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Tagged with: Growth

Will there be a mayor’s race in 2015?

  By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 2, 2014 – With Mark Leno officially taking himself out of the 2015 mayor’s race, there’s a real possibility that Mayor...

Could there be a Grand Bargain solution to the housing crisis?

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 1, 2014 -- You talk about housing in this city, you get lots of response. And when you suggest something as...

Oh great. Now the housing crisis can’t be solved. And the tech folks are afraid to talk in public

By Tim Redmond NOVEMBER 20, 2014 – You know the housing crisis in San Francisco has gone from insane to absurd when the City Planning...

Ted Gullicksen, tenant organizer, dead at 61

By Tim Redmond OCTOBER 14, 2014 -- The day just gets worse. I spent much of the afternoon taking press calls and talking about the tragedy...

Will the “growth wars” ever end? Well, maybe not

By Zelda Bronstein OCTOBER 13, 2014 -- Every month, the law firm of Reuben, Junius & Rose hosts a lunchtime forum called the Real Estate...

Airbnb battle — and it will be a battle –heads for Board of Supervisors

By Tim Redmond OCTOBER 1, 2104 -- The remarkable thing about the Land Use Committee’s decision on Airbnb Monday was how few substantive amendments were...

Get ready for the attack on Prop. M. Because it’s coming

  By Tim Redmond SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 – In San Francisco, important political signals often lurk in the shadows. Powerful interests don’t come out and announce...

Poll slams city planning — and suggests the voters are ready for a new approach to development

By Tim Redmond SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 -- Mayor Ed Lee’s Planning Department gets poor marks for its response to the city’s development boom, and a...

Tax-break tech hiring a bust in the Tenderloin

By Tom Carter, Mark Hedin and Geoff Link SEPT 15, 2014 – When the Twitter tax break was signed, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s office...

Willie Brown denounces SF government, SF electorate, democratic process at Chamber of Commerce event

By Zelda Bronstein SEPTEMBER 11, 2014 -- Yesterday morning the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce hosted Wells Fargo’s ForecastSF 2014, described in the program as...