The unfortunate fact is, city leaders in a lot of cities, including San Francisco, plus state and federal leaders, don’t want to solve the homeless problem. They just want it to dissapear, to make being homeless a crime and shove the homeless into prison or a morgue.

Press Release: Board of Supervisors Passes Supervisor Wiener’s Legislation to Streamline Affordable Housing Production

Ordinance will expedite entitlement process by exempting 100% affordable housing projects from lengthy processes that add…

This partisan bickering, like most bickering, ignores the underlying cause of San Francisco’s ridiculously expensive housing — the low property taxes under Prop 13. Cutting property taxes attracts land speculators who fervently compete to see who can bid up the monopoly board. Everyone wants to buy Baltic and Mediterranean and turn them into…

Thank you, Sara Shortt, for clarifying the misconceptions around Prop F. The loss of low & middle-income units in SF has also resulted in the loss of art & social justice organizations, activist groups and media resources which might offer an alternative perspective to the cacophony of profit-driven agendas in SF at the moment. This city is in dire…