After a comeback win in the State Senate, San Francisco’s Ellis Act reform bill (SB 1439) faces a critical June 18 vote in the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee. It’s already proving a tough fight. Landlord interests have nothing
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Amidst an ever-increasing background of displacement and Ellis Act evictions of lower income households in San Francisco, the San Francisco Community Land Trust (Land Trust) has prevented the displacement of 14 low-income residents in the Mission District buy purchasing the
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The agreement for a San Francisco minimum wage hike is great news for fast food and other very low paid workers. But many city-funded nonprofit workers also need a raise. They already earn more than the local minimum, yet are
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A coalition of youth groups gathered on June 11 with over 100 of their members to rally in support of the Board of Supervisor’s proposed ballot initiative to extend and expand the widely successful Children’s Fund Amendment. The Children’s Fund,
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Mayor Lee, supervisors and representatives of workers’ rights, nonprofit, and business groups announced on June 10 that San Francisco will move forward with a consensus minimum wage ballot measure for November. The measure raises what would otherwise be an $11.03
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There is a quiet war raging in San Francisco’s housing community. It concerns Supervisor Jane Kim’s proposal for a housing balance, a strategy designed to ensure that market-rate housing does not exceed 70% of the total housing built. Proponents argue
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Amidst all the talk about extending the accreditation of City College San Francisco (CCSF), something very important has been insufficiently reported. That is the fact that ACCJC is under effective “show cause” and may have its authorization revoked in 2015.
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