Friday, May 3, 2024

Tagged with: Developers

Why are so many people homeless in SF?

Editors note: The SF Chronicle is leading an effort to get local news media to report on homelessness this week. We are happy to...

San Francisco residents demand resources to address housing crisis

Coalitions of community, racial and economic justice, and housing groups including Jobs with Justice, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, Mission Economic Development...

The Agenda, June 20-27: The budget battle begins

It’s all about the budget this week. For months, the supes Budget and Finance Committee has been holding hearings and going over department needs and...

Illegal office conversion: A case study

At the May 18 meeting of the San Francisco Board of Appeals, attorney James Reuben, a principal of Reuben, Junius & Rose, showed why...

Terrible housing bill slowed down — for now

California came within days of adopting a law that would have taken away the right of the public to have a hearing about major...

$1 million in tech and real-estate money pours into June SF election

The tide of tech and real-estate money flowing into the June 7th San Francisco election is now at more than $1 million, a stunning...

A terrible housing bill looms in Sacramento

The State Assembly may vote as early as Monday on a bill that would give real estate developers a huge windfall at the expense...

Why allowing more housing makes property more expensive

Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, director of the Housing Rights Committee, stood on the steps of City Hall yesterday morning and explained why allowing the free market...

A real answer to the mayor’s (latest) bogus housing plan

Market based “solutions” to our housing affordability crisis come and go like spring fashions; only the crisis persists. Eight years ago, it was removing maximum...

The Agenda, May 16-22: Big, ugly luxury housing projects in the Mission and the Tenderloin….

The local news media made a big deal of the legal thrashing that Federal Judge Charles Breyer gave to an SF police officer who,...