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Silent is golden

Dennis Harvey - May 29, 2017

SCREEN GRABS Particularly these days, a one-story building designated for commercial usage in space-hungry San Francisco is an unusual sight, so you may at...

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What the city’s new housing policy will mean

Tim Redmond - May 26, 2017

San Francisco wound up with a sweeping new affordable housing policy this week, one that will encourage the demolition of some existing low-rise commercial...

Arts + Culture

Surfing the docs

Dennis Harvey - May 26, 2017

SCREEN GRABS This is a moment when the notion of watching documentaries sounds like mandatory homework: The world is falling apart, many parties would...

News + Politics

In historic vote, Democratic Party supports rent control

Dean Preston - May 23, 2017

Here’s some big news from last weekend’s California Democratic Party Convention that won’t make the papers: Delegates voted to pass a resolution expressing “the...

News + Politics

The Agenda, 5/22-5/29: The affordable housing debate isn’t over

Tim Redmond - May 21, 2017

Sups. Jane Kim and Aaron Peskin have cut a deal on affordable housing, creating a “consensus” measure that lowers current inclusionary levels from a...

News + Politics

Why ABAG housing quotas lead to displacement

Thomas Lord - May 19, 2017

The Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), a product of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), assigns to each Bay Area Jurisdiction quotas of...

News + Politics

Single-payer’s next step

Anjali Baliga - May 19, 2017

On April 26, 2017, the Healthy California Act (S.B. 562) was passed with a 5-2 vote at the Senate Health Committee hearing in Sacramento. The...

News + Politics

A ‘nationwide dragnet’ targets millions of immigrants

Sana Saleem - May 16, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDHM7Ef59FQ On the morning of February 28th, 2017, Fatima Avelica was getting ready to say goodbye to her father as he dropped her off at...

Arts + Culture

A leap for CROSSROADS

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - May 16, 2017

SCREEN GRABS The San Francisco Cinematheque’s eighth annual experimental film festival, CROSSROADS 2017, has some genuine medicine for the overabundance of melancholy fogging up the...

News + Politics

Voters support more, not less, affordable housing

Tim Redmond - May 15, 2017

A majority of San Francisco voters oppose the plan by Sups. London Breed and Ahsha Safai to reduce the level of affordable housing in...

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