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Shaw's "housing civil war" is really about influence peddling
Randy Shaw advocated publicly and privately for the Twitter tax break he crafted in 2011 with Jane Kim and Ed Lee.Luke ThomasI’m always wary of the BeyondChron stories by Tenderloin power broker Randy...
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Supervisors consider affordable housing half-step
While the Board of Supervisors today considers placing a measure on the fall ballot that would slow market rate housing projects when affordable housing development drops below 30 percent of total...
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City agencies defend their slow response to Airbnb's illegal rentals
Tourists can choose from nearly 5,000 San Francisco homes on Airbnb.More information has been coming out about how Airbnb is used to convert San Francisco apartments into tourist rentals — including an...
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SF to consider joining Richmond in fighting banks over underwater mortgages
Activists rallied in favor of the city using eminent domain to help those with underwater mortgages last September.Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezPlans to ease San Francisco’s often overlooked home...
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Angry building owners threaten lawsuit over anti-speculation tax
Supporters of the measure are playing up its origins.Opponents of the anti-speculator tax that will appear on the November ballot blasted the proposal in a City Hall hearing yesterday [Thu/10] —...
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SF bankers now exporting tenant-displacing TIC loans
Banker and mayoral appointee Stephen Adams is now exporting fractional TIC home loans to communities outside San Francisco.You Tube/AREAA-SFFractional mortgage loans used to convert apartments into...
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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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San Francisco rent explosion: Median rent for two-bedroom apartment tops $4K
The Rent is Too Damn High, Part 2 Image courtesy of PriceEconomics.comHold onto your butts, a new study on San Francisco's rental market (yes another one) reveals the city's newest most expensive...
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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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Moderate politicians push "affordable housing" definition up to higher income...
Do three-quarters of city residents really need housing subsidies, or just those most in need, at-risk, and diverse?San Francisco, its General Plan Housing Element, and various city codes have always...
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Investigation shows outsider ownership of SF's luxury condos
Map showing where the owners of Infinity Tower live.48hillsonline.orgFormer Bay Guardian editor and publisher Tim Redmond has a great new investigation on his 48Hills site showing how many new luxury...
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Compromise measures
Housing and business tax propositions don't solve the city's problems, but both sides say they're the best we can expectA pair of fall ballot measures would spur affordable housing development in San...
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SF approves Twitter-sized apartments for tech workers
San Francisco is giving Twitter tax rebates to help grow a business that reduces our communications to 140 characters or less, and now the city's Board of Supervisors has approved the creation of...
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San Francisco, Third World country
The model is pretty well established, and has proven exceptionally lucrative for big US corporations like Bechtel and big US banks -- and has been an utter disaster for dozens of developing countries:...
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San Francisco rent explosion: Median rent for two-bedroom apartment tops $4K
The Rent is Too Damn High, Part 2 Image courtesy of PriceEconomics.comHold onto your butts, a new study on San Francisco's rental market (yes another one) reveals the city's newest most expensive...
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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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Moderate politicians push "affordable housing" definition up to higher income...
Do three-quarters of city residents really need housing subsidies, or just those most in need, at-risk, and diverse?San Francisco, its General Plan Housing Element, and various city codes have always...
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Investigation shows outsider ownership of SF's luxury condos
Map showing where the owners of Infinity Tower live.48hillsonline.orgFormer Bay Guardian editor and publisher Tim Redmond has a great new investigation on his 48Hills site showing how many new luxury...
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