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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

Protesters shut down Wiener at SB50 press conference

Sam Lew - January 7, 2020

A group of homeless mothers and their supporters shut down California State Senator Scott Wiener’s press conference announcing the reintroduction of the contentious housing...

Housing

Wiener’s housing deregulation bill is back!

Tim Redmond - January 5, 2020

State Sen. Scott Wiener will hold a press conference and rally in Oakland Tuesday/7 to announce that he’s re-introducing a new version of his...

News + Politics

The Agenda, New Year’s edition: Saving City College …

Tim Redmond - January 2, 2020

It’s pretty unusual for a public official who runs a major institution that is short of cash to refuse help. But that’s what’s going...

News + Politics

The violence of wealth-hoarding

Tiny - December 27, 2019

Your ambivalence is violence Your paralysis is more homelessness Your hoarding creates our impoverished life story I have shared with descendants of wealth-hoarders, land stealers who know that...

Housing

Supes to vote on Wiener’s development bill

Tim Redmond - December 3, 2019

A Board of Supes committee will decide Thursday/5whether to oppose state Sen. Scott Wiener’s SB 50– and at this point, there are eight votes...

Housing

Mayor Breed sides with the Yimbys and developers

Tim Redmond - November 21, 2019

The housing agenda of Mayor London Breed continues to become more clear – and it’s entirely in line with development interests and the Yimby...

News + Politics

The Street Sheet: 30 years of journalism by and for homeless people

TJ Johnston - November 1, 2019

Since 2001, I’ve been involved with Street Sheet in some capacity — at first as a freelancer, and now as a sort-of managing editor...

News + Politics

SF Planning’s really weak ‘Community Stabilization Policy’

Tim Redmond - October 14, 2019

The San Francisco Planning Commission will hear a presentation Thursday/ 17 on the department’s Community Stabilization Policy– supposedly an interagency effort to fight the...

Campaign Trail

Sup. Vallie Brown evicted low-income tenants

Tim Redmond - October 10, 2019

Sup. Vallie Brown has a narrative driving her campaign: She had a difficult childhood, faced evictions and homelessness, and is now working to protect...

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

Protesters shut down Wiener at SB50 press conference

Wiener’s housing deregulation bill is back!

The Agenda, New Year’s edition: Saving City College …

The violence of wealth-hoarding

Supes to vote on Wiener’s development bill

Mayor Breed sides with the Yimbys and developers

The Street Sheet: 30 years of journalism by and for homeless people

SF Planning’s really weak ‘Community Stabilization Policy’

Sup. Vallie Brown evicted low-income tenants

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