Friday, May 3, 2024

Tagged with: Rent

Will the “growth wars” ever end? Well, maybe not

By Zelda Bronstein OCTOBER 13, 2014 -- Every month, the law firm of Reuben, Junius & Rose hosts a lunchtime forum called the Real Estate...

The right-wing attack on tenant protections in San Francisco

By Tim Redmond OCTOBER 9, 2014 – On Monday morning, Oct. 6, in a federal courtroom, the oldest pro-corporate, libertarian legal organization in the nation...

Supes side with Airbnb — will this wind up on the ballot?

Tim Redmond OCTOBER 8, 2014 – The Board of Supervisors adopted a slightly amended version of Sup. David Chiu’s Airbnb legislation yesterday, but the measure...

Seems like everyone is against the Airbnb bill

By Tim Redmond OCTOBER 3, 2104 –Pretty amazing how many opponents David Chiu’s Airbnb legislation has drawn. At a noon press conference today, the landlords...

A ballot measure to save the Flower Mart

By Zelda Bronstein OCTOBER 2, 2014 -- The fight to save the San Francisco Flower Mart ramped up yesterday, as the coalition supporting the flower...

Airbnb battle — and it will be a battle –heads for Board of Supervisors

By Tim Redmond OCTOBER 1, 2104 -- The remarkable thing about the Land Use Committee’s decision on Airbnb Monday was how few substantive amendments were...

At risk: 238 rent-controlled housing units

By Tim Redmond There’s a strange proposal making its way through the San Francisco planning process that would lead to the loss of 238 low-cost...

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...

Politics on Tuesday: The Transbay deal gets slammed by the Chron — and may be dead anyway

By Tim Redmond SEPTEMBER 23, 2014 – The staid and pro-development ol' Chron has gotten all feisty and populist on its editorial page, with a...

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...