Tag: Development
Citywide tenant convention: “This is the start of a movement”
By Tim Redmond
FEB.10, 2014 -- Among the old-timers at the San Francisco tenants convention Saturday, the same question kept coming up: When was the last time we saw this...
Sue Hestor’s birthday and a lesson in SF environmental history
By Tim Redmond
I sat next to Sup. David Campos Saturday at the celebration of Sue Hestor's 70th birthday, and at one point he looked over at me and said:...
The attack on Soma: City wants to create a new downtown, wiping out culture and thousands of blue-collar jobs
By Zelda Bronstein
(first of a series on South of Market development)
Four years ago, Donny Beckwith lived and worked in San Francisco. He and his wife rented a one-bedroom apartment...
Politics on Tuesday: Can we take back City College?
By Tim Redmond
Everybody knows that state officials have taken complete control of City College – and show no signs of returning the school to the elected Board of Trustees....
SoMa tenants back anti-speculation and relocation efforts
SoMa tenants vote on proposals for a citywide initiative. Photo by Sara Bloomberg
By Sara Bloomberg
The city's fifth regional tenants convention, held on Jan. 25 just blocks away from Twitter's...
City beat: Mayor Ed Lee’s “road to Sacramento” and the impact of Google buses
By Tim Redmond
Mayor Ed Lee agreed Tuesday that the way speculators are using the Ellis Act in San Francisco is "unacceptable." He said some of the strongest words we've...
City Beat: Serial Ellis Evictors and mid-Market community benefits (or not)
A map of all the no-fault evictions in the city (antievictionmap.squarespace.com)
By Tim Redmond
I'm not a church-going sort, but at least once a year I go speak to the Unitarians,...
San Francisco’s War on Poor People
By Tim Redmond
The federal War on Poverty is 50 years old, and a lot of the news media reports are calling it a failure: The poverty rate today is...
Bad urbanism: Tech and planning forum misses the point
By Zelda Bronstein
On Jan. 7, I went to an evening panel discussion at the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association entitled “What Urban Planning Can Learn from Tech...
Bitter Carmel labor battle has roots in SF
By Marc Norton
Carmel, celebrated as an artist colony nestled above a picturesque white-sand beach, is not where you would expect to find a picket line. But there I was,...
