California’s Housing Fix: Can Newsom Succeed Where Jerry Brown Failed?

Posted January 28, 2020 by Randy Shaw

This Week’s SB50 Vote Will Chart CA’s Future California’s State Senate makes a huge decision this week. Ideally it moves SB 50 to the Assembly, preserving the only real strategy for addressing the state’s housing shortage. But the Senate can
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Where is SF’s Tenderloin?

Posted January 28, 2020 by Randy Shaw

Stop Placing Market Street Crimes in the Tenderloin The San Francisco Chronicle wrote last week about an armed robbery incident inside a stereo store at 1080 Market Street in San Francisco. Although this address is solidly in the Mid-Market neighborhood,
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Reviews From 22nd San Francisco Independent Film Festival

Posted January 28, 2020 by Peter Wong

Seth Ickerman’s extended music video “Blood Machines” would have worked far better as a silent film with intertitles. The script may not be filled with half-baked moralizing about whether A.I.s can become human. Yet it doesn’t even offer any halfway
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Blame Cities for Inaction on Climate Change

Posted January 21, 2020 by Randy Shaw

Don’t Blame Big Oil for Cities Refusal to Combat Climate Change At last week’s Democratic Debate, both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders highlighted the corruption of the fossil fuel industry in preventing the United States from slowing global warming. No
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California: It’s Time for SB 50

Posted January 21, 2020 by Luke Klipp

Australia is being scorched; a Florida community has been flooded since September; and in LA in 2019 we set a record for the number of consecutive days with unhealthy air quality, breaking the record set just set one year prior.
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To Win Texas, Mobilize Texas Latinos

Posted January 21, 2020 by Albert Morales

Originally posted by Latino Decisions. Happy New Year. It’s 2020 and a new decade dawns with what may be the most important presidential election in generations. During the holidays, my mind was on Texas and it occurred to me that
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Why Are Local Politicians Denying Housing to the Middle-Class?

Posted January 14, 2020 by Randy Shaw

SB50 Provides CA’s Only Middle-Class Housing Strategy Do San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, Sacramento, San Diego or other California cities provide ample housing opportunities for a new generation of middle-class residents? Absolutely not. Few politicians in these
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Westwood Village Needs SB 50

Posted January 14, 2020 by Grayson Peters

California is in the midst of a housing unaffordability crisis rooted in a severe shortage of homes. By the end of this month, the State Senate will vote on San Francisco Senator Scott Weiner’s Senate Bill 50, which would require
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