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Tagged with: Evictions

Avast ye, developers! SF Mime Troupe’s ‘Treasure Island’ opens 60th season

Art mirrors Bay Area life in San Francisco Mime Troupe (SFMT)’s 60th-anniversary show, Treasure Island. Opening in Dolores Park on July 4, the play about...

The Twitter Tax Break was a bad idea

Eight years after the city decided to use tax breaks to turn central market into a tech hub, the evidence suggests that the impacts...

MIT researcher takes on 48 Hills — or maybe not

Yonah Freemark, the MIT grad student who wrote a groundbreaking study on the impacts of upzoning in Chicago, is now saying that his work...

We’ve been counted and studied. We still don’t have homes.

“Excuse me, how many of you are sleeping under there?” a nasal voice yelled into the cardboard box my mama and me were sleeping...

The real lessons from the surging numbers of homeless people on the streets of SF

The biggest takeaway from the disturbing (but not surprising) new homeless-count numbers is not that there are more homeless people on the streets. We...

Activists warn of a new landlord scam: Seismic upgrade evictions

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

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

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,...

The bizarre argument in favor of Wiener’s housing bill

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...

How to take housing out of the private market

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...

How the Twitter tax break continues to damage San Francisco …

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...