Friday, May 3, 2024

Tagged with: Economy

Company Town: Tech vs. grassroots on the screen

SCREEN GRABS It’s hard to imagine that the Aaron Peskin-Julie Christensen election was just a year ago. Back then, the mayor was heavily involved...

Why Prop. X is needed to save PDR

San Francisco’s artists, small blue-collar businesses, and community-serving nonprofits are being forced out of the city by soaring rents; outright evictions; and, in many...

Obama’s supply-side toolkit attacks local housing policy

On September 27th the Obama administration released a "Housing Development Toolkit" promoting a deregulation program for market rate housing development at the local level....

Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

On August 10, Kate Vershov Downing, a 31-year-old intellectual-property lawyer, set the media aflutter when she posted on Medium a letter to the Palo...

The developers are wrong: CEQA doesn’t stop housing

Developers see the California Environmental Quality Act as some sort of Great Satan, the source of pretty much everything that’s wrong with the state....

The Agenda, Aug15-21: The DCCC, Republican donors, and the supes races …

I am intrigued that a New York Times columnist is startled at the lack of growth in much of the world and the resulting...

Protesters demand tech workers stop trying to evict teacher

On a narrow sidewalk in front of the headquarters of MUBI, an online cinema company, a small gathering of people with big drums and...

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...

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...

Breaking: Evil accreditor that tried to shut down City College faces its own demise

The much-despised accreditor that tried, and failed, to put City College out of business is about go out of business itself. The Accrediting Commission for...