August 2021 - Beyond Chron

After Ending Exclusionary Zoning, What’s Next?

Posted August 31, 2021 by Randy Shaw

Three Strategies Moving Forward California’s move last week toward ending exclusionary single-family zoning raises the question: what should cities do next to increase housing? SB 9 allows duplexes, and SB 10 makes it easier for cities to upzone for up Read More »

Don Falk, SF Affordable Housing Champion, Retires from TNDC

Posted August 31, 2021 by Randy Shaw

A Giant for Affordable Housing Don Falk, who helped the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) add 37 buildings since 1994, is retiring from the organization. He leaves with a remarkable legacy. Falk’s expansion of affordable housing opportunities during this period Read More »

There Is a Lot at Stake in Recall Election: Don’t Sit This One Out

Posted August 31, 2021 by Street Blog Editors

This piece first appeared in Streetsblog USA A new governor — any new governor — could really muck up things that are already mucked up. The current narrative about the recall election in California goes something like this: It’s likely, Read More »

San Francisco Must Stop Deaths, Drugs, Violence at Turk and Hyde

Posted August 24, 2021 by Randy Shaw

Holding SFPD Accountable My recent story on the Tenderloin’s recovery led many to ask why the city allows an out of control drug market surrounding the Local 87-owned parking lot at Turk and Hyde. Hyde Street is the main car Read More »

Will CA End Exclusionary Zoning?

Posted August 24, 2021 by Randy Shaw

CA Progressives Split Over SB9 and SB10 As Californians focus on the Newsom recall, COVID, and wildfires, the state’s worst in the nation housing crisis persists. Yet one of the two big remaining bills to boost housing production—SB9 — faces Read More »

Mel Beetle, Tenant Organizer

Posted August 24, 2021 by Judy Goddess

Beetle’s SRO Activism Mel Beetle is the tenant organizer at the Raman Hotel, an 84-unit SRO on Howard at Sixth Street dedicated to serving seniors and people with disabilities. It’s a position he’s held for the past seven years. “As Read More »

Dances With Films Los Angeles Preview

Posted August 24, 2021 by Peter Wong

“Let’s get physical,” the slogan for this year’s Dances With Films Los Angeles (hereafter “Dances”), exhorts the film festival’s potential attendees to come to Los Angeles’ TCL Chinese 6 Theatres to watch the Dances selections for 2021. Dances is not Read More »

Newsom vs. Elder: Who Will California Choose?

Posted August 10, 2021 by Randy Shaw

Will CA Follow Florida and Texas on COVID? My story last week —- “Don’t Let the Insurrectionists Win: Urgent Action Needed to Defeat Newsom Recall”— coincided with others raising alarms over California’s September 14 recall election. Voters are realizing it’s Read More »