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The city could buy a vacant building for half the price of building new affordable housing

Tim Redmond - August 16, 2023

A foreclosed Tennessee St. project is on the market as a bargain price. It's just one of many opportunities the city could take advantage of.

News + Politics

Homeless women take over vacant house in the Castro

Tim Redmond - May 1, 2020

Two unhoused women took over a vacant building in the Castro today, sparking a massive police response, at least one arrest – and renewed...

News + Politics

Everyone has to sacrifice in these tough times — except the 1 percent

Tim Redmond - March 20, 2020

The governor told us last night that Californians all have to work together to prevent a greater public-health disaster. He said that “we are...

Housing

Breed Administration official says moving homeless people into hotel rooms is not a priority

Tim Redmond - March 19, 2020

The Board of Supes hearing Tuesday on the city’s response to the COVID-19 crisis demonstrated a key policy divide between the Breed Administration and...

Housing

An emergency platform for protecting unhoused people

Tim Redmond - March 19, 2020

The Coalition on Homelessness just put out an emergency policy platform to protecting unhoused people from COVID-19. You can sign the petition to show...

Housing

Oakland moms make national statement with housing victory

Sam Lew - January 21, 2020

In a huge victory that may change the way Oakland (and other cities) looks at vacant housing, homeless mothers who took over an empty...

The Agenda

More housing. Higher prices. That’s what a new city report shows

Tim Redmond - December 18, 2017

At the Ed Lee memorial Sunday, a string of politicians who are not at all humble talked about the humble side of the late...

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Can we actually solve homelessness?

Tim Redmond - June 30, 2017

I told Audrey Cooper, the editor of the Chronicle, that 48hills would once again participate in the ongoing media series on homelessness in San...

News + Politics

Would a simple tax create 30,000 new housing units in SF?

Tim Redmond - March 8, 2017

Let us stipulate for a moment that there are reasonable people who have rational disagreements about some local policy issues. We can also agree...

News + Politics

Why SF’s City Planning Department doesn’t get it

John Elberling - February 12, 2017

There is no designated Sociologist position on the 200+ staff of San Francisco’s City Planning Department. And a bachelor/masters degree in Urban Planning can...

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The city could buy a vacant building for half the price of building new affordable housing

Homeless women take over vacant house in the Castro

Everyone has to sacrifice in these tough times — except the 1 percent

Breed Administration official says moving homeless people into hotel rooms is not a priority

An emergency platform for protecting unhoused people

Oakland moms make national statement with housing victory

More housing. Higher prices. That’s what a new city report shows

Can we actually solve homelessness?

Would a simple tax create 30,000 new housing units in SF?

Why SF’s City Planning Department doesn’t get it

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