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Tagged with: Zoning

Governor’s housing plan promoted at closed-door meeting with Mayor Lee

I went to the strangest press conference today. Ed Lee was there; so was Ben Metcalf, who is Gov. Jerry Brown’s director of housing...

Why are so many people homeless in SF?

Editors note: The SF Chronicle is leading an effort to get local news media to report on homelessness this week. We are happy to...

Illegal office conversion: A case study

At the May 18 meeting of the San Francisco Board of Appeals, attorney James Reuben, a principal of Reuben, Junius & Rose, showed why...

Terrible housing bill slowed down — for now

California came within days of adopting a law that would have taken away the right of the public to have a hearing about major...

Can we stop the displacement of arts space and industry?

Sup Jane Kim is drafting legislation that seeks to strongly deter the destruction epidemic that is attacking arts and industrial spaces in the Mission,...

A terrible housing bill looms in Sacramento

The State Assembly may vote as early as Monday on a bill that would give real estate developers a huge windfall at the expense...

Why allowing more housing makes property more expensive

Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, director of the Housing Rights Committee, stood on the steps of City Hall yesterday morning and explained why allowing the free market...

Eileen Hansen, fighter for the Good Fight, has died and we all miss her

San Francisco lost a fighter, a progressive leader, and a friend to many of us April 29 when Eileen Hansen died of cancer. She...

Nimbys, SFBARF, and a clueless writer at the NY Times

The easy thing to do is just try to ignore the likes of SFBARF and hope they will go away. But they don’t, and...

Regional government sells out Bay Area cities

  I’ve been covering the current power struggle between the Association of Bay Area Governments, our region’s land use planning authority, and its transportation planning...