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

Progress, Sense of Urgency Greets YIMBYtown 2018

Posted September 18, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Rising Movement to Build Housing in Neighborhoods When historians try to discover when YIMBYs became mainstream, they may point to the September 12, 2018 Jeopardy game show. It included the answer, “YIMBY Stands for This, As Some Neighborhoods are Okay
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No Regional Solution to Homelessness

Posted September 18, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Cities Won’t Be Compelled to Spend A recent SF Chronicle story characterized as a “new idea” plans to build Navigation Centers outside San Francisco. It’s actually less of a “new” idea than a variation of a long hoped homelessness cure
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Why Can’t YIMBYs and Tenant Activists Get Along?

Posted September 11, 2018 by Randy Shaw

A YIMBY activist with East Bay for Everyone recently tweeted support for a yard sign (photo above) promoting a welcoming attitude toward tenants and the building of triplexes and fourplexes in single family home neighborhoods. The sign states “In Our
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Who’s to Blame for SF’s Open Drug Dealing?

Posted September 4, 2018 by Randy Shaw

SF Fails Equity Test on Public Safety Despite all the media coverage about open drug dealing in such areas as UN Plaza, Mid-Market, the western Tenderloin and the Mission’s 16th Street corridor, no person nor agency has been held accountable
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Kathleen Lammers and 1980’s San Francisco

Posted September 4, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Remembering a Champion for SF’s Seniors Kathleen Lammers should have celebrated her 71st birthday on September 5. But the champion for seniors had her life cut short by cancer in 1995, years before her first Social Security check. I was
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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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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.

“Costa Hawkins Repeal Will