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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...

Arts + Culture

Psychic Eye Records’ new compilation shows darkwave support for TGI Justice Project

Caitlin Donohue - January 21, 2019

For those who would like to wrap themselves up in a Bay Area darkwave shroud to beat the winter chill; Psychic Eye Records just...

News + Politics

Some sanity — and insanity — at the Planning Commission

Tim Redmond - January 17, 2019

The San Francisco Planning Commission heard some stunning information about the affordable housing crisis today – and the gallery was largely empty. “I am surprised...

News + Politics

PG&E is in bankruptcy court — and public power may be the only way out

Tim Redmond - January 14, 2019

It was, in a weird way, ironic to hear on NPR today that PG&E is one of the first companies that is directly impacted...

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...

Foreign Correspondent

Trump: The sudden anti-war champion?

Reese Erlich - December 28, 2018

Last week President Donald Trump surprised the world, and much of his own staff, by announcing plans to pull more than 2,000 US troops...

News + Politics

Conservatorship: The new ‘ugly laws’

Tiny - December 17, 2018

“This (conservatorship law) sounds like slavery to me,” Memphis, houseless poverty skola reporter for POOR Magazine’s RoofLESS radio, reported after a terrifying town hall on...

News + Politics

Central Soma: The fix is in at City Planning

John Elberling - December 11, 2018

Mayor London Breed has now signed the legislation approved by the Board of Supervisors approving the Central Soma Plan that will spearhead the “Gig...

News + Politics

A new housing ‘compact’ looks a lot like a developer’s dream

Tim Redmond - December 9, 2018

With State Sen. Scott Wiener’s new housing bill now pending, a group convened by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission has released a draft plan to...

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