ALL ISSUES
Tackling Homelessness In Super Bowl City
Protesters descend on Super Bowl City in San Francisco objecting to removal of homeless people in the lead up to the game.
Op-Ed: The Displacement Bomb Set To Explode SF
For the good of the City, your old apartment building could be torn down! You'll be figuring out the next few years living elsewhere, while some developer builds a new “affordable” unit for you. You will have to wait a few years to move back, if the new building even gets built.
SF Planning Director’s Record Of Displacement
San Francisco has become the cautionary tale for how not to develop a city in the 21st Century. Frequently derided as the most expensive housing market in the US, skyrocketing rents and mass evictions are forcibly displacing residents as the gap between the rich and the poor is growing faster than anywhere else in the US.
The Mission Takes San Francisco City Hall
Hundreds gather inside San Francisco City Hall to demand affordable housing and a stop on evictions and luxury housing in the Mission District.
Community Rejects Developer's Benefits Proposal
Community members distrust and anger drowns out a developers’ presentation, as they reject the "benefits agreement" for condos in San Francisco's Mission District. They say the condos will only make the class divides worse in this rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
Teacher Mic Checks Condo Developer
On March 4, 2015, proposed developers of market rate condos at 16th and Mission, Maximus Real Estate Partners, called a meeting to discuss the "community benefits" they intend to provide as part of the development. Hundreds of members of the Plaza 16 Coalition,* a group of community organizations, merchants and neighbors, showed up to voice their concerns.
Eviction Free San Francisco Occupies Paolo Shoe Store
On February 8, 2015, organizations from across San Francisco occupied Paolo shoe store on Fillmore Street owned by Sergio Iantorno's son Paolo.
Housing Near Transit For The Rich Or Poor?
On a blazing hot Saturday afternoon, several hundred people marched through the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District as part of a growing movement against a developer’s plans for condo buildings at one of the Bay Area’s busiest transit hubs.
Podcast: Why SF Residents Fight Development
[people. power. media] reporter Dyan Ruiz interviews longtime San Francisco housing activist Calvin Welch about why residents fight against development amidst the City's affordability crisis.
Op-Ed: Improving SF's Small Sites Program
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced the Small Sites Acquisition Program on August 11, 2014, which enables non-profit and for profit developers to purchase sites to maintain as affordable housing.
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.
San Francisco Tenant Faces 4th Eviction Attempt
Teresa Dulalas talks about her struggle to keep her home at the South of Market (SoMa) / Tenderloin Tenant Convention.
Toronto Public Housing Residents Bring Demands To Feds
In a historic protest, public housing residents brought their demand for repairs funding straight to the federal government on Nov. 20. This was the first time Toronto public housing residents joined forces with city representatives and travelled to Ottawa to bring attention to the affordable housing crisis.
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.