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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...

Housing

Mayor defies supes, says she won’t open hotel rooms for all homeless

Tim Redmond - April 26, 2020

Mayor London Breed announced this weekend that she is not going to sign – or apparently abide by – legislation requiring the city to...

News + Politics

Preston seeks to end Muni ‘price gouging’

Tim Redmond - April 22, 2020

Sup. Dean Preston, who helped spearhead opposition to a Muni fare hike, took a new and novel approach today: He asked the city attorney to...

Housing

Developer wants huge density bonus — should we know why?

Tim Redmond - April 19, 2020

Fascinating housing discussion last week at the Board of Supes. The issue involves a large site at Geary and Masonic that for years was...

News + Politics

Hotel rooms debate comes to the Board of Supes…

Tim Redmond - April 12, 2020

The next step in the effort by five supervisors to mandate that the city procure 8,250 hotel rooms for homeless people during the COVID-19...

Housing

Breed administration says it’s ‘not fiscally prudent’ to get homeless off the streets

Tim Redmond - April 5, 2020

A lot of people apparently have been sending emails to Trent Rhorer, the director of the Human Services Agency, because he has an auto-reply...

COVID

For taxi drivers, COVID is a brutal dilemma

Garrett Leahy - April 3, 2020

“I can’t even afford to go to work,” said taxi driver Colin Marcoux, who has been driving a cab for over two decades. COVID has...

News + Politics

Should Muni raise fares in a crisis?

Jeantelle Laberinto - March 18, 2020

Transit justice advocates in San Francisco are left with more questions after San Francisco ordered a “shelter-in-place” directive in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This...

Housing

Stopping evictions and price-gouging in the coronavirus crisis

Tim Redmond - March 8, 2020

Sup. Dean Preston is calling for a moratorium on all evictions in San Francisco during the coronavirus outbreak. And District Attorney Chesa Boudin has...

Housing

The latest way VC and tech disruptors are attacking SF’s housing stock

Tim Redmond - February 27, 2020

Sup. Aaron Peskin opened a hearing this week on regulations of corporate rentals with a remarkable statement: “In the almost 20 years I have been...

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Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?

Mayor defies supes, says she won’t open hotel rooms for all homeless

Preston seeks to end Muni ‘price gouging’

Developer wants huge density bonus — should we know why?

Hotel rooms debate comes to the Board of Supes…

Breed administration says it’s ‘not fiscally prudent’ to get homeless off the streets

For taxi drivers, COVID is a brutal dilemma

Should Muni raise fares in a crisis?

Stopping evictions and price-gouging in the coronavirus crisis

The latest way VC and tech disruptors are attacking SF’s housing stock

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