A throng of supporters including neighbors and activists joined the residents of 1353 Folsom Street this afternoon as they held a rally to condemn their landlord’s plans to evict them under the state Ellis Act. Teresa Dulalas has lived in
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Ellis evictions have almost tripled in the last 6 months, compared to the previous six months and have settled into levels exceeding what they were during the worst of the dot-com years. In fact, a combination of the dot-com crash
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Passage of Mayor Newsom’s current housing bond proposal will require support from tenants living in buildings whose landlords are sure to passthrough 50% of the bond costs. If ParkMerced is any example, getting tenants to subsidize homeownership for those earning
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The world of chess has seen it’s ups and downs, but I can’t ever recall a time like this one. The great American grandmaster Bobby Fischer had been in a self-imposed exile since his world chess championship victory in 1972
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Last November voters approved Prop H a ballot measure that was thought to be the saving grace of the San Francisco Police Department. Voters flocked to the polls and chose reform over the same ol’ same ol’. After the appointments
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