Tag: Short-term rentals
Breaking the law and abusing workers plays well on Wall Street
Breaking the law repeatedly, enabling thousands of evictions, ducking your taxes, overturning state labor codes, and abusing your workers seems to be a recipe for immense wealth these days.
Both...
Real-estate industry rebels at modest measure to limit corporate rentals
The real-estate industry and the San Francisco Planning Department are going crazy over a rather modest proposal by Sup. Aaron Peskin to limit corporate housing rentals.
Peskin’s bill comes in...
Forget SB 50 — San Francisco needs a bold plan for social housing
State Senator Scott Wiener has reintroduced his housing bill, SB 50, which seeks to alleviate the housing crisis by forcing more density around transit corridors. But it doesn’t include any new...
Where the mayoral candidates stood on regulating Airbnb
The Chron on Sunday published a full-page spread on “where SF candidates stand on the city’s biggest issues.” The paper, which has repeatedly reported that there any many big...
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 Hill Democratic Club. (Thanks to...
EXCLUSIVE: Tenants living in squalid conditions in building owned by SF’s largest landlord
Fe Soledad’s day begins with making sure her son Vincent is ready to go to school before she heads off to work. Everything needs to be laid out carefully;...
Ed Lee’s development legacy and the end of ‘balanced growth’
There is one defining fact about Ed Lee's years as mayor that has been missed in all that has been written about his legacy: Between 2010 and 2014, according...
What if the housing crisis is caused by too much growth?
The Board of Supes Land Use Committee heard the latest on the housing crisis today, in the form of data showing how far out of whack the balance between...
15 tenants face unusual eviction in Bayview
John Brown walks slowly up to his second-floor apartment, but he doesn’t ask for help. The 68-year-old Vietnam Vet and former firefighter is happy in his one-bedroom unit in...
The budget picture is bleak — but Mayor Lee has no worries
It was all doom and gloom at the Board of Supes Budget Committee March 9, with the mayor’s budget director and the controller warning of potentially severe budget deficits...
