Sunday, May 5, 2024

Tagged with: Housing

A bit of Breed budget trickery, and the side of the housing story that the press missed

Plus: A measure that would allow massive demolitions of existing housing. That's The Agenda for June 25 to July 2

Et Tu, Mother Jones?

Once a storied left-wing publication, the magazine is now fallen into the neoliberal Yimby camp—and the editor refuses to talk to us about it.

Newsom tries to pressure SF to adopt a housing plan that will never work

Governor's Office, in highly unusual move, lobbies local Planning Commission on Breed legislation.

Mayor’s budget: The real scrutiny starts

Gut the Ethics Commission. Defy the Housing Element. Undermine collaborative code enforcement. The supes are not happy.

Tenants and organizers rally against Breed’s budget cuts

Plan would eliminate funding for critical housing programs.

The brutal cuts in the Breed budget

Child care, housing for youth, code enforcement, the Food Bank ... all are facing the axe as cops get more and big landlords get tax breaks.

The state housing secrecy just keeps getting worse and worse

Crucial planning decisions are made behind closed-doors, with Yimby stakeholders—and the public can't even get the basic records

A final decision—for now—on the fate of the Castro Theater

Plus: Protecting airport workers and stopping SFPD from adopting new rules without Police Commission approval .... That's The Agenda for May 14-21

Mayor’s affordable housing plans are a pretty profound failure

Hearing shows the huge gap between what the city needs and what Breed is prepared to offer.

Affordable housing is critical infrastructure, and the city needs to invest now

SF won’t begin to meet its housing goals unless Breed commits the funding