Peskin’s bill is San Francisco’s attempt to stop just about everything
San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin doesn’t deserve accusations of NIMBYism. His proposed legislation isn’t Not In My Back Yard, it’s...
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Randy Shaw - BeyondChron
- Feb 5, 2019
- 4 min
SF’S MOMENT OF TRUTH ON HOUSING
Two Key Votes on Promoting Affordability All San Francisco politicians claim to support building more housing. But some also work against...
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SF Examiner - Joshua Sabatini
- Feb 5, 2019
- 4 min
Tax on vacant housing, storefronts proposed for November ballot
Plans are in the works to place a vacancy tax on the November ballot for both residential and commercial properties as part of a citywide...
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David Costello - Contributing Writer - SF
- Feb 3, 2019
- 2 min
SF Board of Supervisors Pending 'Conditional Use' Renovation Legislation: Making it impossib
No one seems to question how much automobiles have changed over the past 80 years. Engines, sizes of cars as well as their appearances...
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Randy Shaw - SF Chronicle
- Jan 11, 2019
- 4 min
San Francisco must end its self-inflicted housing woes
The building at 1028 Market St. is in the heart of San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood. Once home to the temporary public marketplace...
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J.K. Dineen - SF Chronicle
- Jan 2, 2019
- 4 min
SF’s boom in home building to slow in 2019
Development of market-rate housing in San Francisco will slow to a trickle in 2019, because a combination of higher construction costs,...
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J.K. Dineen - SF Chronicle
- Dec 18, 2018
- 4 min
City-ordered rebuild of landmark house stirs debate: Appropriate or overreach?
The San Francisco Planning Commission’s recent ruling that a property owner must rebuild a 1936 house that was illegally demolished has...
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Patrick Wolf - SF Examiner
- Dec 17, 2018
- 4 min
San Francisco cannot solve the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis on its own
In the Follow the Money column published April 29, I argued that over the next 20 years the greater Bay Area must increase its existing...
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SF Examiner - Joshua Sabatini
- Dec 15, 2018
- 3 min
SF to release Transbay housing developer from grocery store commitment
A developer is asking The City for permission to drop plans to bring a grocery store into the Transbay neighborhood as part of a nearly...
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By Rachel Swan - SF Examiner
- Dec 13, 2018
- 3 min
Bay Area leaders propose aggressive housing fix, and new agency to get it done
A panel of mayors, developers and transit officials has an aggressive plan to stanch the Bay Area’s housing crisis by combining a...
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By Rachel Swan - SF Examiner
- Dec 13, 2018
- 3 min
Bay Area leaders propose aggressive housing fix, and new agency to get it done
A panel of mayors, developers and transit officials has an aggressive plan to stanch the Bay Area’s housing crisis by combining a...
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J.K. Dineen - SF Chronicle
- Dec 10, 2018
- 3 min
SF supervisor’s bill takes aim at illegal home demolitions
A San Francisco lawmaker is pushing back against what he says is the growing trend of real estate speculators illegally knocking down...
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RESIDENTIAL BUILDERS ASSOCIATION
- Dec 6, 2018
- 2 min
City passes plan for new SoMa homes
Central SoMa Plan was eight years in the making Photo courtesy of SF Planning On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a...
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Adam Brinklow for SF Curbed
- Dec 6, 2018
- 2 min
San Francisco rents close 2018 by rising—again
Winter is here, both for the city and for San Francisco’s always chilling rent prices, which show no signs of seasonal generosity...
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Blanca Torres
- Dec 5, 2018
- 3 min
San Francisco's new condo inventory plunges as projects sell out
San Francisco’s supply of new condos is quickly dwindling as buyers snap up homes on the market. The city is down to less than 500 new...
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SF Examiner - By Joshua Sabatini
- Dec 4, 2018
- 3 min
Minimum parking requirements on their way out in SF
San Francisco voted Tuesday to become the first major city in the country to eliminate minimum parking requirements for all kinds of...
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SF Examiner - By Joshua Sabatini
- Nov 26, 2018
- 2 min
SF to do away with minimum parking requirements for developments
San Francisco is poised to become the first big U.S. city to no longer require developers to include at least some parking in their...
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By Adhi Nagraj, San Francisco Director
- Nov 12, 2018
- 6 min
How Has San Francisco Run Out of Money for Affordable Housing?
Eddy & Taylor Family Apartments, under construction in the Tenderloin neighborhood, is a 100 percent low-income residential building...
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Laura Waxmann - AfterdarkSF.com
- Nov 9, 2018
- 3 min
Long-delayed housing plan on Divisadero Street approved
A much-delayed plan to build new housing at 650 Divisadero St. finally has the green light from a city commission. The San Francisco...
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San Francisco Chronicle - Dominic Fracassa and
- Nov 8, 2018
- 5 min
SF puts brakes on Prop. C homeless measure; legal challenge anticipated
San Francisco voters passed Proposition C by a wide margin Tuesday night, turning on a fountain of tax money to pay for expanded...
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