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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.

Housing

Newsom housing deal leaves tenants at risk

Tim Redmond - January 25, 2021

Legislation would give landlords state bailout money -- but includes no provisions for future tenant protections.

Campaign Trail

Who’s paying for a D5 poll aimed at attacking Preston?

Tim Redmond - September 12, 2019

Somebody has paid for a poll in the D5 supes campaign that is clearly testing messaging that might be used against challenger Dean Preston...

News + Politics

Facebook money pushes Chiu housing bill

Zelda Bronstein - August 17, 2019

48 hills’ “Facebook money and California housing” series delves into the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s multi-million-dollar funding of the pro-growth shadow government that’s reshaping California...

Campaign Trail

Vallie Brown’s big real-estate money

Tim Redmond - August 2, 2019

The campaign contribution filings for the first six months of 2019 are now public, and the most dramatic news involves the D5 supes race. For...

News + Politics

What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Zelda Bronstein - January 10, 2019

The first installment of my CASA story listed bills introduced in the state Legislature on December 3, most notably Scott Wiener’s do-over of his...

News + Politics

Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

Zelda Bronstein - January 3, 2019

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has been planning a coup. Not the putsch kind of coup, where armed insurgents overthrow a duly constituted government, but an...

Culture

Capturing Harvey Milk’s martyrdom and living legacy

Marke B. - November 27, 2018

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the assassinations of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. (It's also the 10th anniversary of Milk, the movie...

News + Politics

Statewide tenant group celebrates ten years of organizing

Tim Redmond - September 20, 2018

What began as an experiment is now the longest running statewide tenant organization in California history. Tenants Together, California’s statewide renters’ rights organization, is...

News + Politics

The flaws in Stanford’s anti-rent-control study

Tim Redmond - March 13, 2018

Economists who believe in free-market solutions generally don’t like rent control, because – by definition – it distorts the market. So we’ve seen a...

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

Newsom housing deal leaves tenants at risk

Who’s paying for a D5 poll aimed at attacking Preston?

Facebook money pushes Chiu housing bill

Vallie Brown’s big real-estate money

What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

Capturing Harvey Milk’s martyrdom and living legacy

Statewide tenant group celebrates ten years of organizing

The flaws in Stanford’s anti-rent-control study

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