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Breaking the law and abusing workers plays well on Wall Street

Tim Redmond - December 14, 2020

Breaking the law repeatedly, enabling thousands of evictions, ducking your taxes, overturning state labor codes, and abusing your workers seems to be a recipe...

Housing

Real-estate industry rebels at modest measure to limit corporate rentals

Tim Redmond - January 15, 2020

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

Forget SB 50 — San Francisco needs a bold plan for social housing

Steven Hill - January 9, 2020

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...

Campaign Trail

Where the mayoral candidates stood on regulating Airbnb

Tim Redmond - May 28, 2018

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...

News + Politics

Explosive debate finally shows the candidates as they are

Tim Redmond - February 25, 2018

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

News + Politics

EXCLUSIVE: Tenants living in squalid conditions in building owned by SF’s largest landlord

Sana Saleem - January 25, 2018

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...

News + Politics

Ed Lee’s development legacy and the end of ‘balanced growth’

Calvin Welch - January 7, 2018

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:...

News + Politics

What if the housing crisis is caused by too much growth?

Tim Redmond - November 27, 2017

The Board of Supes Land Use Committee heard the latest on the housing crisis today, in the form of data showing how far out...

News + Politics

15 tenants face unusual eviction in Bayview

Tim Redmond and Sana Saleem - July 25, 2017

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...

News + Politics

The budget picture is bleak — but Mayor Lee has no worries

Tim Redmond - March 12, 2017

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...

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Breaking the law and abusing workers plays well on Wall Street

Real-estate industry rebels at modest measure to limit corporate rentals

Forget SB 50 — San Francisco needs a bold plan for social housing

Where the mayoral candidates stood on regulating Airbnb

Explosive debate finally shows the candidates as they are

EXCLUSIVE: Tenants living in squalid conditions in building owned by SF’s largest landlord

Ed Lee’s development legacy and the end of ‘balanced growth’

What if the housing crisis is caused by too much growth?

15 tenants face unusual eviction in Bayview

The budget picture is bleak — but Mayor Lee has no worries

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