Stories about Mayor
Should the tech boom pay the costs of the tech boom?
The IPOs will make the housing market even worse. Should we use the budget surplus to build affordable housing? That's The Agenda for April 21-28.
BREAKING: Breed’s Rent Board appointee resigns
Facing a possible rejection at the Board of Supes, Reese Isbell steps down and the mayor appoints a respected tenant lawyer to the job.
Supes vote on Breed’s Rent Board appointee will be political test
Are there eight votes to defy the mayor's appointment of a Rent Board member who many say is clearly unqualified?
Campaign against dark money kicks off Wednesday
SF could have the strongest disclosure laws on secretive PACs if proposal passes in November.
48hills sues MTC over secretive housing policy operation
We want to know how much public money went into funding a pro-developer operations aimed at promoting more market-rate housing with few protections for vulnerable communities.
Tenant representation and spy technology
Supes committee to vote on Breed's Rent Board appointee -- and on a measure to control surveillance in San Francisco (which the cops are trying to derail). That's The Agenda for April 16-21
The SF supes’ salvo against Wiener’s housing deregulation bill
A 9-2 vote against SB 50 puts SF on record against a measure that adds no new affordable housing or transit funding while encouraging more luxury housing.
SFFILM Fest opens with stars and ‘Tales’
Armistead Maupin, Laura Linney, and the crew of 28 Barbary Lane were on hand to premiere the first episode of the new 'Tales of the City.'
Supes reject plan that would shadow Soma park
In direct rebuke to mayor, board says that a developer can't buy off the city when it comes to blocking sunshine in a crowded neighborhood.
The bizarre argument in favor of Wiener’s housing bill
Sup. Vallie Brown tries to make the convoluted case for letting the private market solve our housing crisis.