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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What Cities Can Learn From Boulder, Denver, Minneapolis

Posted March 11, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Housing Lessons From Between the Coasts I’m visiting three cities this week that I write about in Generation Priced Out: Boulder, Denver and Minneapolis. All offer lessons for other cities struggling to stop the pricing out of the working and
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Newsom’s 2004 Housing Vision Finally Popular

Posted February 12, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Governor Newsom’s  Housing Agenda Has Roots in 2004 Prop J Defeat In March 2004, newly-elected San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom suffered a devastating political defeat. His Prop J, the Workforce Housing Initiative, lost virtually every San Francisco neighborhood on route
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Groundbreaking for Market Street’s Signature Project

Posted October 23, 2018 by Randy Shaw

A Triumph Over Challenges at 950-974 Market On October 25, groundbreaking will begin on San Francisco’s most impactful development outside of the new Warriors arena. It takes place at 950-974 Market, a new hotel and condominium in two striking new
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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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Is the Tenderloin “Slowly Gentrifying”?

Posted March 6, 2018 by Randy Shaw

In her otherwise solid story on a San Francisco start-up attracting working people to live in SROs, New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles stated that the Tenderloin is “slowly gentrifying.” Curiously, she made that statement while interviewing someone on a
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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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