San Francisco’s Bright Future

Posted October 20, 2020 by Randy Shaw

The City’s Core Strengths Remain Many seem convinced: San Francisco faces a troubling future. The evidence? We are told: *people are relocating from cities to suburbs; *tech workers, free to work at home, prefer living outside San Francisco; *the city’s
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San Francisco Needs the Radical Power of Commissions: Yes on Prop B

Posted October 20, 2020 by Randy Shaw

Prop B Brings Essential Public Input for Cleaner Streets San Francisco’s Prop B creates a new Department of Sanitation and Streets overseen by a commission. It is not without opposition. For example, SPUR argues that “past experience in San Francisco
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Vancouver Council Votes for $1-Billion SRO Purchase Plan

Posted October 20, 2020 by Jen St. Denis

(Editor’s Note: Last week, Vancouver announced a dramatic plan to buy up to 105 of the city’s SRO hotels. I was flown up to the city in 2016 to talk to city officials about upgrading their SRO stock. I saw
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Interview With Chelsea Christer, Director of “Bleeding Audio”

Posted October 20, 2020 by Peter Wong

San Francisco-based film director Chelsea Christer comes full circle this week. Back in 2005, Christer was a teenager growing up in “a small conservative town in the middle of Colorado.” Attending the Epitaph Tour’s concert at Denver’s Ogden Theatre, she
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Is Ronen Headed for SF’s Board Presidency?

Posted October 13, 2020 by Randy Shaw

SF Supervisor Races Will Decide Presidency In the months leading up to the January 2019 vote for Board President D9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen openly campaigned for the position. Her supporters spoke on her behalf for nearly two hours before the
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Will Minneapolis 2040 Live Up to its Promise?

Posted October 13, 2020 by Janne Flisrand

The City of Minneapolis invites comment on the Built Form Rezoning Study through October 19th. Minneapolis spent 2018 discussing the merits of the Minneapolis 2040 plan. As a city, there is wide consensus that we face three critical and interconnected
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Community Land Trusts: The True “Social” Housing

Posted October 13, 2020 by Randy Shaw

New Book Highlights Vital Affordable Housing Model As demand for affordable housing grows across the United States and the world, the question has emerged: what are the best affordable housing strategies? A new book, On Common Ground: International Perspectives on
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37th Mill Valley Film Festival Reviews

Posted October 13, 2020 by Peter Wong

37th Mill Valley Film Festival opener Ariel Winograd’s “The Heist Of The Century” inventively entertains and brings out a viewer’s vicarious miscreant. It recreates the planning and execution of the 2006 Banco Rio bank robbery, a Buenos Aires caper that
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