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Sup. Preston calls for permanent ban on evictions due to COVID-related rent debt

Tim Redmond - April 14, 2020

Sup. Dean Preston is moving to ensure that tenants who are impacted by COVID-19 don’t wind up getting evicted after the crisis is over. Preston...

Housing

An emergency platform for protecting unhoused people

Tim Redmond - March 19, 2020

The Coalition on Homelessness just put out an emergency policy platform to protecting unhoused people from COVID-19. You can sign the petition to show...

Housing

Could SF take over thousands of rent-controlled apartments?

Sam Lew - January 27, 2020

Supervisor Dean Preston is demanding that one of San Francisco’s biggest landlords, Veritas Investments, halt the sale of 76 buildings in the hope that...

Housing

Protesters shut down Wiener at SB50 press conference

Sam Lew - January 7, 2020

A group of homeless mothers and their supporters shut down California State Senator Scott Wiener’s press conference announcing the reintroduction of the contentious housing...

Housing

Supes look to protect tenants while planners make the housing crisis worse

Tim Redmond - November 30, 2019

UPDATE: The item on the Hines tower has been updated to reflect new numbers. Sup. Matt Haney is pushing legislation that would extend eviction protections...

News + Politics

Housing Rights Committee celebrates 40 years of fighting for renters

Tim Redmond - September 17, 2019

In 1979, San Francisco had just passed its first rent-control ordinance – and tenant groups were starting to emerge to protect that law. Among...

News + Politics

Eviction, elder abuse, and homelessness

Tiny - July 30, 2019

“I am being evicted from the home I was evicted to. I don’t know where to go now. I want to come back to...

News + Politics

SF rent control turns 40

Jennifer Fieber - June 4, 2019

Sometimes even long-time San Franciscans take the city's rent control regulations for granted, but we need to remember that we have tenant projections today...

News + Politics

BREAKING: Breed’s Rent Board appointee resigns

Tim Redmond - April 19, 2019

Reese Isbell, Mayor London Breed’s recent appointment to the Rent Board, resigned that position this afternoon, meaning the full Board of Supes won’t be...

News + Politics

Supes vote on Breed’s Rent Board appointee will be political test

Tim Redmond - April 18, 2019

The full Board of Supes will be voting Tuesday/23 on the appointment of a supporter of Mayor Breed who has little connection with the...

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Sup. Preston calls for permanent ban on evictions due to COVID-related rent debt

An emergency platform for protecting unhoused people

Could SF take over thousands of rent-controlled apartments?

Protesters shut down Wiener at SB50 press conference

Supes look to protect tenants while planners make the housing crisis worse

Housing Rights Committee celebrates 40 years of fighting for renters

Eviction, elder abuse, and homelessness

SF rent control turns 40

BREAKING: Breed’s Rent Board appointee resigns

Supes vote on Breed’s Rent Board appointee will be political test

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