San Francisco’s break-up with Wall Street could happen in just a few years.
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San Francisco is one of several cities to explore taking taxpayer funds out of Wall Street and into a public bank.
In 2020 voters could decide whether or not to hand the basic democratic right back to the nearly 50,000 Californians currently on parole.
Supervisors voted Tuesday to weed out words like “felon,” “criminal,” and “addict” from official documents, instead choosing language that puts people first and their actions second.
Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer wants excess tax revenues for the city to produce, acquire, and permanently preserve affordable housing.
Housing nonprofits will stand a better chance of permanently protecting rent-controlled buildings from the speculative market.
“Instead of NIMBY or YIMBY, let’s all be IHMBY — inclusionary housing in my backyard,” Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer said.
Competition is tough for nonprofits seeking to buy market-rate buildings to preserve affordable housing.
In the span of three hours on Tuesday night, one person was killed and another two were injured in separate incidents.
The South of Market Community Action Network takes up wide-ranging issues in a neighborhood at the epicenter of displacement.