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Housing — or “safe deposit boxes in the sky?”

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 29, 2014 – In the earlier days of San Francisco urban environmental movement, we talked about the “Manhattanization” of the city...

Could there be a Grand Bargain solution to the housing crisis?

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 1, 2014 -- You talk about housing in this city, you get lots of response. And when you suggest something as...

Oh great. Now the housing crisis can’t be solved. And the tech folks are afraid to talk in public

By Tim Redmond NOVEMBER 20, 2014 – You know the housing crisis in San Francisco has gone from insane to absurd when the City Planning...

Ugly condos for the very rich that block public views approved a few yards from Coit Tower

By Tim Redmond NOVEMBER 19, 2014 – The press gallery and the chambers of the Board of Supervisors were packed all afternoon yesterday as we...

Politics on Tuesday: Feinstein joins Airbnb opponents — but the bill gets final approval anyway. Plus: When is a campaign consultant a lobbyist? And...

By Tim Redmond OCTOBER 21, 2014 – Senator Dianne Feinstein, who hasn’t made a habit of getting involved in local politics of late, threw a...

At risk: 238 rent-controlled housing units

By Tim Redmond There’s a strange proposal making its way through the San Francisco planning process that would lead to the loss of 238 low-cost...

Poll slams city planning — and suggests the voters are ready for a new approach to development

By Tim Redmond SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 -- Mayor Ed Lee’s Planning Department gets poor marks for its response to the city’s development boom, and a...

The ongoing fight to save industrial space continues

By Zelda Bronstein SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 -- There’s lots of news on the light industrial/PDR (Production, Distribution, and Repair) front. On September 9, District 6 Supervisor...

Airbnb hearing shows serious problems with taxes, enforcement

By Tim Redmond SEPTEMBER 17, 2014 -- It’s remarkable that every single person supporting Airbnb at a Land Use Committee hearing on Sup. David Chiu's...

Chiu’s new Airbnb plan ignores some planning suggestions. Can it still be fixed?

By Tim Redmond SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 -- Supervisor David Chiu has introduced a new version of his Airbnb legislation in response to concerns raised by...