Public health problems in Oakland linked to housing crisis – SFGate
http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Housing-crisis-linked-to-public-health-problems-9193855.php Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle rswan@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @rachelswan Sent from my SmartShoe more…
Governor’s housing plan is a formula for more inequality – The San Francisco Examiner
Governor’s housing plan is a formula for more inequality – The San Francisco Examiner http://www.sfexaminer.com/governors-housing-plan-formula-inequality/ Last month, more than ninety corporate CEOs, tech investors and their allies called for quick passage of what the governor describes as his “affordable housing” plan. They assert that this plan would solve a housing crisis that threatens their businesses […] more…
How to make expensive cities affordable for everyone again – The Washington Post
How to make expensive cities affordable for everyone again – The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/19/how-to-make-expensive-cities-affordable-for-everyone-again/ How to make expensive cities affordable for everyone again (Illustrations by Rachel Orr/The Washington Post, iStock) Last week, we wrote about a new report from the California Legislative Analyst’s Office that found that poorer neighborhoods that have added more market-rate housing in the Bay […] more…
City Pushes Plan For More Density, Affordability, Across SF Neighborhoods
Are you willing to have taller buildings and more market-rate housing in your neighborhood in order to get more affordable units? City planners are proposing a policy that is asking neighborhoods across San Francisco to grapple with this question. Called the Affordable Housing Bonus Program (AHBP), it combines recent legislation and legal decisions to argue for a […] more…
America’s red state crisis – CSMonitor.com
America’s red state crisis – CSMonitor.com http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2015/1105/America-s-red-state-crisis There is growing evidence that many Americans – particularly working-class whites in red states – are struggling to survive and have lost faith in the American government’s ability to help. By Patrik Jonsson, Staff writer / November 5, 2015 View video A supporter listens to Republican presidential candidate Donald […] more…
1400 Mission: A Telling Tale Of Challenges For Housing In The City
This article, written by Marjorie Beggs, was originally published in Central City Extra’s October 2015 issue (pdf). You can find the newspaper distributed around area cafes, nonprofits, City Hall offices, SROs and other residences – and in the periodicals section on the fifth floor of the Main Library. It was a sweet bit of chronological […] more…
Tannery Arts Center
Tannery Arts Center » Background http://tanneryartscenter.org/about/tac-background/ The Tannery Arts Center is a joint project developed by the City of Santa Cruz, Artspace Projects, Inc. a nationally acclaimed nonprofit developer of affordable space for artists and arts organizations and a local nonprofit, The Tannery Arts Center, Inc. a local nonprofit organization governed by a board of […] more…
ReWhy One Indie Artist Is Moving Back To Little Rock From Alamo Square”
Independent artist Chris Dumas moved to Alamo Square from the Midwest more than a decade ago to be a part of the San Francisco experience. But the thing he’s looking for is no longer in a coastal destination, but back home. Little Rock is “still regional, still vital and very local, and that’s not […] more…
How to work in tech and still be a “good san franciscan” | San Francisco
http://brokeassstuart.com/sf/2015/02/21/how-to-work-in-tech-and-still-be-a-good-san-franciscan/ How to work in tech and still be a “good san franciscan” I saw this image on my friend Tuffy’s Facebook page. He had taken it somewhere in the Mission and decided to share it. I thought “well this is gonna stir some shit” and then posted it on the Broke-Ass Stuart FB page. I had […] more…
Netanyahu Says Never to a State for Palestinians – NYTimes.com
Netanyahu Says Never to a State for Palestinians – NYTimes.com http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/world/middleeast/benjamin-netanyahu-campaign-settlement.html Netanyahu Says Never to a State for Palestinians JERUSALEM — Under pressure on the eve of a surprisingly close election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Monday doubled down on his appeal to right-wing voters, declaring definitively that if he was returned to […] more…
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