

Rich Family Zoning Plan passes, 7-4

Tim Redmond - December 2, 2025

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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Housing

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

Lurie ignored tenant groups when drafting his Muni parcel-tax proposal—and that’s a problem

The bogus (and needless) politics of austerity

The dangerous fantasy of upzoning

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

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