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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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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.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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The price of growth
Development is booming in the eastern neighborhoods, but the money isn't there to cover the infrastructure needed to serve itjoe@sfbg.comSan Francisco is booming, but will its infrastructure be able to...
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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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Is Airbnb's day of reckoning in SF on its way?
Airbnb facilitates short-term stays all over San Francisco, most of which violate local laws.The San Francisco City Attorney’s Office is finally preparing to take action against the illegal short-term...
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Burning down the housing in San Francisco
Fire crews from around the city worked to contain the fire along Fourth Street in China Basin.Ross BarringerYesterday’s massive fire that destroyed a 172-unit market-rate housing complex that was near...
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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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