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San Francisco’s taxi paratransit program has long been a blessing for our disabled citizens. Since 1979—more than a decade before the federal ADA law of 1991—our city government has provided subsidized transportation for frail seniors, wheelchair users, dialysis patients and others with serious disabilities. Its innovative use of taxicabs for paratransit has been emulated nationwide....

The Board of Supervisors passed 8-2 a resolution yesterday to “endorse efforts” by the City, the Redevelopment Agency and the Lennar Corporation to transform parts of Hunters Point into a mixed use development – with a new 49ers Stadium, open spaces and various “tangible economic benefits” to the community’s low-income residents. Supervisors Chris Daly and Ed Jew were the only dissenting votes. Responding to an outcry from tenants at the Alice Griffith Housing Project (who fear losing their h...

Rumors abound about the fate of San Francisco’s public housing developments. In a recent rant on Indybay.org, activist Francisco Da Costa claims that the City’s plan is to “slowly board up all of Public Housing at Potrero Hill, bring in the SF Redevelopment Agency and build high rise buildings for the filthy rich.” As reported in Beyond Chron on February 12th, angry residents of the Alice Griffith housing development marched on the Mayor’s “town hall” meeting protesting the City’s plans to de...

As he continues to defy the voter-approved “Question Time” at the Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom held a second Town Hall on February 10th at the Whitney Young Child Development Center in Bayview. In stark contrast to his first meeting in the Richmond, the audience did not let the Mayor run a scripted, staged event where he is in complete control. The largely low-income African-American residents of Bayview were upset about the past, frustrated about the present, and anxious about th...

A bizarre case of alleged "Fraud and Corruption" ends in Oakland, when the Oakland Housing Authority lost an appeal to evict 35 families accused of being squatters, from their public housing units at Lockwood Gardens!...

Three tornadoes lashed through central Florida in the early morning hours on February 2, killing 20 people. Separate twisters touched down between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. local time, the first in the rural community of Lady Lake, killing six people, and a few minutes later a second one swept through the small town of Paisley, claiming another 13 lives. Most of the victims were asleep and unaware of any impending danger. It is estimated that over 1,500 homes were destroyed or heavily damaged and th...

Potrero Hill Public Housing is suffering because of lack of funds and personnel cuts to the SF Housing Authority. Sophie Maxwell the District 10 Supervisor and her cronies like the Potrero Boosters that you see at most of the Land Use Meetings - will not lift a finger to help those that need help most at the Potrero Hill Public Housing. While Sophie Maxwell gives large breaks and bends backwards to help the Matag Mogul on Potrero Hill - innocent, poor folks suffer each and every day....

Gentrification, Relocation, Disenfranchisement....

KRUGMAN: Senator John Edwards has put forward a smart, serious health care proposal. THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE...

The Homelessness Marathon comes to Fresno...