Stories about communities
What is Bay Area drag? Oaklash Festival has some wild ideas
Mainstream TV drag be damned—local luminaries revolutionize the art form in a weekend's worth of eye-popping shows.
Homeless, at the airport
The view from LaGuardia, where people hide and move along and live in a world where there's no place for poor people to go.
Supes vote on Breed’s Rent Board appointee will be political test
Are there eight votes to defy the mayor's appointment of a Rent Board member who many say is clearly unqualified?
Examined Life: On shaky ground
In a city where everyone and everything is constantly changing, we have a lot to fear. But even more to learn.
48hills sues MTC over secretive housing policy operation
We want to know how much public money went into funding a pro-developer operations aimed at promoting more market-rate housing with few protections for vulnerable communities.
Tenant representation and spy technology
Supes committee to vote on Breed's Rent Board appointee -- and on a measure to control surveillance in San Francisco (which the cops are trying to derail). That's The Agenda for April 16-21
The SF supes’ salvo against Wiener’s housing deregulation bill
A 9-2 vote against SB 50 puts SF on record against a measure that adds no new affordable housing or transit funding while encouraging more luxury housing.
The bizarre argument in favor of Wiener’s housing bill
Sup. Vallie Brown tries to make the convoluted case for letting the private market solve our housing crisis.
Critical housing measure comes to the board of supes
Mar wants the city to oppose Wiener's radical deregulation bill -- and has seven votes. Will the mayor veto?
I am not a homeless vampire
I didn't come here to be homeless. How is this okay, for so long?