Will Mayor Breed Endorsement Shift D6 Race?

Posted August 28, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Polls Show Open Race San Francisco Mayor London Breed has duo endorsed Christine Johnson and Sonja Trauss in the D6 supervisor’s race. Her announcement followed the two candidates publicly aligning their campaigns earlier in the week, and came only days
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The “Common” Real Estate Group Steals Housing From SF’s Poor

Posted August 28, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Real Estate Investors Jeopardize Step Up Housing “Dramatically expand “step up housing,” in which long-term supportive housing tenants with “Moving On” vouchers (similar to Section 8) move into apartments or SROs and thus free up spaces in master leased hotels.”
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Los Angeles Tenants: The Rent’s Getting Too Damn High!

Posted August 28, 2018 by Jessica Goodheart

(This piece first appeared in Capital and Main) A local dispute over evictions highlights the emergence of a tenants movement that is pushing back against rapacious landlords and a nationwide housing affordability crisis. California tenants are taking their grievances to
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Big Real Estate’s 5 Biggest Lies About Prop 10

Posted August 21, 2018 by Randy Shaw

The Truth About Costa Hawkins Repeal As Big Real Estate spends millions to defeat California’s Prop 10 (which repeals the Costa Hawkins Act), its falsehoods are coming fast and furious. Here are five of the biggest.

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Law Breaking at Pacific Heights’ El Drisco Hotel

Posted August 21, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Likely Years of Illegal Tourist Rentals City housing inspectors at the Department of Building Inspection have uncovered flagrant law breaking at Pacific Heights’ ritzy El Drisco Hotel, 2901 Pacific Avenue. A June 2018 inspection found that “based on a review
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Brian Gruber’s “Billy Cobham – Six Days at Ronnie Scott’s”

Posted August 21, 2018 by E. “Doc” Smith

Brian Gruber’s fantastic new book about the legendary drummer Billy Cobham, “Six Days at Ronnie Scott’s”, is perhaps the greatest tome ever written about one of the most influential musicians of this, or any era. Cobham, now 70 plus years
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SF’s Homeless Spending Myth

Posted August 14, 2018 by Randy Shaw

The Truth: Homeless Spending Makes a Difference “San Francisco already is spending more than $300 million a year on homelessness and the problem seems to be getting worse. I’d have to be convinced that taxing San Francisco hundreds of millions
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BART Housing Bill Goes Down to Wire

Posted August 14, 2018 by Michael Lane

AB 2923 would enable the creation of thousands of new affordable homes at and around BART stations As our state lawmakers return from summer recess and get back to unfinished business, there remain a number of critical bills needed to
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