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Housing
Five Reasons Why San Francisco Needs to Use Public Lands for Public Benefit, Not Luxury Housing
The most important public policy priority for San Francisco is to reserve its surplus land for affordable housing.
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How Your Tax Dollars Are Wasted to Build Luxury Apartments
“Subsidize our house, not the penthouse!” protesters chanted last month.
Five Reasons Why San Francisco Must Not Give Up Public Land for Market-Rate Development
A city plan to use public land for market-rate, rather than fully affordable housing, just doesn't make economic sense.
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Dismantling the Towers
What began as a mothers' crusade to protect their children from gangs, rats and roaches evolved into something else.
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As Gentrification Persists in San Francisco, Evictions Take New Forms
As rents continue to rise and gentrification spreads, unscrupulous landlords are using new tactics to evict tenants.
Hedge Fund-Backed Castellan Real Estate Group Intimidates New York City Tenants to Vacate
Castellan continues to force out tenants.
No Second Chances When It Comes to Housing
Advocates are organizing against what they say is an overlooked civil rights issue: the exclusion of ex-offenders from public housing.
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Privatizing Public Housing: The “Genocide of Poor People“
Tenants' groups are raising red flags over feds newest low-income housing plan.
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“Transit Revolution”: Will Los Angeles Become Gentrification Ground Zero?
The tension between improving LA's public transit infrastructure while not driving families out of their neighborhoods is ongoing.
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Housing Enforcement Group Sues M&T Bank for Discrimination
The unusual lawsuit draws on secret videotapes and recordings to argue that the bank's loan officers discriminated against blacks, Latinos and Asians who applied for mortgages.