Saturday, May 4, 2024

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The developers are wrong: CEQA doesn’t stop housing

Developers see the California Environmental Quality Act as some sort of Great Satan, the source of pretty much everything that’s wrong with the state....

Why allowing more housing makes property more expensive

Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, director of the Housing Rights Committee, stood on the steps of City Hall yesterday morning and explained why allowing the free market...

San Francisco, two-party town

I am increasingly coming to believe that San Francisco is now a two-party city – and oddly, we are seeing that reflected in the...

Crashing the Super Bowl party

The national news media got a look at San Francisco beyond the (boring) glitz of Super Bowl City and stage-managed press conferences tonight as...

The hidden tragedy of transgender seniors

A generation that transitioned in the 1960s and 1970s is locked out of the US health-care system By Liana Aghajanian NOVEMBER 19, 2015 -- In the...

Developers cry poverty; so sad

  By Tim Redmond SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 – The vast majority of the people who testified today at the Land Use Committee on the Transportation Sustainability...

Could Richmond be a model for police reform?

By Brett Murphy Ed. Note: In the past decade, the police department in Richmond, Calif. has undergone a dramatic transformation. Spearheaded by an openly-gay and white...

Investigation: New condos aren’t owned by San Francisco residents

When condos in a triplet of luxury towers near the Embarcadero called The Brannan began selling in 2000, wealthy buyers snapped them up. Nine...

Poll slams city planning — and suggests the voters are ready for a new approach to development

By Tim Redmond SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 -- Mayor Ed Lee’s Planning Department gets poor marks for its response to the city’s development boom, and a...

Even a mainstream state housing group says SF’s “market” is a failure

By Tim Redmond Aug. 22, 2014 – The California Housing Partnership Corporation isn’t a radical left organization. It’s a quasi-governmental agency created by the state...