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Tagged with: Scott Wiener

BART Board votes to endorse Wiener housing bill

On March 8, the BART Board voted 5-4 to support SB 827 – state Sen. Scott Wiener’s housing bill -- with undetermined amendments that...

Campaign trail: Homelessness, superPACs and a weird Chron story

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...

Campaign Trail: Wiener’s upzoning bill becomes issue in SF mayor’s race

Scott Wiener’s bill to strip cities of local zoning and allow more housing density is becoming an issue in the SF mayoral campaign. Sup. Jane...

Hearing on Wiener housing bill points to the roots of this crisis

Most of the time, when San Francisco supervisors ask the board to weigh in on a state or federal issue, it’s just an agenda...

Supes to vote on Wiener upzoning bill, Police Commission to vote on Taser initiative …

THE AGENDA There is good news every once in a while. The Planning Commission last week rejected, on a 7-0 vote, an application to...

Progressive groups promote Kim-Leno dual endorsement strategy

The chorus or progressive groups endorsing both Sup. Jane Kim and Mark Leno for mayor continues to get louder, with the Milk Club, the...

The Agenda: Taxing Uber and Lyft …

THE AGENDA There’s not a lot going on at City Hall this week; everyone seems to be too busy campaigning. But Sup. Aaron Peskin...

Campaign trail: Three donors give $15K to Breed superPAC

The independent expenditure committee backing Sup. London Breed for mayor and attacking Mark Leno has filed its first documentation, which shows that the majority...

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...

Explosive debate finally shows the candidates as they are

The best and most revealing mayoral debate so far – because it was an actual debate – took place last week at the Potrero...