Subject: Price Controls and Subsidies

• The Big One Could Destroy SF Rent Control

  February 23, 2008

• Who Will Be the Obama Girl for the No on 98 Campaign?

  March 4, 2008

• SF Weekly Exclusive -- It's Official: San Francisco Repeats as Soweto USA

  By Matt SmithFor the third year running San Francisco has managed its public housing as the equivalent of a Third World slum. New information from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development confirms that San Francisco's Housing Authority -- which oversees 6,400 apartments, housing 35,000 residents -- failed a 2006 inspection and was officially labeled a "troubled agency," a status it has suffered since 2004. While the latest publicly confirmed federal inspection results are f

  December 23, 2008

• Business Conductor

  The city needs to stop subsidizing the S.F. Symphony and other snobby arts organizations that cater to the rich.

  November 19, 2008

• SF Weekly Letters

  June 4, 2008

• Eminently Logical

  Don't be too concerned with the originators of Proposition 98. instead, look at what they might deliver.

  May 28, 2008

• Market: Mark It

  April 30, 2008

• Union, Heal Thyself

  Will a lobbyist for a local healthcare union extend a bill proven bad for patients' health?

  April 30, 2008

• Profits for Developers Initiative

  Take a closer look at this truly awful measure funded by Don Fisher before signing on

  July 11, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  April 11, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  June 7, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  February 1, 2006

• Unintended Evictions

  An attempted solution to rental evictions may actually force more people out of rent-controlled apartments in an already tight San Francisco housing market

  January 18, 2006

• S.F. Hosing Authority

  City government promised Katrina victims a haven, then it gave some of them the shaft

  October 19, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  December 1, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  Defending the Public Defender; Landlords vs. Tenants

  February 27, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  February 20, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  Lovable Luke; Who Knew Rent Control Was So Controversial?; Festival Facts; Correction

  February 13, 2002

• Legends in Our Own Minds

  A new report shows the housing shortage wasn't caused by the dot-com boom -- but by lack of housing construction

  January 30, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from March 14, 2001

  March 14, 2001

• The Great Minnow Hunt

  Why did the U.S. Attorney's Office angle for fingerlings -- and apparently ignore trophy catches -- during its corruption investigation at the San Francisco Housing Authority?

  December 6, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from August 30, 2000

  August 30, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  August 23, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  August 16, 2000

• The Case for Ending Rent Control

  August 9, 2000

• Mecklin

  February 16, 2000

• South to the Future

  February 2, 2000

• The Grid

  May 27, 1998

• Taking a Short-Term View

  August 6, 1997

• Outside the bedroom, BDSM practitioners can't take punishment

  May 13, 2009