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Supervisors approve condo legislation with veto-proof majority
Tenant supporters lined the hall wearing stickers that said, "Stop Evictions. Save Rent Control Housing. Support the Compromise.Steven T. JonesThe San Francisco Board of Supervisors today voted to...
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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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Anti-gentrification activists “GET OUT” with Pride
A group of activists used the Pride Parade to make a political statement by marching with a faux Google bus, an action meant to call attention to gentrification in San Francisco. They rented a white...
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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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"Eviction Free Summer" activists show up outside a landlord's office to...
On July 2, activists from "Eviction Free Summer," formed to defend tenants facing eviction, gathered outside landlord Rick Holman's South Park office building in San Francisco to protest an eviction...
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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 lawsAirbnb is an audacious corporation, particularly in San...
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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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Plan Bay Area takes legal punches from the left and right
Our May 28 cover story outlined Plan Bay Area's huge impacts to San Francisco.Plan Bay Area, the regional strategy to funnel future population growth into San Francisco and other big cities in order to...
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Evictions and gentrification fuel widespread concern in the Mission
Erick Arguello of Calle 24 said lower 24th Street has witnessed an onslaught of real-estate speculators.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEA mix of neighborhood merchants, community activists and a couple...
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Airbnb makes small admission on tax issue, saying its hosts should pay
Airbnb creates pages for each major San Francisco neighborhood, but it won't charge guests the taxes they owe.Under pressure in San Francisco and New York City for violating local tenant and land use...
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Market Street tenants still facing uncertainty
Victor Arreola has lived at 1049 Market Street for 14 years and says he can't stay in San Francisco if he's forced out.GUARDIAN PHOTOS BY REBECCA BOWEAnxiety continues to run high at 1049 Market Street...
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Guardian forum examines who San Francisco is building housing for
Our original intention for “Housing for Whom?” — a Bay Guardian community forum tomorrrow night (Wed/23) at the LGBT Center — was to look at the hottest items on an otherwise lackluster fall election:...
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Activists organize, and some journalists chronicle, a progressive resurgence...
Milk and Moscone championed progressive causes.While 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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The unanswered question: How do we bridge SF's affordable housing gap?
The Bridge Housing media roundtable on March 14 couldn't answer the fundamental housing affordability question.Steven T. JonesNobody has a good answer to San Francisco’s most basic housing problem: How...
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Seeking technology and economic/social justice columnists
The Bay Guardian is looking for a pair of new freelance writers to do separate monthly columns covering the technology industry and economic/social justice issues. The two new columns would go into a...
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The sordid saga of Airbnb -- a $10 billion "outlaw middleman" -- continues
SF-based Airbnb is making news again this week, from the San Francisco Chronicle following up our stories about how landlords are sending eviction notices to tenants who are breaking their leases and...
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Leno's Ellis Act reform bill clears first legislative hurdle
Sen. Mark LenoSen. Mark Leno’s Senate Bill 1439 — which would protect rent-controlled housing in San Francisco by amending the Ellis Act, including making property owners wait at least five years after...
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The politics behind today's dueling Airbnb rallies
Critics of Airbnb include (from left) Brian Basinger, Aaron Peskin, Calvin Welch, Mike Casey, and Janan New.Steven T. JonesToday’s dueling rallies at City Hall on whether to fully ban or fully allow...
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Lawsuit claims SROs owned by city contractors are unsafe, moldy,...
Definitely not your ideal roommate.It's often rumored that housing conditions in certain single-room occupancy hotels, or SROs, throughout San Francisco are atrocious. And when it comes to SROs under...
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