New Ordinance Amendments Regarding General Obligation Bond Passthroughs The SF Tenants Union helped pass legislation to close a loophole landlords had been exploiting to unfairly raise rents. The way General Obligation Bond Passthroughs are calculated has subsequently changed. In addition, Tenant Financial Hardship Applications used to only apply to some of the Passthrough. Now,…
Why it makes sense for stakeholders to sue the city for failing its affordable housing goals The Housing Element numbers are really funky and don’t make sense—and under Breed’s Administration, there may be no other option. Why it makes sense for stakeholders to sue the city for failing its affordable housing goals
New SF Board of Supervisors President Peskin Surprise! Aaron Peskin is the new Board of Supes president
New study shows private market can’t create workforce housing in SF The city’s own analysis shows that the entire Yimby narrative is based on a fundamental economic falsehood. The city could radically cut affordable-housing requirements, and the private market still won’t build anything other than super-luxury condos and apartments. New study shows private market can’t…
Breed Ordered Homeless Sweeps Without Warning New Evidence Shows From a declaration by Keki Marshall, former director of outreach and temporary shelter at the Department of Homelessness: Mayor Breed sent to staff to remove unhoused people from sight. She would order us to displace unhoused people by a certain date and time just because they…
Legal Advice and Referral Clinic 12/16, 4-6 pm, UC Hastings Upcoming Hastings & Bayview LARC Clinic Attorneys will give 30-minute consultations in housing/tenant questions, immigration, family law, personal injury, contracts, debt collection/bankruptcy, and some miscellaneous issues. Hastings LARC is happening in December on the 16th, 4 – 6 pm: Clients have the option to participate…
New Director of Operations and Activism for the SFTU! We are excited to have Roisin Isner start working on November 28, 2022 as the San Francisco Tenants Union’s Director of Activism and Operations. Welcome, Roisin!
With Bay Area housing construction stalled, developers look to squeeze more units into existing projects https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/housing-density-construction-17560033.php J.K. Dineen Nov. 5, 2022 In San Francisco real estate agency Tishman Speyer is looking to increase the density at 655 Fourth St. — the former site of the Creamery, a popular tech hangout in the 2010s — by…
The supes races are showing the impact of the corrupt redistricting process
Two types of eviction are rising in San Francisco. Advocates fear there’s ‘something else going on’ https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/eviction-notices-san-francisco-17553841.php Danielle Echeverria, Susie Neilson Nov. 3, 2022 A year after the state’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium expired, the number of eviction notices filed in San Francisco has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, a Chronicle analysis found. Data from the San Francisco…