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textJuly 25, Save Berkeley Housing Authority Event! by Lynda Carson
Save Berkeley Housing Authority!...
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 3:00pm PDT
textLive From the Front -- When Toothache Trumps Reason by New American Media (reposted)
young, homeless musician enters the world of health care and paperwork in an attempt to solve a painful dilemma. David Simms is a writer for Roaddawgz, a multimedia drop-in space for young homeless, traveling writers and artists and a PNS project. Work created by homeless youth is published weekly on www.roaddawgz.org and periodically in zines, magazines and other publications. Contact roaddawgz@pacificnews.org....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 9:02pm PDT
textAnti-Immigrant Protest this weekend by danielsan
Some out-of-town "anti-alien" group is trying to organize a rally this weekend in Santa Cruz. Check the website, check out the rhetoric. Come out to meet & greet, Saturday at noon at the town clock....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 8:22am PDT
textTransit service reduction in marin county and social justice by Salamander
Transit service reduction in marin county and social justice...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 8:23pm PDT
textLand Use Committee Settles on Inclusionary Housing Amendments by Beyond Chron (reposted)
At Wednesday’s Land Use and Economic Development meeting, everything seemed to be going Supervisor Chris Daly’s way. Supervisor Daly and co-sponsor Sophie Maxwell have waited seven long months for their efforts to come to fruition. Through the Inclusionary Affordable Housing Program, they have fought to bring a lagging San Francisco up to speed with the other cities and counties of Northern California. Currently, when any developer builds a set of apartment buildings, 12% of the units of the ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 8:31am PDT
textBayview Community Input Missing from 49ers Stadium, Olympics Plans by Beyond Chron (reposted)
Backers of the recently approved Bayview-Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan insisted that it merely fulfilled a decade-long community planning process. The Plan would allegedly ensure that community input, not outside forces, would shape the neighborhood’s future. But within weeks of the Plan’s approval, Mayor Newsom announced plans to build thousands of apartments in Bayview to house athletes attending the 2016 Olympics, the 49ers declared an intention to build a new stadium and to join with t...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 8:30am PDT
textHealth Security Ordinance Passed Unanimously by Beyond Chron (reposted)
“They said it couldn’t be done,” commented Board President Aaron Peskin in regard to San Francisco’s push for universal health care. But at last, after seventeen separate hearings scrutinizing and re-scrutinizing every stipulate of Tom Ammiano’s Health Security Ordinance, the measure was passed unanimously at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Even before the final vote, one could sense Ammiano’s confidence in the headway the legislation had made as he spoke before the board....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 7:07am PDT
textMirkarimi Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Code Enforcement Outreach Program by Beyond Chron (reposted)
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi will host an art opening this Friday that will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Code Enforcement Outreach Program (CEOP). The opening will feature the photography of CEOP coordinator James Sanbonmatsu, whose photographs document the startlingly unsafe conditions in some of San Francisco’s rental units – conditions that CEOP has proved remarkably successful at improving. The event will be from 5-8 pm at Room 282 of City Hall....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 7:06am PDT
textSellouts in the Bayview adversely impact innocent constituents mostly in Public Housing by Francisco Da Costa
Hundreds of homes are boarded up and constituents in Public Housing at Hunters Point told to move to other locations. Often it is like jumping from the frying pan to the fire. The City and County of San Francisco does not care about poor folks and those that need help. At the same time there are plans drawn to tear down Public Housing and build brand new housing for those that do not live there now. More housing for Whip Cream and those that can afford Market Price housing. Of course that wo...
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 6:21pm PDT
textMayor Gavin Newsom King of B L I N G by Francisco Da Costa
Mayor Gavin Newsom is also the King of B L I N G. His vision to bring the Summer Olympics in 2016, encourage San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to steal thousands of acres using Blight, Emminent Domain, High Density, and using the tool Tax Increment to the detriment of thousands of Bayview Hunters Point and Visitation Valley constituents. We have yet to see a sound Environmental Impact Report - we have yet to see a sound Socio-Economic Report that addresses the critical factors and adversel...
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 7:52am PDT
textBreaking Story- Oakland Public Housing Tenants Exonerated by Lynda Carson
Former Oakland Housing Authority Employee Declares Tenants Facing Eviction At Lockwood Gardens Are Innocent!...
Posted: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 1:32pm PDT
textBroad Community Support Shown for Inclusionary Housing Changes by Beyond Chron (reposted)
Wednesday afternoon the Land Use and Economic Development Committee listened to the findings from official studies conducted by both the San Francisco Planning Department and the Office of the Controller on proposed amendments to the Inclusionary Housing Program in San Francisco. The legislation would increase the percentage of affordable housing required for all residential developments of 10 units or more. In addition, it would adjust the way that median income is calculated. And finally, o...
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 6:40am PDT
textTrinity Plaza Apartments Moving Forward by Casey Mills, Beyond Chron (reposted)
A proposal to build approximately 1,900 units of rental housing on the corner of 8th and Market will face its final hurdles in the coming weeks, as developers of Trinity Plaza Apartments seek final project approval at the Planning Commission on August 3. The project then heads to the Board of Supervisors. Seen as a key to the revitalization of the Mid-Market neighborhood, Trinity Plaza has moved forward while progress on other major developments in San Francisco has slowed. All eyes will like...
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 6:40am PDT
textHaight Supermarket Fight Raises Bay Area-wide Issues by Beyond Chron (reposted)
The closing of the full-service, unionized Cala Foods in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district has prompted a neighborhood battle over the future use of the site. Longtime neighborhood builder John Brennan purchased the property, and plans to construct between 50 and 60 condominiums above a new full-service supermarket. Opponents of the project believe the proposed 176 underground parking spaces will create a traffic nightmare, and many prefer affordable housing to condos (though Brennan re...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 6:29am PDT
textHealth Care Ordinance to Undergo Further Scrutiny by Beyond Chron (reposted)
While this week’s meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee did provide one important answer, it raised several more questions. For weeks, residents, politicians, and supervisors alike have wondered with whom Mayor Gavin Newsom would side on the issue of health care. Once again, Newsom has found himself torn between the interests of the labor and business community. Tuesday morning, advocates from both sides voiced the competing interests, demands, and threats the mayor has entertained as o...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 6:28am PDT
textBerkeley Shows San Francisco How to Address Inclusionary Housing by Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron (reposted)
On Wednesday July 12, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee will consider long delayed reforms to the city’s inclusionary housing ordinance. The most recent hearing on May 10 was continued pending the completion of a Planning Department/Mayor’s Office of Housing study of the current law, a report whose production has delayed the passage of a stronger affordable housing law for several months. Two weeks ago, the city of Berkeley revised its inclusionary law---long more stri...
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 7:04am PDT
textMayor Allows Tenant "Common Space" Legislation to Become Law by Casey Mills, Beyond Chron (reposted)
Tenants scored a victory last Friday night when Mayor Gavin Newsom allowed legislation preventing landlords from severing services from a rental unit to become law. The proposal, sponsored by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, did not receive the necessary eight votes at the Board of Supervisors to override a mayoral veto, but Newsom decided to allow the measure to take effect. As a result, landlords can no longer remove parking spaces, laundry facilities, and a variety of other amenities from tenant...
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 7:03am PDT
textSCRP Endorses Mission St Apt. Project by Wolfgang Rosenberg
Local citizen planning group approves new housing proposal...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 11:27pm PDT
textThe Front Line -- Methamphetamine Use Rises Among Bay Area Asians by New American Media (reposted)
As experts and media around the country debate the impact of methamphetamine, counselors and law enforcement officials working on San Francisco frontlines agree that it's becoming the drug of choice among Bay Area Asians. Mike Konishita, director of intake for Asian American Recovery Services Inc. sees the stigma attached to drug use among Asians as a major reason for why the spike in meth is largely off the public radar....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 10:16pm PDT
textSerial Evictor Targets District 5 by Casey Mills, Beyond Chron (reposted)
As a building full of families, seniors, and long-time tenants continue to fight for their homes at 1530 McAllister Street, Beyond Chron has discovered that the speculators working to displace these residents are also responsible for a series of evictions throughout District 5. San Francisco realtor Elba Borgen is leading the group responsible for purging five buildings of tenants in recent years, four of which are in District 5. Assisted in these evictions by real estate agents Mike Gallin a...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 8:16am PDT
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