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Activists warn of a new landlord scam: Seismic upgrade evictions

Tim Redmond - April 21, 2019

A relatively obscure hearing at the Board of Appeals this week shed some important light on the preservation of rental housing and a potential...

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BREAKING: Breed’s Rent Board appointee resigns

Tim Redmond - April 19, 2019

Reese Isbell, Mayor London Breed’s recent appointment to the Rent Board, resigned that position this afternoon, meaning the full Board of Supes won’t be...

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The SF supes’ salvo against Wiener’s housing deregulation bill

Tim Redmond - April 12, 2019

The story hasn’t received much news media attention, in part because it came as no surprise, but the Board of Supes this week decided,...

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Supes reject plan that would shadow Soma park

Tim Redmond - April 9, 2019

The Board of Supes unanimously rejected today a proposal that would have allowed a market-rate housing development to cast a shadow on a South...

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The bizarre argument in favor of Wiener’s housing bill

Tim Redmond - April 7, 2019

A Board of Supes committee has passed a resolution opposing SB 50, the Scott Wiener bill that would allow a lot more market-rate housing...

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Critical housing measure comes to the board of supes

Tim Redmond - April 3, 2019

The Board of Supes Government Audit and Oversight Committee will consider Thursday/4 a resolution that could put the board in direct opposition to the mayor...

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How to take housing out of the private market

Tim Redmond - March 31, 2019

Go through any of the real-estate-listings databases, and you’ll see dozens of small rental properties – typically places with four-to-six units – on the...

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Homeless people — in cages

Tiny - March 23, 2019

Here lies the unhoused soldier Killed in the undeclared war on the poor Just tryin to survive outside -- to hide on a bus bench, away from your...

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How the Twitter tax break continues to damage San Francisco …

Tim Redmond - March 10, 2019

The long-term impact of the Twitter tax break was never going to be the money that came in or was lost by the city...

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The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

Tiny - March 6, 2019

No matter how many times you “sweep” me,“arrest me,” or “study me, it doesn’t give me a home. In 1984, when I was 11 and...

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Activists warn of a new landlord scam: Seismic upgrade evictions

BREAKING: Breed’s Rent Board appointee resigns

The SF supes’ salvo against Wiener’s housing deregulation bill

Supes reject plan that would shadow Soma park

The bizarre argument in favor of Wiener’s housing bill

Critical housing measure comes to the board of supes

How to take housing out of the private market

Homeless people — in cages

How the Twitter tax break continues to damage San Francisco …

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

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