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Housing advocates and tenants will kick off their campaign to reform what many consider to be the worst landlord in San Francisco this weekend. Their target: Skyline Realty, also known as CitiApartments, which has become known both for housing code violations and intimidating long-time tenants into vacating their homes. Picketers will be lining up around Skyline’s Church Street office at noon this Saturday, asking that the company brass sign an agreement to stop their abusive practices. In ad...

The staggering increase in gasoline prices is taking an enormous toll on working families in the US, whose paychecks are already being eaten up by a host of other rising costs, from health care, to education, to housing and food. In the last two weeks alone, prices at the gas pump have risen nearly 25 cents—to an average of $2.91 per gallon—with prices exceeding $3.10 in California, New York and other states....

Come check out this cartoon about gentrification and raise money for an incredible tenants and immigrant rights organization. This Tuesday 8pm at El Rio!...

New Orleans held its first election after the Hurricane Katrina disaster on Saturday. Mayor Ray Nagin and Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu won the two top spots and will face each other in a run-off in May. Tens of thousands of displaced residents were no allowed to vote. We speak with Ted Shaw of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund....

Mercy Housing has been sued by former tenants for the abuse of the elderly and disabled. I have tried for over 4 years to get them to stop Michael Williams, Lorna Walsh, and Igor from abusing us and they refuse to look at or listen to the proof I have. Every building in SF that Mercy operates has had at least one complaint against them to the Human Rights Commission and they still will not do anything about it nor will the HRC! I was told by Ed Ilumin that Mercy had too much Political clou...

Tell the Supervisors to slow down The Supervisors’ Land Use Committee is debating the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan today, Wednesday, April 19, at 1 p.m., in City Hall Room 263. The Finance Committee will take it up in a week, on Wednesday, April 26, 1 p.m., in the Board Chamber, City Hall Room 250. Be there. Tell the Supervisors to slow down. Is sacrificing a neighborhood of 34,000 people the way they want to be remembered? Email the Board of Supervisors at Board_of_Supervisors...

Since the mid-1980s, there has been little progress in poverty reduction in the MENA region although human development indicators have continued to improve. Accelerating poverty reduction and sustaining human development improvement are important challenges for the region in the future says a World Bank report "Sustaining Gains in Poverty Reduction and Human Development in MENA "released Thursday....

New York's drug laws ensure that the privileged and connected receive leniency for the same offenses that send thousands of blacks and Latinos to prison....

The California Cental Valley Journey for Justice will arrive in Sacramento on Thursday, April 20! Don't miss this event!...

A contentious proposal that would put more than half of the Bayview under the authority of the Redevelopment Agency will receive its first public hearing at the Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee today. Previous hearings on the proposal at both the Planning Commission and Redevelopment Agency turned into knock-down, drag-out battles between supporters and opponents, with claims that the proposal would bring jobs and housing to the community clashing with fears it...