Thursday, May 2, 2024

Tagged with: John Avalos

Campos pushes moratorium on luxury housing in the Mission

Legislation world be perhaps the first official acknowledgment that market-rate housing isn't the answer. It needs nine votes to head off a "crisis." Who...

Union workers to rally at ParkMerced

Janitors and maintenance workers lost their jobs when developer hired a new contractor By Tim Redmond APRIL 22, 2015 – Union maintenance workers and janitors, backed...

Progressive candidates lining up for 2016

There's a shortage of challengers to Mayor Ed Lee-- but the progressives have no lack of candidates for the next races for supervisor By Tim...

The Agenda, April 20-April 26: Will the Planning Commission side with Airbnb?

And why is City College moving so quickly to turn public property over to a private developer? By Tim Redmond APRIL 20, 2015 – I thought...

The Agenda, April 13-20: The city’s next $1.7 billion in bonds mostly won’t go to housing

Why we ought to talk about the bond priorities over the next 10 years By Tim Redmond APRIL 13, 2015 – It’s not always a bad...

City Hall’s ethics problem

The voters are overwhelmingly sick of political sleaze -- and in the Mel Murphy era, it will be hard to duck reforms APRIL 8, 2015...

Tom’s Town: The Sweet 16 ballot plan

Why allowing 16-year-olds to vote makes a lot of sense. Plus: The alarming water-use figures on almonds By Tom Temprano MARCH 27, 2015 - Sixteen is...

That bizarre rent-hike eviction in Bernal Heights

The worse abuse of of a rent-law loophole that we've ever seen is creating a furor among neighbors -- and a citywide discussion of...

The Agenda, March 16-20: The youth vote, the housing balance, fighting Mission evictions and more

It's going to be a busy week at City Planning -- and on the streets By Tim Redmond MARCH 16, 2015 – Here’s an idea that...

The Agenda, Feb. 16-23

Airbnb's taxes, ballot initiatives, why are city officials not telling us who they are meeting with, ethics reform, and spaghetti for the 99 percent By...