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Tenant Troubles

Tenant Troubles: Do landlords really have a secret ‘Rule of Seven?’

Dave Crow - May 8, 2018

Editor’s note: It’s hard to be a renter in San Francisco these days; some landlords are constantly looking for ways to squeeze out more...

Lit

Author Amanda Huron on housing and the power of urban ‘commoning’

James Tracy - April 26, 2018

LIT Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. "explores the practice of urban 'commoning' in Washington, DC, through an investigation...

News + Politics

Supes refuse to allow building owners to profit from evicting senior

Tim Redmond - April 24, 2018

The Board of Supes sent a clear message today that people who evict seniors shouldn’t get a lucrative permit to turn former apartments into...

News + Politics

SF needs a mayor who will tax, spend, and regulate

Calvin Welch - April 23, 2018

Consider a short list of the realities facing our next mayor: The social/economic/cultural transformation of the city through unchecked hyper-gentrification caused by a development policy...

The Agenda

Supes asked to allow condos where centenarian was evicted

Tim Redmond - April 22, 2018

The owners of a Page Street building who evicted a centenarian who died shortly after losing her home are asking the Board of Supes to...

Tenant Troubles

Tenant Troubles: Can I get in trouble for breaking a lease?

Dave Crow - April 4, 2018

I'm finding myself in the position of looking for an apt for the first time in a long time. I thought I ought to...

Campaign Trail

Campaign trail: Homelessness, superPACs and a weird Chron story

Tim Redmond - March 19, 2018

This was the week of candidates putting forward plans to address homelessness. Mark Leno put forward his plan to end “street homelessness,” and while some...

News + Politics

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

Tim Redmond - March 13, 2018

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...

News + Politics

A challenge to sitting judges — and the secretive judicial system

Tim Redmond - February 27, 2018

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...

Exclusive

Scott Wiener’s war on local planning

Zelda Bronstein - February 1, 2018

On January 19, I attended UCLA Extension’s 2018 Land Use Law and Planning Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Seated in...

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Tenant Troubles: Do landlords really have a secret ‘Rule of Seven?’

Author Amanda Huron on housing and the power of urban ‘commoning’

Supes refuse to allow building owners to profit from evicting senior

SF needs a mayor who will tax, spend, and regulate

Supes asked to allow condos where centenarian was evicted

Tenant Troubles: Can I get in trouble for breaking a lease?

Campaign trail: Homelessness, superPACs and a weird Chron story

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

A challenge to sitting judges — and the secretive judicial system

Scott Wiener’s war on local planning

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