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Condos Overshadow Public School
California is 50th in the nation for per student public school funding. So what happens when a huge condo development is proposed for the site adjacent a public Spanish immersion Elementary School whose play yard would be overshadowed by the new condo towers?
Fighting To Stay: Stopping Evictions In SF
As the economy heats up in San Francisco, tenants struggle to remain in the city despite an increase in evictions.
Op-Ed: Why There's Google Buses In SF
What shifting economies and attitudes to America's new "clean" cities have to do with private tech buses in San Francisco.
Pushing For A Higher SF Minimum Wage
San Francisco’s new minimum wage could be highest in the country if passed on the November 2014 ballot. Community and labor groups that make up the Coalition for a Fair Economy are pushing for a higher minimum wage as rents in the San Francisco also top all other US cities.
Dyan Speaks On News Literacy Panel
[people. power. media] Co-founder, Dyan Ruiz, speaks on how news literacy is a two-way street between newsrooms and communities they report on. She explains the different ways that community input and participation is critical to the reporting philosophy of [people. power. media].
First Protest Against Monster In The Mission
The Plaza 16 Coalition rallies against condominiums proposed to be built at the northeast corner of 16th and Mission at one of San Francisco’s busiest intersections.
Op-Ed: 100% Affordable Housing Near Transit
New market rate housing proposes to rip through the heart of the Mission with the ultimate irony. Planners think they’re realizing the dream of “Transit Oriented Development” by allowing high density housing adjacent to one of the Bay Area’s busiest transit hubs. Victory at last! But who will live there?
A Vote For Affordable Housing
Community groups mobilize to pass a dedicated fund for affordable housing in San Francisco.
Elderly Family’s Eviction Fuels Housing Rights Movement
An elderly Chinese American couple, Gum Gee Lee and her husband Poon Heung Lee—and their disabled 48 year-old daughter Shiuman Lee—were about to be physically removed from their home of 34 years by deputy sheriffs following a court order to carry out yet another Ellis Act eviction.
San Francisco's Garage Homes
A look at the push to legalize San Francisco in-law units, unregulated apartments often found in garages.
California Domestic Workers Demand Bill Of Rights
California Domestic Workers and advocates meet with legislators at the California capital on Mother's Day to demand the passage of a Bill of Rights to protect their workers.