SF Has the Funding and Housing Supply The Biden Administration’s  announcement that FEMA will pick up 100% of the costs to house the unhoused in hotels—it was previously 75%— should be a game-changer for San Francisco. Coupled with tens of
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Why Affluent San Francisco Remains Progressive San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is the most progressive in history. And it follows two decades of sharply rising housing prices and hyper-gentrification. Weren’t wealthier newcomers supposed to make the city more politically moderate?
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A Year of Conflict and Division San Francisco had a tough 2020. A local economy built on tourism saw its hotels, restaurants, bars and entertainment venues entirely closed down or restricted. Nevertheless, the political world —-public hearings, meetings of elected
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Mayor Often Foregoes Stakeholder Input 2020 has been terrible for America’s big city mayors. Cutbacks in public transit, restaurant and bar closures, huge numbers out of work and out of money—mayors bear the brunt of public anger over Trump and
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Walter Wong and City Hall “Corruption” According to Phil Matier’s December 6 SF Chronicle story, if former San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee were alive “he would be deep in the U.S. attorney’s investigation into corruption at City Hall.” Matier bases
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Incumbents Win Big; Philhour Takes Late Lead in D1 San Francisco stayed the course on Nov. 3, as mayor and supervisor-backed ballot measures all won and incumbent supervisors Dean Preston and Ahsha Safai won easily. But there may be one
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Our Picks for D1, D5, D7, D11 and State Senate San Francisco Board of Supervisors San Francisco has five Board races. Hillary Ronen is unopposed in D9.  And while Danny Sauter has run a spirited campaign against Aaron Peskin in
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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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