Randy Shaw

Randy Shaw is the Editor of Beyond Chron and the Director of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic, which publishes Beyond Chron. Shaw is the author of four books on activism, including The Activist's Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century, and Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century. His new book is The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco

Articles by Randy Shaw

Will SF Supes Back Luxury Homeowners Over Affordable Housing?

Posted June 18, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Supes Back Frivolous Appeals to Delay or Kill Affordable Housing In progressive San Francisco, all elected officials support affordable and teacher housing. So why are “progressive” supervisors not backing Mayor Breed’s charter amendment to speed up the approval process and
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Will Culver City and Santa Monica Build More Housing?

Posted June 18, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Westside Cities Must Address Affordability Crisis I’m going to Culver City (just outside Los Angeles) on June 19 to talk about my book, Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, and how the city must
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Democrats’ Housing Policies Worsen Climate Change

Posted June 12, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Key Democrats Prioritize Luxury Homeowners Over a Sustainable Future Since California’s Governor Newsom allowed Senate leader Toni Atkins to kill SB50, the state’s leading housing production bill (See “Democratic Leaders Fail California,” May 19), media criticism of the action has
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Our Homes, Our Votes Getting Housing Crisis on Presidential Campaign Radar

Posted June 12, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Long Overdue Strategy Offers Hope The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has launched the Our Homes, Our Votes: 2020, a non-partisan project urging presidential candidates to offer solutions to the nation’s affordable housing crisis. This strategy is long overdue.
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Can the SB50 Coalition Win Locally?

Posted June 10, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Next Steps for Housing Advocates In the wake of SB50’s shelving, housing advocates who put so much time into the CASA Compact process and SB50 cannot walk away. That would mean accepting the untenable housing status quo. So what are
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Democratic Leaders Fail California

Posted May 20, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Atkins Shelving of SB50 Reflects Pattern of Housing Inaction Last week’s shelving of SB50, the More HOMES Act, reminds us why California has the nation’s worst homelessness and housing affordability crisis. And that the housing emergency has intensified while California
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After SB50, Activists Must Push Cities to Boost Housing

Posted May 16, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Legislators Backroom Deal Kills New Housing Today’s shelving of California’s SB50 came as a shock to me and seemingly everyone following the bill. Yesterday, the day before the Senate Appropriation Committee’s hearing, there were reports that the bill could be
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Are Cities’ Housing Policies Making a Difference?

Posted May 14, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Many Cities Advance Inadequate “Middle Ground” Strategies As the urban affordability crisis increases homelessness and prices out the working and middle-class, cities are responding in various ways. But to paraphrase the Los Angeles Times (“L.A. Spent $619 million on homelessness
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