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Newsom’s Housing Numbers Mean Little In August 2005, Mayor Newsom held a press conference with the President of the Chamber of Commerce and CEO of the SF Association of Realtors to tout his Home 15/5 “five point plan” to stimulate housing production...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 5:40pm PST
Community Voices Concern over Bayview-Hunters Point Redevelopment Before a packed house of predomimantly black residents of the Bayview-Hunters Point, the Planning and Revelopment Commissions, in a special meeting last night, voted to certify the Final Environmental Impact Report for "Redeveloping and Rezoning" the 1,361 acres of land that compromises that district, it's neighborhoods and community. While it is doubtful any minds were changed, many voices were heard....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 5:38pm PST
The taking of Bayview Hunters Point Malcolm X said revolution is the struggle for “land, the basis of independence. … Land is the basis of freedom, justice and equality.”...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 7:40am PST
High Uninsured Rate for Mission District Latinos Many Latinos in San Francisco’s Mission District live with the looming threat of coming down with the flu, contracting a disease, or breaking a limb, and having no way to pay for health care....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 10:26pm PST
Loan Shark of the Year! 
Money Mart in Fresno was given the “Loan Shark of the Year” award....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 2:32pm PST
Keep San Francisco Friendly for Families 
On March 1st low and moderate income parents and young people struggling to stay in San Francisco announced a $10 million plan to keep thousands of families in the city....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 12:39pm PST
Maxwell Wins Fight Over Liquor Stores Supervisor Sophie Maxwell triumphed yesterday in her effort to increase city enforcement over problem liquor stores. Faced with a potentially killing amendment from Supervisor Ma, Maxwell beseeched her colleagues to stand firm against rogue liquor stores wreaking havoc on low-income communities. Maxwell argued that the amendment, which would exempt city enforcement of problems caused by liquor stores that occur outside the premises, would undermine the legislation’s purpose and send a terribl...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:36am PST
Disability Perspective: Bart and MUNI This Tuesday, 28 February, the MTA board of directors likely will again go through the motions of approving a biased contract with BART, while no one at City Hall pays attention. Why? Maybe because it's only the disabled who are complaining....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 6:56am PST
ACORN Demands Money Mart End Predatory Practices This Thursday, March 2nd at 6pm at 7th and Market, ACORN will present Money Mart with a “Loan Shark of the Year” Award for “gouging customers through predatory payday lending, criminal check-cashing fees, and rip-off refund loans.”...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 5:58pm PST
Gun Trauma -- Getting Shot Has Changed My Life In some neighborhoods getting shot is more common than getting into a fights. Young Napz, 14, is a writer for YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia a project of New America Media....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 5:15pm PST
Community Meeting to Decide Future of Transportation in Tenderloin The San Francisco Transportation Authority, as part of a community-based transportation plan being created for the Tenderloin and Little Saigon neighborhoods, will be holding a public meeting February 28 to discuss the future of transportation for the area. The meeting is open to the public, and community input will help decide what future projects will be undertaken to improve Muni, pedestrian safety, traffic, parking, bicycling, streetscapes, and a variety of other transportation-related is...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 7:58am PST
Ten Minutes then Jail 
Santa Cruz considers making it illegal to remain
in parking lots or garages for longer than 10 minutes
"Your city already has too many laws that target homeless people."
--- Michael Stoops, acting Ex. Dir. of the National Coalition for the Homeless...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 12:40am PST
San Francisco to Regulate Check-Cashing Businesses Plans are underway to regulate check-cashing and payday lending businesses in San Francisco....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 5:07pm PST
Court of Appeal Upholds San Francisco’s Expanded Ellis Relocation Benefits The State Court of Appeals ruled unanimously yesterday that San Francisco can require landlords to pay Ellis relocation benefits to all tenants, not just those with low incomes. The battle over such benefits began when a group of landlords represented by attorney Andrew Zacks hoped to strike down legislation passed last year requiring greater payments to tenants evicted with the Ellis Act. While local Superior Court Judge James Warren granted Zack’s plea the first go-around, yesterday the Cou...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 6:59am PST
Pushed To The Brink Of Homelessness The Disabled And Chronically Ill Get No Mercy From HUD's Misguided Housing Policies!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 8:49pm PST
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency stopped in the tracks The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) with Marcia Rosen as its evil leader were stopped in their tracks even as they wanted the SFRA Commissioners to agree to a resolution that all was NOT fine with a very faulty Final Environmental Impact Report that has not been discussed by the affected community in the Bayview. Gone are the days when the Western Addition was ruined by Racist SFRA. We will not permit the SFRA to come into our community and take over large tracts of land without mea...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 6:59am PST
Two Visions for Homicide Prevention Responding to the highest yearly total of homicides in a decade, four San Francisco Supervisors recently announced plans to create a homicide prevention fund aimed at reducing violence throughout the city. Not long after, Mayor Gavin Newsom responded with his own proposal, which must wind its way through the Board in the upcoming months. A comparison between the two efforts at solving one of the city’s most troubling and complicated problems reveals two different approaches to addressing the ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 9:31am PST
Anti-Tenant SF Democrat Assemblyman Leland Yee This excellent article by Paul Hogarth from beyondchron.org is a must read for all tenants and for all who need to learn that to vote Democrat or Republican is to vote for landlords and against tenants and rent control. Leland Yee, former member of the Board of Supervisors, now an Assemblyperson, is a leading anti-tenant voter in the Assembly, coming from "progressive" San Francisco. Yee is now running for state senate. Is there a Peace & Freedom or Green Party candidate, by defi...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 5:44am PST
Just Us Voicing Our Concerns to Santa Cruz's Public Safety Committee 
On February 13th, Just Us and the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra held a press conference and rally to call attention to Santa Cruz Police Department spying and their investigation clearing themselves of any wrongdoing. Police Auditor Bob Aaronson's rejection of the results of the SCPD’s investigation of its own behavior set the tone for the meeting of the Public Safety Committee of the Santa Cruz City Council. The Committee stated that they were not going to make any decisions until they had a ch...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 9:54pm PST
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