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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SB 50: Development Without Displacement

Posted April 2, 2019 by Randy Shaw

California Must End Anti-Renter Exclusionary Zoning “Development without displacement is the key. Fighting against displacement rather than fighting against development should be the focus.”—NLIHC’s “Tenant Talk,” Spring 2019 SB 50, California’s most far reaching housing production bill ever, has its
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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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Momentum Builds for SB 50

Posted December 11, 2018 by Randy Shaw

California Bill Could Become National Model In the same week that Minneapolis passed historic legislation legalizing apartments in single-family zoned neighborhoods, California legislators introduced SB 50, a far reaching state challenge to exclusionary zoning laws. Sponsored by Bay Area State
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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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Will Mayor Breed Endorsement Shift D6 Race?

Posted August 28, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Polls Show Open Race San Francisco Mayor London Breed has duo endorsed Christine Johnson and Sonja Trauss in the D6 supervisor’s race. Her announcement followed the two candidates publicly aligning their campaigns earlier in the week, and came only days
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D8, Housing, Judges: SF’s Other Top June Races

Posted May 10, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Prop C’s Own “Poison Pill” and the Politics of Housing In addition to its mayor’s race San Francisco has a hard fought battle for supervisor in District 8, ballot measures for childcare and affordable housing /homelessness, and four competitive judicial
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Will Parkmerced Set Precedent for Westside Development? It Already Has

Posted January 16, 2018 by Garrett Bergthold

  Wiener’s SB 837 Could Bring Even More Westside Housing Richard Brandi remembers growing up in 1960s San Francisco like it was yesterday. The architectural historian attended Lick-Wilmerding High School in Ingleside, not far from his childhood home in Visitation
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