Articles Tagged “San Francisco”
-
Senator Leno, Mayor Lee Announce Legislation to Arrest Speculative Evictions in San Francisco
Senator Mark Leno today joined San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, other elected officials, tenant advocates, labor groups and business leaders to introduce legislation closing a loophole in the Ellis Act that allows speculators to buy rent-controlled buildings in San Francisco and immediately begin the process of evicting long-term renters.
-
Spike in San Francisco Pedestrian Fatalities Sparks City Response
A special joint meeting of the Board of Supervisors and the Police Commission was held Thursday at City Hall to address an alarming spike in pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in San Francisco.
-
Environmental Groups Laud City Action to Resume Work on CleanPower SF Program
Local environmental and community organizations today lauded the San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission (SF LAFCo) decision last Friday to complete the unfinished clean energy build-out plan for the city’s CleanPowerSF program.
-
Education and Gentrification: Let’s Stop Ignoring the Correlation in San Francisco
Rapid gentrification has been affecting the lives of all of San Francisco’s residents, so why has the relationship between the city’s changing population and public education been largely ignored?
-
San Francisco Residents Protest Corporate Tax Breaks Following Twitter IPO
Impacted by sky-rocketing rents and evictions, San Francisco residents demonstrated Thursday outside Twitter headquarters following the social media company’s highly anticipated first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
-
This is currently a hot topic
This is Not Miami – The Fight over San Francisco’s Historic Waterfront
There is a battle being waged for the soul of San Francisco between developers, who would like to turn our city into a playground for the wealthy in return for large profits, versus people who live and work here and wish to preserve the character that makes our city a welcomed change from the urban status quo.
-
This is currently a hot topic
Another Gangland Shootout in the Tenderloin: One Dead, One Wounded
Another death in the Tenderloin. I heard over a dozen shots between what sounded like two different caliber guns. Fear struck hard. It sounding like a gunfight. A real one. Curious but frightened, I came downstairs to find a dead body on the sidewalk outside my apartment building.
The Hunger Site
Recent Comments