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Mirkarimi Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Code Enforcement Outreach Program 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
Sellouts in the Bayview adversely impact innocent constituents mostly in Public Housing 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
Mayor Gavin Newsom King of B L I N G 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
Breaking Story- Oakland Public Housing Tenants Exonerated Former Oakland Housing Authority Employee Declares Tenants Facing Eviction At Lockwood Gardens Are Innocent!...
Posted: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 1:32pm PDT
Broad Community Support Shown for Inclusionary Housing Changes 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
Trinity Plaza Apartments Moving Forward 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
Haight Supermarket Fight Raises Bay Area-wide Issues 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
Health Care Ordinance to Undergo Further Scrutiny 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
Berkeley Shows San Francisco How to Address Inclusionary Housing 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
Mayor Allows Tenant "Common Space" Legislation to Become Law 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
SCRP Endorses Mission St Apt. Project Local citizen planning group approves new housing proposal...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 11:27pm PDT
The Front Line -- Methamphetamine Use Rises Among Bay Area Asians 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
Serial Evictor Targets District 5 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
SENIORS AND DISABLED TAKE ON THE BANKS: Round One: Bank of America (video/quicktime 35.2MB) The Bank of America is asked to sign a pledge agreeing not to provide mortgages for buildings where senior and disabled tenants have been evicted. In two parts:
*Four-minute QT movie. 35MB.
*Six-minute QT movie. 44MB. (Part 2 is down below.)...
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 4:25pm PDT
Sexual Responsibility Through Lawsuits? George Harrison once called it the “sue me, sue you blues.”
He wrote the song after a lawsuit was brought against him for allegedly ripping off the melody of “He’s So Fine” for his early 70s hit, “My Sweet Lord.”...
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 8:40am PDT
Hunters Point: The removal picks up speed SF Redevelopment Agency watching and waiting while all poor people of color are swept off ‘the Hill’...
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:48am PDT
Disability Perspective: Disabled Excluded from 4th of July Celebration MTA, through both MUNI and DPT, made--and then failed to communicate--traffic control decisions that systematically excluded people with disabilities from taking public transit to the Aquatic Park site for the 4th of July celebrations. This also resulted in a substantial exclusion of people with disabilities from actually getting down to Aquatic Park....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:21am PDT
Save Berkeley's Public Housing & Section 8 Program Budget Cuts Have Placed Berkeley's Housing Authority At Risk! More Than 1,800 Public Housing & Section 8 Families At Risk Of Homelessness!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 12:53pm PDT
Newsom-Ammiano Health Care Proposals Merged The Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee voted unanimously yesterday to merge two proposals aimed at provided universal health care to San Franciscans. Mayor Gavin Newsom's proposal, which he co-wrote with a panel of experts and some Supervisors, contained the framework for the plan, but according to testimony from both the Budget Analyst and Public Health Director Mitch Katz, it lacked sufficient funding to work. Supervisor Tom Ammiano's proposal solves that problem by requiring...
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 6:45am PDT
URGENT: BULLDOZERS ARRIVE AT SOUTH CENTRAL FARM!! Activists practicing civil disobedience inside the nations largest urban farm are being violently dragged out and arrested! One minor was thrown violently onto the concrete before being aprehended. More and more police continue to arrive! Stop this injustice!...
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 3:24pm PDT
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