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The Chron, voting rights, and district elections

Tim Redmond - December 28, 2023

If the state Legislature starts to see district elections of local legislators as a Nimby problem, the oligarchs in SF will rejoice.

The Agenda

How will the cops explain all the arrests at the Dolores hill bomb skateboard event?

Tim Redmond - July 16, 2023

Plus: A big step toward a public bank and some good and bad housing stories ... that 's The Agenda for July 16-23

Housing

Monster in the Mission is now 100 percent affordable housing

Tim Redmond - February 14, 2022

Community activists were not 'anti-housing,' They were anti-displacement, and they won.

Business + Tech

The Chron has a Mission business story all wrong (are we surprised?)

Tim Redmond - June 8, 2021

There are very real issues of displacement and racial equity in the debate over moving a tech-centered 'destination' to 14th and Mission.

Housing

Monster in the Mission is now 100 percent affordable housing

Tim Redmond - September 7, 2020

A lesson in community organizing. Plus: Half the cops who broke the rules get no discipline -- and some new rules to prevent city ethics scandals. That's The Agenda for Sept. 7-14

Homelessness

Old SF money backing stealthy new right-wing group

Tim Redmond - August 31, 2020

Most start-up political organizations like a splash. They hold news events, press conferences, big galas to say: We have arrived. This is who we...

Housing

City Planning (finally) admits it has a problem

Tim Redmond - July 23, 2020

The Land Use and Transportation Committee hearing this week was remarkable: For the first time ever, as far as I can remember, the Planning...

Housing

Is the Monster in the Mission dead?

Tim Redmond - February 24, 2020

For years, as community leaders fought for affordable housing instead of luxury condos as 16thand Mission, the developer who owned the site said that...

News + Politics

Planners hear how Nancy Skinner’s housing bill would hurt SF communities

Tim Redmond - June 29, 2019

Several members of the Planning Commission expressed concern this week about SB 330, a bill by Sen. Nancy Skinner that is supposed to speed...

News + Politics

Save the Redstone Building!

Tim Redmond - February 19, 2019

My first job in San Francisco was in the Redstone Building, at 2940 16thStreet, near the 16thand Mission BART plaza. I worked as a...

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The Chron, voting rights, and district elections

How will the cops explain all the arrests at the Dolores hill bomb skateboard event?

Monster in the Mission is now 100 percent affordable housing

The Chron has a Mission business story all wrong (are we surprised?)

Monster in the Mission is now 100 percent affordable housing

Old SF money backing stealthy new right-wing group

City Planning (finally) admits it has a problem

Is the Monster in the Mission dead?

Planners hear how Nancy Skinner’s housing bill would hurt SF communities

Save the Redstone Building!

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