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Everyone but Mayor Lee sees SF's worsening "housing affordability crisis"
Homes should be for sale in San Francisco, but the city of San Francisco shouldn't be for sale.There was a clear theme that ran through yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting from beginning to end,...
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Guardian forum on Plan Bay Area draws big, engaged crowd
More than 130 people attended last night's Bay Guardian forum in the LGBT Center.San Franciscans who want to help shape how this city grows — rather than just leaving it up to regional planners and...
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Community awaits benefits as Lennar finally breaks ground in Hunters Point
Artist rendering of bayfront homes soon to be built after years of waiting.More than five years after San Francisco voters approved a massive redevelopment plan for the Hunters Point Shipyard and much...
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Into thin air
"Shareable housing" is causing apartments to vanish from SF's rental market — yet popular, profitable sites like Airbnb violate local lawsBy Steven T. Jones and Parker YeskoAirbnb is an audacious...
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Richmond gets radical, seizing foreclosed homes from banks
The banks have neglected their foreclosed homes in Richmond far more than the city and its residents would.Creative Commons/CoCoACCEAs a rule of thumb, we at the Guardian tend to believe that if the...
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Campos urges SF to explore using Richmond's eminent domain plan
San Francisco eminent domain?Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezHousing activists and Supervisor David Campos outside of City Hall Monday, September 9, announcing a resolution to explore using eminent...
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Threat to torpedo Richmond's plan to help home owners through eminent domain...
Early yetPhoto by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezThe crowd gathers at the Richmond city council meeting a full hour before it starts. By the time of the meeting all the seats on the floor were filled, and...
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Lee family quietly leaves home as activists pledge to push reforms
Gum Gee and Poor Heung Lee outside the Jackson Street home they left last night because of an Ellis Act eviction.Mike Koozmin/SF Print Media Co.Members of Lee family quietly moved out of their longtime...
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Tenant groups propose sweeping package to ease the "eviction epidemic"
Longtime progressive activist Ernestine Weiss was among the attendees at our "Housing for Whom?" forum last night.Tenant advocates today proposed a sweeping set of legislative proposals to address what...
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Angered by senior evictions, Filipino American activists decline award
A protest outside the International Hotel from 1977. Image from FoundSF.org.PHOTO BY EDDIE FORONDAThe board members of a local Filipino heritage organization, with ties to a high-profile eviction...
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Protesters to gather outside Twitter on IPO day
Those who stand to become instant millionaires from Twitter’s initial public offering might as well be worlds apart from a coalition of senior advocates, students, tenant organizers and union members...
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Hundreds attend hearing to call for action on evictions
Hene Kelly of Senior and Disability Action leads supporters in a chant calling for an end to evictions.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWETenants, organizers and residents impacted by Ellis Act evictions...
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Activists organize, and some journalists chronicle, a progressive resurgence...
Milk and Moscone championed progressive causes.APWhile Mayor Ed Lee jets around the world, still too focused on fueling the economic fire that is gentrifying San Francisco and displacing its diverse...
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No poetry or magic in being a robot
Monkey on your back, one of Kal Spelletich's art pieces.KALTEK.ORGI felt yesterday like I had been scooped after reading Jennifer Maerz’s post in the Bold Italic, which asked: Is Talking About High...
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SFUSD gifts city 115 affordable housing units for the holidays
Advocate asks board to approve the land swap project.Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezThe San Francisco Board of Education last night (Tue/10) approved a land swap with city government, gifting San...
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Mayor Lee orders affordable housing push
Mayor Ed Lee announces new housing directive, standing on a deck at Natoma street housing project flanked by officials.Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezMayor Ed Lee stood on the rooftop terrace between...
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Lee: Prioritize Affordable Housing
Mayor Ed Lee at a press conference on affordable housing Photo by Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguezjoe@sfbg.com Mayor Ed Lee announced an executive directive on Dec. 18 for all San Francisco government...
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Year of Evictions
As tech heated up the market in 2013, affordable housing became the dominant political issuePhotos: Mike Koozmin, Keeny + Law, Anti-Eviction Mapping ProjectThis New Year's Eve we take a look back at a...
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Manhattanization revisited
Is more, taller, and denser housing the answer to San Francisco's affordability crisis?The Guardian started writing about "the Manhattanization of San Francisco" more than 40 years ago.ILLUSTRATION BY...
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A radical proposal: Squat Airbnb hosts' homes to create affordable housing
Airbnb offers lots of neighborhoods and amenities for San Francisco's homeless to choose from.When I interviewed attorney Joseph Tobener for the story in our current issue on Airbnb being used to take...
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