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Housing

Broadway developer ignores Chinese-speaking residents of adjacent SRO

Tim Redmond - December 12, 2021

Luxury condo project would literally surround low-income housing with major impacts, but nobody talked to the residents.

Housing

The facts behind the developer propaganda on Soma housing project

John Elberling - December 6, 2021

The supes vote wasn't anti-housing; there's a great housing deal on the table that the developer has rejected.

Housing

Some perspective—and facts—on supes’ recent housing vote

Tim Redmond - November 5, 2021

The Chron and the Yimby world are going crazy over the supes decision not to allow a market-rate housing project to gentrify a low-income...

Housing

In dramatic move, supes block huge luxury housing project in Soma

Tim Redmond - October 27, 2021

Debate shows city planners' utter failure to understand the role of market-rate housing in gentrification and displacement.

Housing

Luxury housing will destroy the last low-income community in Soma

John Elberling - October 20, 2021

Oh, and on a site with very shaky ground, the building could be the next Leaning Tower.

Housing

Robots in the crash pad: The twisted takeover of the Red Victorian Hotel

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - September 21, 2021

How Haight Ashbury countercultural ideals were distorted by a tech "co-living" experiment, and a trans performance community was displaced.

The Agenda

A tech-worker dorm in the Tenderloin? Or the end of the Yimby narrative?

Tim Redmond - September 6, 2021

Christian Science Church had an approved project—but the developer says family housing doesn't make enough money it's asking for tech dorms instead. That's The Agenda for Sept 7-13

Housing

Wiener supports giant project pushed through with no neighborhood input

Tim Redmond - August 11, 2021

At town hall, senators says that Yimbys 'are the best thing that's happened' and said he supports a massive Potrero Hill project that avoids Planning Commission approval.

Homelessness

Can people paying rent for a parking space be evicted for living in cars?

Tim Redmond - May 13, 2021

Caltrans is about to try to remove people from a lot under I-80.

Homelessness

Inside the SIP hotels saga

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - March 15, 2021

How activists and some supes forced the city to put homeless people in hotel rooms.

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Broadway developer ignores Chinese-speaking residents of adjacent SRO

The facts behind the developer propaganda on Soma housing project

Some perspective—and facts—on supes’ recent housing vote

In dramatic move, supes block huge luxury housing project in Soma

Luxury housing will destroy the last low-income community in Soma

Robots in the crash pad: The twisted takeover of the Red Victorian Hotel

A tech-worker dorm in the Tenderloin? Or the end of the Yimby narrative?

Wiener supports giant project pushed through with no neighborhood input

Can people paying rent for a parking space be evicted for living in cars?

Inside the SIP hotels saga

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