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A map of SF's wealth -- and poverty
There's a cool interactive map that gives you a visual picture of wealth and poverty in San Francisco. Check it out here. Just type in "San Francisco, CA" and click "income."What you see is a city full...
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The Mission 'douchebags'
Okay, you have to read this. When a 1990s tech-startup guy who admits he was part of the last generation of gentrification is now so fed up with the new arrival of high-paid techies that he's ready to...
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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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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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Mantra from the Milk/Moscone memorial march: "Fight back!"
Activists march from the Castro to City Hall.Luke ThomasHundreds of activists and progressive San Franciscans marked the 35th anniversary of the Mayor George Moscone and Sup. Harvey Milk assassinations...
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SF Board of Supervisors approves new tenant protections
Housing affordability has become the top issue in San Francisco, as today's meeting reinforced.Rebecca BoweThe Board of Supervisors today (Tues/17) gave unanimous final approval to legislation aimed at...
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Debunking SF Mag’s Ellis Act apologist article, point by point
San Francisco Magazine's "The Power Issue" features Ed Lee front and center.Well, everyone’s got an opinion. And when it comes to San Francisco’s housing crisis, that’s doubly true.San Francisco...
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The SFMTA could legally charge commuter shuttles a higher fee
Under a newly approved pilot program that sanctions private commuter shuttles' use of San Francisco public bus stops, shuttle operators will be made to pay a fee of $1 per stop, per day.Many community...
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Controversial housing proposal at 16th and Mission follows calls to "Clean up...
Artist rendering of the 10-story housing project proposed for 16th and Mission streets.El Tecolote had a great cover story last week about the coalition that has formed to oppose a large housing...
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Ammiano and Leno seek to reform the Ellis Act and slow SF evictions
Tom AmmianoState lawmakers from San Francisco are launching a two-pronged attack on the Ellis Act, which real estate speculators are increasingly using to evict tenants from rent-controlled apartments...
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Barroom backchannel
Can tech workers and progressive activists cooperate in the fight against displacement? Maybe, but don't tell their bosses.joe@sfbg.comAmid the political turmoil in the city around evictions of...
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Happy May Day, San Francisco
Happy May Day, comrades, and what a fine May day it is even if the urgent mayday spirit on this International Workers Day doesn’t seem as strong as some recent years past in the Bay Area.While Russia...
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Picture of SF's extreme income equality worth thousands of words
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project uses Brookings Institute data to show SF's fast-growing income gap.Sometimes visuals paint a picture in a visceral way that mere numbers can’t, and that was the case...
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Supervisors reject Pinterest proposal, protect PDR businesses from eviction
A spirited hearing before the Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee yesterday [Mon/7] on the San Francisco Design Center’s application for landmark status kept social...
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The age of the brogrammer
Solving tech's diversity problem may be a key to saving San Francisco"Die techie scum." Those words are sprayed ominously on sidewalks throughout San Francisco. They're plastered on stickers stamped on...
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Anti-Eviction Mapping Project highlights Urban Green's record of displacement
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s latest creation illustrates the eviction history of Urban Green Investments, a San Francisco-based real estate company that was recently put in the spotlight with...
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Landlord plaintiff in eviction fee case has history of tenant law violations
The Eviction Free Summer of activism and housing reform legislation is now transitioning into courtroom battles.Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezSan Francisco landlord attorneys filed a lawsuit on Thursday...
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Tenants target Airbnb rentals before hearings on regulatory legislation
Sticker that SFTU plans to place on buildings with illegally converted apartments all over San Francisco.As the San Francisco Planning Commission prepares for an Aug. 7 hearing on Sup. David Chiu’s...
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Realtors give $600,000 to defeat anti-speculation tax
flipproperties.orgTwo Realtor groups have dumped nearly $600,000 into the campaign against Prop. G, the tax on flipping properties to discourage real estate speculation and evictions in San Francisco,...
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Rising tenant buyouts in SF targeted by new legislation and map
A new interactive map published today by the Anti Eviction Mapping Project shows the spike in tenancy buyouts over the last year in San Francisco, just in time to raise awareness for Sup. David Campos’...
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