Stories about Housing
A bright story behind the city’s new mural wave
Artist Vida Kuang grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The anti-Asian racism that ramped up at the beginning of the year followed by the...
Bill that could cost SF $50 million up for key Assembly vote
A bill that could cost San Francisco as much as $50 million in lost affordable housing money comes before a key state Assembly committee...
SF Democratic Party endorsements go (mostly) to progressives
The San Francisco Democratic Party endorsed candidates backed by the progressive wing in five of the six seats last night, with the D7 and...
City Planning (finally) admits it has a problem
The Land Use and Transportation Committee hearing this week was remarkable: For the first time ever, as far as I can remember, the Planning...
Some defining issues in the fall supes race
The San Francisco Democratic Party will vote on endorsements for the Board of Supes Wednesday/22, and while the party nod doesn’t always mean victory,...
Screen Grabs: Films that pull back the veil
The Trump regime’s egregious wrongdoing and pollutive effect on society has wound up bringing greater attention to long-term (yet rapidly worsening) woes of American...
Finally, a monument to a victim of police violence
For the first time in history, San Francisco will soon have a permanent monument to a person of color killed by the police.
I was...
Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47
Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, a fearless journalist, former legislative aide to Matt Gonzalez, and organizer with the Housing Rights Committee, died July 15, 2020. He was...
Tenants harassed by construction work during COVID
In her 27 years as a tenant on Leavenworth, Andrea Carla Michaels has had few issues with any of her landlords.
Now she is the...
The problem with ‘centrists’
The resignation of New York Times columnist Bari Weiss is all over the news, and the right-wingosphere is using it to push the demonstrably...