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Residents vs. Touristsnew
How many rent-controlled apartments is Airbnb taking off SF's housing market?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
02-05-2014 |
Housing & Development
The Presidio Strikes Backnew
As George Lucas' tech-focused art museum duels with history and nature museums for a key spot on Crissy Field, the Presidio Trust considers going big and allowing all three.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez |
11-20-2013 |
Housing & Development
Tags: San Francisco, National Parks
Friends in the Shadowsnew
How developers, corporations, and city contractors buy influence in San Francisco City Hall.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Rebecca Bowe |
10-09-2013 |
Housing & Development
Planning for Displacementnew
Regional planners want to put 280,000 more people into San Francisco — and they admit that many current residents will have to leave.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tim Redmond |
06-04-2013 |
Housing & Development
Homeowner Defense Groups to Target Wells Fargo Shareholdersnew
While deep-pocketed lobbyists have been making it hard to pass laws that would offer at-risk homeowners more protections, homeowner defender groups have decided to target, and now protest against, the group they believe stand directly in the way of equitable reforms: the banks.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
05-04-2011 |
Housing & Development
How Artsy Renegades Reignited a Movement to Reclaim the Urban Environmentnew
Increasingly, the tactics and spirit of outlaw urbanists, designers, and artists are being adopted inside San Francisco City Hall, and the result is starting to look like a real urban design revolution -- one that harks back to a movement that was interrupted back in the 1970s.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Molly Freedenberg and Steven T. Jones |
11-18-2009 |
Housing & Development
Foreclosure Wave Speeds San Francisco's Black Exodusnew
San Francisco political leaders have focused on a plan to subsidize construction of thousands of new condos in the southeast section of the city — the heart of the San Francisco's remaining African American community.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
05-20-2009 |
Housing & Development
Demolition Stirs Fresh Controversy Between Developers and Preservationistsnew
The demolition of the Little House, a 148-year-old Russian Hill cottage in San Francisco, struck a nerve and raised a slew of questions — many of which continue to go unanswered.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Rebecca Bowe |
04-01-2009 |
Housing & Development
New Stimulus Plan Falls Short on Housing Moneynew
Homelessness is on the rise across urban America. And in nearly every big city, public housing projects are crumbling, suffering from years of federal neglect. But you wouldn't know that to look at the latest stimulus package coming out of Washington, DC.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Rebecca Bowe |
01-21-2009 |
Housing & Development
House Built on High Hopes Goes Down in Flamesnew
A cauldron of squatters and property owners, stirred by green dreams and the bursting housing bubble, set an unusual Oakland house ablaze.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Shane Bauer |
05-28-2008 |
Housing & Development
The Shelter Shufflenew
Inside San Francisco's confounding system of housing the homeless.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
02-13-2008 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Homes for Whom?new
In San Francisco, affordable housing is shaping up to be the big political issue of 2008.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
12-19-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Housing: The Urbanist Approachnew
Not one more inch of farmland in California would need to be developed if we were just willing to put growth inside existing cities.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Gabriel Metcalf |
11-28-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
A Question of Intentnew
As lawsuits and regulators probe Lennar Corp.'s negligent approach to development, a new campaign seeks to give the embattled corporation even more control over San Francisco.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
11-28-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Rent Control Under Attack in San Francisconew
Eminent domain reform measure on June ballot could kill the city's rent-control and affordable-housing laws.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones and Sarah Phelan |
11-07-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
