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Facebook money and California housing

Zelda Bronstein - May 29, 2019

On January 24, 2019, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the limited liability company founded by Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg,...

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48hills sues MTC over secretive housing policy operation

Tim Redmond - April 15, 2019

48hills filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court today asking a judge to order the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to release full reports of how...

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CASA’s secret New York junket

Zelda Bronstein - January 15, 2019

During the final meeting of the CASA Technical Committee on December 12, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf let slip that she and unnamed others had...

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What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Zelda Bronstein - January 10, 2019

The first installment of my CASA story listed bills introduced in the state Legislature on December 3, most notably Scott Wiener’s do-over of his...

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Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

Zelda Bronstein - January 3, 2019

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has been planning a coup. Not the putsch kind of coup, where armed insurgents overthrow a duly constituted government, but an...

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A new housing ‘compact’ looks a lot like a developer’s dream

Tim Redmond - December 9, 2018

With State Sen. Scott Wiener’s new housing bill now pending, a group convened by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission has released a draft plan to...

Onstage

Austen, downstairs, in ‘The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberly’

Emily Wilson - December 6, 2018

ONSTAGE When asked if he read novels, the philosopher Gilbert Ryle said, “Oh yes. All six, every year.” Ryle was talking about the work of Jane...

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Should private shuttles be able to use Muni-only lanes?

Tim Redmond - August 19, 2018

San Francisco transit planners have been working for years on a proposal to create bus-only lanes on Geary Boulevard. It’s called Bus Rapid Transit,...

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Wiener’s real estate bill gets first Senate hearing

Tim Redmond - April 15, 2018

State Sen. Scott Wiener’s real-estate bill that would increase height limits across 96 percent of San Francisco faces its first hearing in the Senate...

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Why workers had to strike in Oakland

Tim Redmond - December 7, 2017

I shouldn’t be surprised that the mainstream East Bay news media are, to say the least, unsympathetic toward the Oakland city workers’ strike. The...

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Facebook money and California housing

48hills sues MTC over secretive housing policy operation

CASA’s secret New York junket

What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

A new housing ‘compact’ looks a lot like a developer’s dream

Austen, downstairs, in ‘The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberly’

Should private shuttles be able to use Muni-only lanes?

Wiener’s real estate bill gets first Senate hearing

Why workers had to strike in Oakland

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