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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Why San Francisco Outdoes New York City on Tenants Rights

Posted May 22, 2018 by Randy Shaw

SF’s Success Offers Lessons for Other Cities The May 21 front-page NY Times story on New York City’s housing crisis highlights how the city has been outpaced by San Francisco in protecting tenants since the latter adopted rent control in
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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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South Bay Inflicts Pain on SF Renters

Posted August 8, 2017 by Randy Shaw

Last night in the south of San Francisco city of Brisbane, the City Council continued its deliberations over whether to include any housing on its “Baylands” site. The Brisbane Planning Commission has supported a project that includes two-million square feet
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Activists Blur the Tenderloin with the Mission

Posted March 24, 2016 by Randy Shaw

Activists Mistakenly View Tenderloin Projects Through a Mission Lens At the March 17 SF Planning Commission hearing on the Shorenstein Company’s 304-unit rental project in the Tenderloin (it passed 5-2), opponents argued it would cause displacement and gentrification.  Speakers saw
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Peskin, Lee Win Big in SF

Posted November 4, 2015 by Randy Shaw

Aaron Peskin won a major victory in the D3 Supervisor’s race, reassembling the North Beach/Telegraph Hill/Chinatown political coalition that easily won him re-election as supervisor in 2004. With 100 % of the vote counted Peskin defeated Julie Christensen by a
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Election Predictions, Nov. 2015

Posted November 2, 2015 by Randy Shaw

It’s been a long election season in San Francisco. And without further ado, here are my predictions in the key races whose outcome is not clear. District Three In 2012, I wrote a story that described Aaron Peskin’s shift from
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