Growth Archives - Page 25 of 36

News + Politics

Developer allies again try to take over Sierra Club

Tim Redmond - November 28, 2016

For years, the San Francisco chapter of the Sierra Club has been part of a progressive environmental movement. The Club has worked on clean...

News + Politics

Afraid — and fighting

Kate Redmond - November 14, 2016

Like so many Americans, I woke up on November 9th excited to hear that for the first time in the history of our nation,...

Arts + Culture

Toys for trans men? Angel delivers

Caitlin Donohue - November 3, 2016

Porn star Buck Angel says he was shopping the idea for the Buck Off around for years before anyone would take a chance on a...

News + Politics

Why Prop. X is needed to save PDR

Zelda Bronstein - October 22, 2016

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...

News + Politics

Who is moving into — and out of — SF?

Peter Cohen, Fernando Marti, and Max Arnell - October 17, 2016

Everywhere in San Francisco today, people are talking about the housing crisis. You can’t turn on the radio or read the news or see...

News + Politics

Police union helps pay for Arce literature

Tim Redmond - October 14, 2016

Guess who is funding those brand-new Josh Arce for supervisor signs and fliers that we’re seeing in District 9? The cops, Dede Wilsey, and mega...

News + Politics

The Agenda, Oct. 10-17: Should we celebrate the Twitter tax break?

Tim Redmond - October 9, 2016

I am glad, I suppose, that there’s nice art coming to mid-Market to “spur curiosity and connection.” Five years after the Twitter tax break,...

Uncategorized

Obama’s supply-side toolkit attacks local housing policy

Calvin Welch - October 4, 2016

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

News + Politics

The Agenda: Rose Pak, the devastation of the Eastern Neighborhoods ….

Tim Redmond - September 18, 2016

Gordon Chin, a founder and former director of the Chinatown Community Development Center, notes in his book Building Community, Chinatown Style, that for Rose...

News + Politics

Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

Zelda Bronstein - September 2, 2016

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...

Tagged with: Growth

News

Politics

Arts

Culture