December 2022 - Beyond Chron

San Francisco Politics 2022: The Year in Review

Posted December 15, 2022 by Randy Shaw

A Badly Divided City 2022 was a unique political year for San Francisco. Two major recall elections, two special Assembly elections, and the unseating of the first district elected incumbent in modern history. The city may not have been “divided Read More »

A Year Later, Tenderloin Still Requires Emergency Response

Posted December 12, 2022 by Randy Shaw

Should Newsom Send National Guard? Nearly one year ago San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a State of Emergency for the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood. It quickly became national news. The media loved portraying the mayor of “liberal” San Francisco as Read More »

Reviews From19th Another Hole In The Head Film Festival

Posted December 12, 2022 by Peter Wong

For horror aficionados, “The Curse” from Jose Mojica Marins might be called one of the special offerings of the 19th Another Hole In The Head Film Festival (hereafter “AHITH”). It’s the restoration of a supposedly lost story Marins, better known Read More »

New Book Details Atlanta’s Troubling Housing Strategy

Posted December 12, 2022 by Randy Shaw

Applying the Wrong Housing Lessons How did gentrification, displacement and racial and class exclusion occur in urban America? The common belief that these outcomes were driven by “the market” began being refuted in Robert Caro’s The Power Broker and Chester Read More »

Why Has SF’s Left Turned Against the Tenderloin?

Posted December 5, 2022 by Randy Shaw

Left Offers No Support for TL’s Immigrant Families For most of the past forty plus years the Tenderloin neighborhood drew strong support from the city’s political left. Today the situation has changed. The two left members of the Board of Read More »

San Francisco’s Most Significant Ballot Measure Ever

Posted December 5, 2022 by Randy Shaw

1992’s Prop H Still Benefits All Rent-Controlled Tenants Thirty years ago this week a San Francisco ballot measure took effect that brought the biggest progressive redistribution of wealth from landlords to tenants in the city’s history. Prop H was the Read More »