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Why Prop. X is needed to save PDR

Zelda Bronstein - October 22, 2016

San Francisco’s artists, small blue-collar businesses, and community-serving nonprofits are being forced out of the city by soaring rents; outright evictions; and, in many...

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Obama’s supply-side toolkit attacks local housing policy

Calvin Welch - October 4, 2016

On September 27th the Obama administration released a "Housing Development Toolkit" promoting a deregulation program for market rate housing development at the local level....

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The Eastern Neighborhoods Plan is a bust

Tim Redmond - September 22, 2016

The Planning Commission heard a report on the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan, which has guided development in a huge swath of the city, and from...

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The real housing record of London Breed

Calvin Welch - September 12, 2016

Sup. London Breed’s campaign website makes the ambiguous claim that she is “creating more affordable housing,” as if she has a hammer and is...

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Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

Zelda Bronstein - September 2, 2016

On August 10, Kate Vershov Downing, a 31-year-old intellectual-property lawyer, set the media aflutter when she posted on Medium a letter to the Palo...

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Supes vote to protect arts space after some disingenuous whining

Tim Redmond - August 3, 2016

The Board of Supes put a measure to protect artist workspace and blue-collar jobs on the ballot yesterday after a long discussion about why...

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

Tim Redmond - July 20, 2016

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...

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Why are so many people homeless in SF?

Tim Redmond - June 27, 2016

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

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Illegal office conversion: A case study

Zelda Bronstein - June 17, 2016

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

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Terrible housing bill slowed down — for now

Tim Redmond - June 10, 2016

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

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Why Prop. X is needed to save PDR

Obama’s supply-side toolkit attacks local housing policy

The Eastern Neighborhoods Plan is a bust

The real housing record of London Breed

Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

Supes vote to protect arts space after some disingenuous whining

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

Why are so many people homeless in SF?

Illegal office conversion: A case study

Terrible housing bill slowed down — for now

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