Friday, May 3, 2024

Tagged with: Poor

Poor People’s Campaign marches on Trump’s DC

Well I went down to the rich man’s house- to take back what he stole from me -- take back my dignity, take back...

The mayor’s cruel lie about homelessness

Mayor Mark Farrell must think San Franciscans are extremely ignorant, or at least that’s what he’s counting on with his latest stunt where he...

SF supes oppose Wiener real-estate bill

The Board of Supes voted today to oppose State Senator Scott Wiener’s real-estate bill, SB 827, which would upzone most of San Francisco.  The discussion...

The flaws in Stanford’s anti-rent-control study

Economists who believe in free-market solutions generally don’t like rent control, because – by definition – it distorts the market. So we’ve seen a...

Special Report: Ed Lee’s police legacy

Editor’s note: As the candidates for mayor discuss law enforcement, police accountability, and the future of the SFPD, it’s worth looking back at how...

Yimbyism and the cruel irony of metropolitan history

The sense of housing crisis is nearly everywhere. Debates about housing policy are heating up, turning once arcane fields into the subject of fevered...

A challenge to sitting judges — and the secretive judicial system

Judges don’t like elections. That’s been true in San Francisco for decades, and it’s true in most of the rest of the country. The...

Homelessness and the SF mayor’s race

"Don't turn left, because that area is full of ‘bums’ and it doesn’t reflect on the real "San Francisco.” The cab driver clicked his...

EXCLUSIVE: Tenants living in squalid conditions in building owned by SF’s largest landlord

Fe Soledad’s day begins with making sure her son Vincent is ready to go to school before she heads off to work. Everything needs...

A stunning surprise: Interim Mayor Mark Farrell

In a stunning vote that nobody expected, the Board of Supes selected Sup. Mark Farrell to be interim mayor, leaving the June race wide...