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Celebrate 40 years of rent control — and support the Tenants Union

Tim Redmond - June 9, 2019

If you live in San Francisco, and you pay rent, you can thank the Tenants Union for the fact that you are still here. The...

News + Politics

SF rent control turns 40

Jennifer Fieber - June 4, 2019

Sometimes even long-time San Franciscans take the city's rent control regulations for granted, but we need to remember that we have tenant projections today...

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We’ve been counted and studied. We still don’t have homes.

Tiny - May 22, 2019

“Excuse me, how many of you are sleeping under there?” a nasal voice yelled into the cardboard box my mama and me were sleeping...

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The real lessons from the surging numbers of homeless people on the streets of SF

Tim Redmond - May 17, 2019

The biggest takeaway from the disturbing (but not surprising) new homeless-count numbers is not that there are more homeless people on the streets. We...

Housing

New study challenges Wiener’s approach to housing

Tim Redmond - May 12, 2019

Pretty much everybody who’s paying attention to the housing crisis in San Francisco – except, apparently, the Chronicle – is talking about the new...

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The Patty Hearst kidnapping and the rise of community-based organizations in SF

Calvin Welch - April 25, 2019

UPDATED, see the end. The 1974 kidnapping of Patricia “Patty” Hearst, granddaughter of the founder of the Hearst media empire, was a dramatic chapter in...

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The SF supes’ salvo against Wiener’s housing deregulation bill

Tim Redmond - April 12, 2019

The story hasn’t received much news media attention, in part because it came as no surprise, but the Board of Supes this week decided,...

News + Politics

Breed Rent Board appointment raises issues for tenants

Tim Redmond - April 4, 2019

For 40 years, the process for selecting members of the San Francisco Rent Board has been pretty consistent. The board, which has the crucial (and...

News + Politics

SF to pay $13.1 million to man who was framed by cops

Tim Redmond - March 17, 2019

The Board of Supes is set to approve Tuesday/19 a $13.1 million settlement of a lawsuit filed by a young man who, a jury found,...

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The Democrats in Sacramento want to deregulate housing — but that has never worked

Tim Redmond - March 3, 2019

Of all the information that came out of the hearing on homelessness last week, when several supervisors said the Mayor’s Office and its Department of...

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Celebrate 40 years of rent control — and support the Tenants Union

SF rent control turns 40

We’ve been counted and studied. We still don’t have homes.

The real lessons from the surging numbers of homeless people on the streets of SF

New study challenges Wiener’s approach to housing

The Patty Hearst kidnapping and the rise of community-based organizations in SF

The SF supes’ salvo against Wiener’s housing deregulation bill

Breed Rent Board appointment raises issues for tenants

SF to pay $13.1 million to man who was framed by cops

The Democrats in Sacramento want to deregulate housing — but that has never worked

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