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OPINION: Alarming housing bill heading for approval

Peter Cohen and Fernando Marti - July 9, 2017

Senate Bill 35, heading to Assemblymember David Chiu’s Housing and Community Development Committee Wednesday/12, is a potentially serious threat to California’s most vulnerable urban...

Arts + Culture

A gentrified language

Marke B. - June 12, 2017

Out of the fog comes a little white bus It ferries us south to the technical mouth of the bay. This is biopharma. Double...

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One homeless family’s SF nightmare

Meadow Sylvester - June 2, 2017

In 2010, my husband and I succeeded in graduating a drug program and closing our Child Protective Services case. Before our case was allowed...

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Why ABAG housing quotas lead to displacement

Thomas Lord - May 19, 2017

The Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), a product of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), assigns to each Bay Area Jurisdiction quotas of...

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Dramatic new study questions transit-oriented development

Tim Redmond - April 18, 2017

The supes decided today to once again delay a decision on the 117-unit luxury condo project at 2675 Folsom, as the developer and community...

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On the streets, after the Oakland fire

Tiny - April 7, 2017

“All fire victims will have to leave the “temporary shelter” with or without any money or housing on April 6th,” reported Audrey Candy Corn, POOR...

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La Favi reigns

Caitlin Donohue - March 6, 2017

Natalia García a.k.a. La Favi was raised in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood. She started performing as a little kid who danced in the...

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Begging and Immoral Lives: A pattern of police citations

Tim Redmond - February 23, 2017

San Francisco police have issued tens of thousands of citations for minor quality-of-life crimes in recent years, and most of them are clustered in...

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Racism — and politics — in SF Redevelopment history

John Elberling - February 22, 2017

Bad history -- even when well-intended -- gives me a headache, because it so often misses and conceals far more important truths. To wit,...

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Why SF’s City Planning Department doesn’t get it

John Elberling - February 12, 2017

There is no designated Sociologist position on the 200+ staff of San Francisco’s City Planning Department. And a bachelor/masters degree in Urban Planning can...

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