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Housing

Supes look to protect SRO residents

Tim Redmond - May 18, 2020

The Board of Supes Finance Committee approved today emergency legislation aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 in single-room occupancy hotels. The measure by Sup....

Housing

First sanctioned tent city opens in SF

Garrett Leahy - May 14, 2020

San Francisco's first city-sanctioned safe sleeping site began operations yesterday afternoon. The site, referred to as the Safe Sleeping Village, has 50 spaces for...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: ‘5 Blocks’ delves into Mid-Market development quandary

Dennis Harvey - May 12, 2020

Many everyday things have been notable for their absence during the shutdown, so something that stood out was construction—because it never seemed to stop,...

Housing

Can a federal lawsuit force SF to put homeless people in hotels?

Tim Redmond - May 5, 2020

Hastings College of the Law, which has often been at odds with the city, filed a federal lawsuit yesterday claiming that failures in city...

Housing

Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?

Tim Redmond - May 4, 2020

While the supervisors and the mayor are engaged in a critical, and bitter, debate about moving homeless people into hotels, the Planning Department is...

Opinion

OPINION: Save the soul of San Francisco

John Kirkley and Joanna Lawrence Shenk - April 3, 2020

How do you shelter at home, when you don’t have a home? As our city leaders have moved rapidly and wisely to minimize the risks...

COVID

Density, neoliberalism, and COVID

Calvin Welch - March 31, 2020

"There is a density level in NYC that is destructive. It has to stop and it has to stop now. NYC must develop an...

News + Politics

City starts to plan for coronavirus in homeless and SRO communities

Sam Lew - March 10, 2020

San Francisco will provide temporary housing to quarantine unsheltered residents or for people who live in shelters, single room occupancy hotels, or permanent supportive...

News + Politics

Fewer’s racial-equity plan could change the way SF makes policy

Tim Redmond - July 8, 2019

The Government Audit and Oversight Committee will hold a special hearing Thursday/11 to consider an ordinance by Sup. Sandra Lee Fewer that could have...

News + Politics

SF rent control turns 40

Jennifer Fieber - June 4, 2019

Sometimes even long-time San Franciscans take the city's rent control regulations for granted, but we need to remember that we have tenant projections today...

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Supes look to protect SRO residents

First sanctioned tent city opens in SF

Screen Grabs: ‘5 Blocks’ delves into Mid-Market development quandary

Can a federal lawsuit force SF to put homeless people in hotels?

Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?

OPINION: Save the soul of San Francisco

Density, neoliberalism, and COVID

City starts to plan for coronavirus in homeless and SRO communities

Fewer’s racial-equity plan could change the way SF makes policy

SF rent control turns 40

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