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Wearing a mask is a political statement—that you care about community

Tim Redmond - June 22, 2020

Donald Trump has – no surprise – turned a basic public-health practice into a political issue, putting millions of lives at risk. Trump has consistently...

Housing

At Midtown, loud construction disturbs shelter-in-place

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - May 27, 2020

At the Midtown housing complex in the Western Addition, tenants are doing their best to comply with the city’s shelter-in-place order, but are facing...

Housing

Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?

Tim Redmond - May 4, 2020

While the supervisors and the mayor are engaged in a critical, and bitter, debate about moving homeless people into hotels, the Planning Department is...

Housing

What, exactly, is going to get built on Geary and Masonic?

Tim Redmond - April 21, 2020

Just before the Board of Supes voted to approve a new 101-unit project on Geary and Masonic, we learned a critical piece of information: The...

Housing

Developer wants huge density bonus — should we know why?

Tim Redmond - April 19, 2020

Fascinating housing discussion last week at the Board of Supes. The issue involves a large site at Geary and Masonic that for years was...

News + Politics

Hotel rooms debate comes to the Board of Supes…

Tim Redmond - April 12, 2020

The next step in the effort by five supervisors to mandate that the city procure 8,250 hotel rooms for homeless people during the COVID-19...

Housing

Breed administration says it’s ‘not fiscally prudent’ to get homeless off the streets

Tim Redmond - April 5, 2020

A lot of people apparently have been sending emails to Trent Rhorer, the director of the Human Services Agency, because he has an auto-reply...

COVID

Density, neoliberalism, and COVID

Calvin Welch - March 31, 2020

"There is a density level in NYC that is destructive. It has to stop and it has to stop now. NYC must develop an...

News + Politics

A city line of credit to help small businesses

Tim Redmond - March 22, 2020

Almost everything at City Hall is closed, cancelled, shut down right now. That’s obviously the right thing to do. Although I must admit, it’s a...

Housing

Affordable housing is a great bargain for SF

Calvin Welch - March 5, 2020

A recent New York Times article, headlined "Why Does it Cost $750,000 to Build Affordable Housing in San Francisco," continues the Gray Lady's endless...

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Wearing a mask is a political statement—that you care about community

At Midtown, loud construction disturbs shelter-in-place

Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?

What, exactly, is going to get built on Geary and Masonic?

Developer wants huge density bonus — should we know why?

Hotel rooms debate comes to the Board of Supes…

Breed administration says it’s ‘not fiscally prudent’ to get homeless off the streets

Density, neoliberalism, and COVID

A city line of credit to help small businesses

Affordable housing is a great bargain for SF

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