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The lessons of last fall’s Airbnb campaign

Last month, at its annual meeting in Puerto Rico, the American Association of Political Consultants gave the $10M Airbnb-financed No on F campaign its...

Who sent the mayor to Brazil? A group that wants to turn the Mission into tech offices

So we haven’t seen much of Mayor Ed Lee for a while, partly because he doesn’t seem to want to hear protesters go after...

When city planners treat us like infants

  Tomorrow evening (Wed/30) the Planning Department will hold a “Community Discussion” of the Railyard Alternatives and I-280 Feasibility Study (RAB) at the Potrero Hill...

Yes, gentrification will hit the Tenderloin

  In an admirable burst of optimism, a current BeyondChron post concludes that, unlike the rapidly gentrifying Mission District, the Tenderloin is not “... transforming...

The Academy of Art compliance hearing: We should live so long

More than 20 years after the Academy of Art University began gobbling up San Francisco real estate and violating planning codes all over the...

Campos throws down gauntlet, calls for state of emergency on homelessness

Supervisor David Campos, frustrated by the city’s lack of progress on homelessness, is planning to announce Tuesday/8 that he’s introducing legislation to call a...

The Mission, noir — with some ugly history and real life today

On Dec. 12, 1975, an arsonist set fire to the Gartland Apartments, a low-income residential complex at 16th and Valencia, killing at least 14 people...

Some data about homeless people in SF

We’ve talked about the big myths around homelessness in San Francisco. We’ve discussed the problem of sweeping people off the streets when there’s nowhere...

Why C.W. Nevius is wrong about the Google buses

I keep having to correct Chuck Nevius, and this time, he’s going on about the glories of the Google buses, quoting Sup. Scott Wiener,...

Another foreclosure in Bayview puts the focus on Fannie Mae

 More than 30 people gathered last week outside the home of yet another Bayview family losing a home of 19 years. It couldn’t be...