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OPINION: Stopping rent-hikes in affordable housing

Shamann Walton - July 10, 2018

Young Community Developers has been fighting for Bayview residents and the entire District 10 community for more than 45 years. In 2016, YCD full...

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OPINION: What went wrong June 5 — and what we can learn

Calvin Welch - June 28, 2018

Editor’s note: Progressives who supported Mark Leno or Sup. Jane Kim are looking at the results of the election and trying to figure out...

Lit

Author Amanda Huron on housing and the power of urban ‘commoning’

James Tracy - April 26, 2018

LIT Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. "explores the practice of urban 'commoning' in Washington, DC, through an investigation...

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Supes refuse to allow building owners to profit from evicting senior

Tim Redmond - April 24, 2018

The Board of Supes sent a clear message today that people who evict seniors shouldn’t get a lucrative permit to turn former apartments into...

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SF needs a mayor who will tax, spend, and regulate

Calvin Welch - April 23, 2018

Consider a short list of the realities facing our next mayor: The social/economic/cultural transformation of the city through unchecked hyper-gentrification caused by a development policy...

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Wiener upzoning bill dies in committee

Tim Redmond - April 17, 2018

State Sen. Scott Wiener’s bill that would give the state more control over local zoning and mandate taller buildings on transit corridors died in...

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Wiener’s real estate bill gets first Senate hearing

Tim Redmond - April 15, 2018

State Sen. Scott Wiener’s real-estate bill that would increase height limits across 96 percent of San Francisco faces its first hearing in the Senate...

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The myth of long-term housing “underproduction”

Tim Redmond - April 10, 2018

In an interview with Phil Matier on CBS April 1, State Sen. Scott Wiener repeated a line I’ve heard from him, and from many...

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OPINION: Strengthening CEQA to help solve the housing crisis

John Mirisch - April 9, 2018

CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act, has long been the bugaboo of developers who – surprise, surprise -- don’t like restrictions, regulations, rules or...

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Can SF get ahead of new technology? Maybe …

Tim Redmond - April 8, 2018

San Francisco is not good at figuring out how to handle new technology. When Uber and Lyft began breaking the law and operating taxis...

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OPINION: Stopping rent-hikes in affordable housing

OPINION: What went wrong June 5 — and what we can learn

Author Amanda Huron on housing and the power of urban ‘commoning’

Supes refuse to allow building owners to profit from evicting senior

SF needs a mayor who will tax, spend, and regulate

Wiener upzoning bill dies in committee

Wiener’s real estate bill gets first Senate hearing

The myth of long-term housing “underproduction”

OPINION: Strengthening CEQA to help solve the housing crisis

Can SF get ahead of new technology? Maybe …

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