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Tenants win major victory over speculators

Tim Redmond - May 22, 2018

San Francisco tenants won a major victory today when the supes – unanimously – agreed to stop speculators like Veritas from buying buildings and...

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SF supes oppose Wiener real-estate bill

Tim Redmond - April 3, 2018

The Board of Supes voted today to oppose State Senator Scott Wiener’s real-estate bill, SB 827, which would upzone most of San Francisco. The discussion...

Tenant Troubles

Tenant Troubles: Our legal correspondent is here to answer your renter questions

Dave Crow - March 6, 2018

Editor's note: For years, tenant lawyer Dave Crow wrote a column for the SF Appeal on tenant issues. We are happy that he's back,...

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EXCLUSIVE: Tenants living in squalid conditions in building owned by SF’s largest landlord

Sana Saleem - January 25, 2018

Fe Soledad’s day begins with making sure her son Vincent is ready to go to school before she heads off to work. Everything needs...

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How we beat Airbnb

Calvin Welch - January 22, 2018

San Francisco has set another first in the annals of the tech economy: a 50% reduction in the number of Airbnb listings for the...

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Planning Commission rejects condo application after 100-year-old was evicted

Tim Redmond - January 11, 2018

The San Francisco City Planning Commission unanimously rejected an attempt by the building owners who evicted 100-year-old Iris Canada to convert their property to...

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Key rent control bill dies in Assembly committee

Tim Redmond - January 11, 2018

The effort to allow cities to impose effective rent controls failed in a state Assembly committee today after two Democrats refused to vote for...

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Will SF allow the owner who evicted a 100-year-old to get a condo conversion permit?

Tim Redmond - January 10, 2018

The SF Planning Commission is set to vote Thursday/11 on allowing the owners of the building where Iris Canada was evicted to convert to...

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Tenants call out Chiu on key rent-control measure

Tim Redmond - December 5, 2017

A group of San Francisco tenants and advocates delivered an eviction warning to Assemblymember David Chiu today, urging that he help push a repeal...

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For seniors, eviction can be a death sentence

David Bogachik - October 3, 2017

DIALOGUES FOR LIFE When I was studying to be a psychoanalyst, one of my teachers, Dr. Irma Birman, shared a recollection from her childhood...

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Tenants win major victory over speculators

SF supes oppose Wiener real-estate bill

Tenant Troubles: Our legal correspondent is here to answer your renter questions

EXCLUSIVE: Tenants living in squalid conditions in building owned by SF’s largest landlord

How we beat Airbnb

Planning Commission rejects condo application after 100-year-old was evicted

Key rent control bill dies in Assembly committee

Will SF allow the owner who evicted a 100-year-old to get a condo conversion permit?

Tenants call out Chiu on key rent-control measure

For seniors, eviction can be a death sentence

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