San Francisco Forgets Housing Lessons of Dot-Com Boom

Posted October 29, 2019 by Randy Shaw

South Bay Jobs Boost SF Evictions, Rents One year ago, the University of California Press released Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. My book outlines the causes of the urban housing crisis and offers
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The Untold Story of Grassroots Activism’s Power

Posted October 29, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Media Ignores How Activism Saved Brooklyn Navy Yard Wegman’s grocery store has come to Brooklyn. And according to the New York Times‘ always perceptive Ginia Bellafante, New Yorkers are “losing their minds.” I was unaware of Wegman’s until last week.
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Schumer Pushes Electric Cars — Here’s Why He’s Wrong

Posted October 29, 2019 by Aaron Short

This piece first appeared in Streetsblog USA Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s revealed in the New York Times on Friday that he wants to get drivers to swap their gas-slurping vehicles for electric ones, but the plan is one of
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Why Do San Francisco Voters Favor Local Incumbents?

Posted October 22, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Re-Electing Locally Elected Incumbents is Almost Automatic Many wonder why San Francisco Mayor London Breed is essentially running unopposed. The short answer is that her strong performance upon taking office denied an opening for a challenger. This enabled her to
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How Buses and Bicycling Improve Cities

Posted October 22, 2019 by Randy Shaw

New Books Highlight Green Transit Strategies From New York City’s 14th Street to San Francisco’s Market Street, cities are finally stopping cars from dominating the urban landscape. But there is much work left to be done. This makes two new
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22nd United Nations Association Film Festival Reviews

Posted October 22, 2019 by Peter Wong

Whatever feelings a person may have about the Chinese government’s machinery of dissention repression, its effectiveness in obstructing political naysaying can’t be denied. The Great Firewall of China blocks Chinese Internet users from easily accessing information about their government’s brutal
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New California Sexual Abuse Law Could Drown USA Swimming

Posted October 22, 2019 by Irvin Muchnick

Last year I told Beyond Chron readers how the outrage of widespread and enabled coach sexual abuse of kids in “national sport governing bodies,” under the auspices of the U.S. Olympic Committee, was about to explode above ground at long
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5 Blocks: A Must See Film on SF’s Mid-Market

Posted October 22, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Film Shows Thursday Night at Tenderloin Museum San Francisco’s Mid-Market may be the city’s least understood neighborhood. While everyone agrees that Mid-Market’s long decline needs to be reversed, there is disagreement on how to accomplish this and what defines “success.”
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