Price Controls and Subsidies

Outmigration: Only District 6 Retains Its Black Population

Watch Kapowski's 'Section 8' Video: Old Age, Robot Rebellion, and Some Strange Iced Tea

Kapowski is a newish four-piece indie pop band from Oakland that has no guitars and may (or may not) be named after a certain cheerleader from Saved By The Bell. But regardless of its high school sitcom loyalties, the band's new video for "Section 8" is a winner: In the Perez Brothers-directed clip ... More >>

Homeless Veterans' Housing Grant Isn't Enough

What would a voucher get you in San Francisco?​There are more than 136,000 homeless veterans in the U.S., and California has more than a quarter of them. So while the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is patting itself on the back for handing over more than $4 million in grant money to the Bay A ... More >>

Parkmerced Agreement Won't Protect Tenants, Civil Grand Jury Says

Stay tuned for the future ... ​The Civil Grand Jury has released an interesting and curiously-timed report on the proposed Parkmerced development which validates the city's worst fears -- that tenants would no longer be protected by rent control laws.According to the report -- which was released a ... More >>

S.F. Housing Authority Given Deadline to Improve Section 8 Housing

San Francisco's own money pit​It has been well documented over the years that San Francisco's Housing Authority is in shambles; it can't collect rent on time, it can't keep records on file, and it hasn't been training its staff. And while federal authorities -- every year -- issue  reports de ... More >>

Rent wars: Court says landlord must make poor tenants rich

San Francisco's own money pit​It has been well documented over the years that San Francisco's Housing Authority is in shambles; it can't collect rent on time, it can't keep records on file, and it hasn't been training its staff. And while federal authorities -- every year -- issue  reports de ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

San Francisco's own money pit​It has been well documented over the years that San Francisco's Housing Authority is in shambles; it can't collect rent on time, it can't keep records on file, and it hasn't been training its staff. And while federal authorities -- every year -- issue  reports de ... More >>

Outside the bedroom, BDSM practitioners can't take punishment

San Francisco's own money pit​It has been well documented over the years that San Francisco's Housing Authority is in shambles; it can't collect rent on time, it can't keep records on file, and it hasn't been training its staff. And while federal authorities -- every year -- issue  reports de ... More >>

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, ... More >>

Business Conductor

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

SF Weekly Letters

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

Eminently Logical

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

Market: Mark It

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

Union, Heal Thyself

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

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

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

The Big One Could Destroy SF Rent Control

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

Profits for Developers Initiative

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

Letters to the Editor

Week of 4-11-2007

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, 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

S.F. Hosing Authority

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

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, December1, 2004

Letters to the Editor

Defending the Public Defender; Landlords vs. Tenants

Letters to the Editor

The Plane Facts; Review Redo; Winner or Loser? You Make the Call.; Grousing About Housing; Speechless

Letters to the Editor

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

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

Letters to the Editor

Letters from 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?

Letters to the Editor

Letters from August 30, 2000

Letters to the Editor

A City With a Serious Wait Problem; The Case for Printing Less-Controversial Stories

Letters to the Editor

Next Week: The Case Against Cable Cars;

The Case for Ending Rent Control

Next Week: The Case Against Cable Cars;

Mecklin

Get Me Rewrite

South to the Future

Developer Proposes Controversial Way to Lower S.F. Housing Costs: "Haven't you people ever heard of apartment buildings?" New York émigré asks.

The Grid

Developer Proposes Controversial Way to Lower S.F. Housing Costs: "Haven't you people ever heard of apartment buildings?" New York émigré asks.

Taking a Short-Term View

How landlords use corporate suites to evade rent control