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Sharply divided board allows curfew to continue — for now

Tim Redmond - June 2, 2020

A deeply divided Board of Supes allowed Mayor London Breed’s curfew to stay in effect for two more days after advice from the City...

Housing

Why won’t SF health officer order homeless into hotels?

Tim Redmond - May 21, 2020

At the end of the Board of Supes meeting Tuesday, we got some dramatic clarity on why the Department of Public Health isn’t pushing...

Housing

Supes look to protect SRO residents

Tim Redmond - May 18, 2020

The Board of Supes Finance Committee approved today emergency legislation aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 in single-room occupancy hotels. The measure by Sup....

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A massive real-estate scam could force counties to give cash rebates to giant commercial landlords

Tim Redmond - May 17, 2020

The state Board of Equalization, a little-know agency that among other things oversees local property tax assessors, is about to consider some tax-law changes...

Housing

Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?

Tim Redmond - May 4, 2020

While the supervisors and the mayor are engaged in a critical, and bitter, debate about moving homeless people into hotels, the Planning Department is...

Housing

Supes denounce mayor’s failure to follow the law

Tim Redmond - April 27, 2020

Five members of the Board of Supes are furious that Mayor London Breed is refusing to follow the law and put most of the...

Housing

Mayor defies supes, says she won’t open hotel rooms for all homeless

Tim Redmond - April 26, 2020

Mayor London Breed announced this weekend that she is not going to sign – or apparently abide by – legislation requiring the city to...

News + Politics

Breed Administration moves only 36 more homeless people into hotel rooms

Tim Redmond - April 23, 2020

Four days before a legal mandate to provide more than 8,000 hotel rooms for homeless people at risk of COVID-19, the Breed Administration this...

Housing

What, exactly, is going to get built on Geary and Masonic?

Tim Redmond - April 21, 2020

Just before the Board of Supes voted to approve a new 101-unit project on Geary and Masonic, we learned a critical piece of information: The...

News + Politics

Hotel rooms debate comes to the Board of Supes…

Tim Redmond - April 12, 2020

The next step in the effort by five supervisors to mandate that the city procure 8,250 hotel rooms for homeless people during the COVID-19...

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Sharply divided board allows curfew to continue — for now

Why won’t SF health officer order homeless into hotels?

Supes look to protect SRO residents

A massive real-estate scam could force counties to give cash rebates to giant commercial landlords

Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?

Supes denounce mayor’s failure to follow the law

Mayor defies supes, says she won’t open hotel rooms for all homeless

Breed Administration moves only 36 more homeless people into hotel rooms

What, exactly, is going to get built on Geary and Masonic?

Hotel rooms debate comes to the Board of Supes…

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