Special Report: Why Tenants Need SB50

Posted April 17, 2019 by Randy Shaw

SB50 Opens Gentrified Neighborhoods to Working and Middle-Class Residents California’s SB 50, with lead co-sponsors Senators Nancy Skinner and Scott Wiener, expands housing opportunities for working and middle-class tenants who have been priced out of cities. So why do many
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Prop 10 Has Already Won

Posted October 30, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Building Momentum for Future Tenant Victories Last week’s poll by the Public Policy Institute of California that had California’s Prop 10 trailing badly (60% say they will vote no) led some to conclude that a big defeat would set back
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Pro-Housing Voters Must Get Political

Posted May 31, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Housing Must Become Election Priority This week’s Berkeley City Council vote against a measure designed to build housing on BART parking lots (AB 2923) offers a wake- up call to pro-housing advocates. Berkeley voters would overwhelmingly back a ballot measure
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Central SOMA Exposes SF’s Political Identity Crisis

Posted March 13, 2018 by Randy Shaw

YIMBYs Lead Effort to Protect Tenants from Central SOMA Plan For the first time since San Francisco’s 1970’s downtown highrise boom, activists are demanding that new office space—-in this case in Central SOMA— be balanced by new housing. This concern
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SF Supes Races Missing Issues

Posted September 26, 2016 by Randy Shaw

Voters in the upcoming San Francisco Supervisor elections face a hard task differentiating between candidates on the issues.  Instead of candidates promoting their positions on future key legislation, the races are about slogans. Candidates are vowing to “stand up to
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6 SF Poet Laureates Condemn Diego De Leo Eviction

Posted August 4, 2016 by Randy Shaw

In an unprecedented show of support, six San Francisco Poet Laureates have authored a letter condemning the Ellis eviction of North Beach poet Diego De Leo. De Leo’s case is set for trial on August 22. The poets signing the
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Dancer, Cultural Asset Faces Ellis Eviction from Bernal Heights

Posted July 26, 2016 by Stephen P. Booth, Eq.

Landlord’s Ellis Effort Targets Another Valuable Cultural Contributor By serving a 120-day Ellis Act notice, a greedy landlord can wipe away and exclude persons who have contributed a lifetime to a community, whose efforts have worked to make the neighborhood
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Peskin Moves to Save SRO Hotels

Posted April 25, 2016 by Randy Shaw

Last week, Supervisor Aaron Peskin announced plans to strengthen San Francisco’s landmark SRO hotel conversion and demolition ordinance (Chapter 41 of the SF Administrative Code, hereafter “the HCO”). This law, which originally passed in 1981 and was then significantly strengthened
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