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New MIT study suggests the Yimby narrative on housing is wrong

Tim Redmond - January 29, 2019

The Yimby narrative – that higher density in US cities will bring down housing prices – doesn’t work in real life, a dramatic new...

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Building momentum and the Women’s March

Tim Redmond - January 21, 2019

The New York Times spent a lot of time talking about the “controversy” around this weekend’s Women’s March. The march was “smaller;”maybe there’s a “waning...

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Mar pushes Breed on budget accountability

Tim Redmond - January 15, 2019

Sup. Gordon Mar made his first big statement today, demanding that Mayor London Breed open up the budget process to community advocates. During Question Time,...

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CASA’s secret New York junket

Zelda Bronstein - January 15, 2019

During the final meeting of the CASA Technical Committee on December 12, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf let slip that she and unnamed others had...

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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...

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Relax: Yee’s ‘interim committees’ are just placeholders

Tim Redmond - January 10, 2019

The progressive supporters of Sup. Norman Yee, who won the board presidency thanks to the votes of three moderates, have been saying that he...

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The real stakes in the board president vote

Tim Redmond - January 3, 2019

Political observers are scrambling to figure out who the next president of the Board of Supes will be – and in the process, some...

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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...

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SF transportation agency gives private buses illegal access to transit-only lanes

Sue Vaughan - December 16, 2018

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is getting the rules of the road all wrong and the agency needs to fix its mistakes. In recent...

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Behind the battle for board president

Tim Redmond - December 10, 2018

When I was a young reporter at the Bay Guardian, the editor, Bruce Brugmann, told me not to bother writing stories about how “the...

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New MIT study suggests the Yimby narrative on housing is wrong

Building momentum and the Women’s March

Mar pushes Breed on budget accountability

CASA’s secret New York junket

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

Relax: Yee’s ‘interim committees’ are just placeholders

The real stakes in the board president vote

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

SF transportation agency gives private buses illegal access to transit-only lanes

Behind the battle for board president

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