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Housing

Landlords seek to evict longtime housing activists

Tim Redmond - October 13, 2021

Family with many residential properties claims need for an owner move-in; community organizes to fight back.

Housing

Two major developer-driven housing bills head for Assembly floor

Tim Redmond - August 19, 2021

Newsom may soon be asked to sign deregulation measures—at a time when Wall Street is moving fast into the CA housing market.

Housing

Study: New housing for the rich leads to more evictions for the poor

Tim Redmond - August 8, 2021

Data from Madison Wisconsin could have implications for efforts to force more market-rate development into vulnerable SF neighborhoods.

News + Politics

Low-income people in SF might actually get paid for jury duty

Tim Redmond - July 14, 2021

Plus: Landlords kill a transparency bill that would hold speculators accountable. That's today in Sacramento.

Business + Tech

The Chron has a Mission business story all wrong (are we surprised?)

Tim Redmond - June 8, 2021

There are very real issues of displacement and racial equity in the debate over moving a tech-centered 'destination' to 14th and Mission.

News + Politics

Is San Francisco a ‘conservative’ city? That’s what the Chron thinks.

Tim Redmond - May 9, 2021

But is opposing the Big Business and Big Tech Agenda really 'conservative?' Plus: Free Muni --and a complex new Muni yard. That's The Agenda for May 10-18.

Housing

Supes reject condos where seniors were evicted

Tim Redmond - March 2, 2021

Crucial vote sends a message that a building cleared by the Ellis Act will never get a lucrative permit.

Housing

SF can buy housing for thousands of people, now.

Tim Redmond - February 19, 2021

With federal and local money, taking over hotels would cost a fraction of the price of building affordable housing.

Housing

Tenants block Oakland landlord from sending speculators to inspect apartments

Garrett Leahy - July 10, 2020

It was a musical morning on Thursday at 444 28th Street in West Oakland where tenants, community organizers from the ACCE Institute and the...

News + Politics

The virus of poverty

Tiny - March 22, 2020

I was born into a deadly Virus No it wasn’t in the time of MERS, Ebola or Osiris - It was a disease that kills- that...

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Landlords seek to evict longtime housing activists

Two major developer-driven housing bills head for Assembly floor

Study: New housing for the rich leads to more evictions for the poor

Low-income people in SF might actually get paid for jury duty

The Chron has a Mission business story all wrong (are we surprised?)

Is San Francisco a ‘conservative’ city? That’s what the Chron thinks.

Supes reject condos where seniors were evicted

SF can buy housing for thousands of people, now.

Tenants block Oakland landlord from sending speculators to inspect apartments

The virus of poverty

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