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
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Treating a Community With Contempt Should Not Be Rewarded In a huge victory for San Francisco’s Tenderloin, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will hear the community’s appeal of a project at 450 O’Farrell that the entire neighborhood opposed. The
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Workers, Businesses Await Tourism Revival The pandemic has shown how dependent San Francisco’s working and middle-class is on a thriving tourist industry. The hospitality industry offers the city’s largest share of blue-collar jobs. Its virtual closure has been devastating. Thousands
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San Francisco Must Choose: Inclusion Or Exclusion? The fight over an affordable housing project in the Sunset neighborhood has forced San Francisco to face its core contradiction: it’s a “progressive” city with zoning that promotes economic and racial segregation. That’s
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Small Businesses Need Reopened Government Buildings If you visit San Francisco’s Civic Center, Mid-Market or downtown, you might wonder whether you only imagined Governor Newsom’s June 15 announcement “reopening” California. These virtual ghost neighborhoods still await the return of the
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Activists Also Need Code of Conduct San Francisco politics is no joyride. Its toxicity goes well beyond “bullying” by City Hall officials. That a progressive activist recently felt entitled to steal school recall petitions reflects a city that often rewards
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6000 Housing Placements by June 2022 San Francisco Mayor London Breed is earmarking $1billion to combat homelessness. The goal is 6,000 housing placements by June 2022, an ambitious but achievable target —- if the city does it right. Will the
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Bringing Affordable Housing to the Westside San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood is at the center of a housing debate that will shape the city’s future. It involves a 100% affordable project designed to house the working families who long lived in
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