Ellis Act Archives

Homelessness

Here’s the most important data in the new report on homelessness in SF

Tim Redmond - August 18, 2022

A massive failure of housing policy, at the state and local level, is behind this ongoing crisis.

Housing

Planning Commission to review new Housing Element—which is based on fantasy

Tim Redmond - June 6, 2022

How do you do an environmental review of a proposal that is so far from reality that you can't take it seriously?

News + Politics

Will the city’s Climate Plan ever happen? Plus: Election Day, tech-worker dorms …

Tim Redmond - June 5, 2022

... and shelter politics, the cost of cops, and an embarrassing NYT story. That's The Agenda for June 6-13.

Housing

The state’s housing goals would require massive demolition and evictions in SF

Tim Redmond - May 31, 2022

Data shows that RHNA rules are just impossible without complete urban transformation. What was Wiener thinking?

Housing

65-year-old cancer survivor is fighting Ellis Act eviction—for the second time

Sam Lew - May 17, 2022

Community rallies around 'flower lady' as Apple engineer seeks to throw her out of her home in Bernal Heights.

The Agenda

The price of Ellis Act speculation, and how SF can help tenants survive it

Tim Redmond - May 15, 2022

Plus: How is the city going to meet its state-mandate affordable housing goals? That's The Agenda for May 16-22

LGBTQ

Castro icon Cleve Jones vows to fight dubious eviction attempt

Garrett Leahy - March 27, 2022

In a dramatic appearance at a crowded rally in the Castro, longtime queer activist and leader Cleve Jones announced Sunday that he plans to...

Housing

The stunning speculator profit in Ellis Act evictions

Tim Redmond - March 17, 2022

City report shows how much money gets made evicting tenants—and how little tenants get in relocation fees.

Housing

Tenants go to landlords’ house and ask them to call off Ellis Act eviction

Garrett Leahy - February 21, 2022

Residents want Pierre and Tracy Malak to sell the 19th Street apartment building to a city-backed nonprofit so they won't lose their longtime homes.

Housing

Supes pass key affordable housing bill with a veto-proof majority

Tim Redmond - November 30, 2021

Vote demonstrates a clear mandate that the Mayor's Office use Prop. I money for social housing.

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Here’s the most important data in the new report on homelessness in SF

Planning Commission to review new Housing Element—which is based on fantasy

Will the city’s Climate Plan ever happen? Plus: Election Day, tech-worker dorms …

The state’s housing goals would require massive demolition and evictions in SF

65-year-old cancer survivor is fighting Ellis Act eviction—for the second time

The price of Ellis Act speculation, and how SF can help tenants survive it

Castro icon Cleve Jones vows to fight dubious eviction attempt

The stunning speculator profit in Ellis Act evictions

Tenants go to landlords’ house and ask them to call off Ellis Act eviction

Supes pass key affordable housing bill with a veto-proof majority

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