Tag: Landlords
City beat: Mayor Ed Lee’s “road to Sacramento” and the impact of Google buses
By Tim Redmond
Mayor Ed Lee agreed Tuesday that the way speculators are using the Ellis Act in San Francisco is "unacceptable." He said some of the strongest words we've...
City Beat: Serial Ellis Evictors and mid-Market community benefits (or not)
A map of all the no-fault evictions in the city (antievictionmap.squarespace.com)
By Tim Redmond
I'm not a church-going sort, but at least once a year I go speak to the Unitarians,...
Tenants planning 2014 agenda
Tenants packed the LGBT center to talk about how to fight back
By Tim Redmond
There had to be 250 people at the Castro Tenants Convention Saturday, a sign of two...
POLITICS ON TUESDAY: Jerry Brown’s presidential campaign and the politics of a serious local Ellis Act limit
By Tim Redmond
Willie Brown says he broke the story that Our Governor is thinking about running for president. (Yes, of the United States.) Mark Barabak at the LA Times...
How tech can be part of the solution
By Tim Redmond
It’s getting to be a war zone out there, a class war zone – and if the mayor hasn’t noticed it, the signs should have been clear...
POLITICS ON TUESDAY: Dufty, again? Kelly, again? And what tech could really do to change its image
By Tim Redmond
Wouldn’t it be crazy if Bevan Dufty, who has redeemed himself somewhat among progressives as the mayor’s homeless services coordinator, decided to run for District 8 supervisor...
A little reality about the housing market in SF
By Tim Redmond
Michael Yarne, a developer, former mayoral advisor and advocate for increased housing construction in San Francisco, has a metaphor for what economists call The Market: It is,...
City Beat: Media jamming on the Google bus and parking meters in the neighborhoods
The World as We Know It in San Francisco was buzzing all day over the protestors who blocked a Google bus – and the fake Google employee who said...
