SF News Poll Shows 65% Support For Halting Development In The Mission According to a late February survey of 602 likely voters conducted by David Binder and Associates and reported on by the Examiner, 65 percent favor a time-out on “new project approvals in the
SF News Airbnb Law Impossible To Enforce, Says Agency Tasked With Enforcement Less than two months after the controversial Airbnb-legalization ordinance took effect, the city agency that has been dealing with the registration nightmare of the city's many thousands of Airbnb hosts, the Planning Department,
SF News Mark Leno Once Again Proposes Bill To Slow Down Ellis Act Evictions In a third attempt at curbing speculative Ellis Act evictions by opportunistic investors, state senator Mark Leno is introducing a bill this session, similar to one that failed to pass last year. The
SF News Campos Calls Wiener 'The Ghost Of Ronald Reagan' In Re: Housing Policy On this week's episode of Board of Supervisors Inside Baseball, we have a little bit of a scuffle happening between Supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener. After Wiener unleashed a barbed essay earlier
SF News Is The Answer Simply More Housing, Or More Affordable Housing? The Debate Rages On. After Supervisor David Campos last week started suggesting that the Mission neighborhood might need a moratorium on new market-rate housing construction, the debate has been reignited again over whether our housing crisis is
SF News David Campos Seeks To Possibly Stop Market-Rate Housing Around 24th Street BART One controversial news item this week is talk by Supervisor David Campos of a moratorium on any more new market-rate housing in the quickly gentrifying Mission district something that a lot of people
SF News Amended Ellis Act Relocation Law Caps Landlord Payouts At $50K Supervisor David Campos has come back to the Board with a new, dialed back version of the Ellis Act payout legislation that was previously passed and took effect last summer only to be
SF News Campos Concedes To Chiu; Both Candidates Issue Gratuitous Statements David Campos made a phone call to David Chiu Thursday evening to concede the relatively close race for Assembly District 17. As Chiu wrote on Facebook, "We had a positive conversation and agreed
SF News Jane Kim's Shoes Win Everything: Observations From My Tour Of Election Victory Parties Last Night I've never been to any Election Night parties in S.F., so when a politically connected friend invited me along for a four-party tour last night to kiss a few rings, I figured
SF News Just How Many Trees Have Died For This Year's Election Mailers? Does anyone besides elderly shut-ins read election mailers? It's not possible yet to know how many millions of dollars are being wasted on all the heavy-stock mail pieces that are stuffing your mailboxes,
SF News Campos vs. Chiu: Progressives Raising Progressively More Campaign Money It’s ‘commie vs. commie’ in the Nov. 4 Assembly race of David Chiu vs. David Campos, a rematch of the exact same candidates you chose between in this past June’s primary
SF News Ellis Act Payout Law Heads To Ninth Circuit For Appeal City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced late Wednesday that his office would be appealing a federal judge's ruling that struck down the recent San Francisco ordinance requiring large lump-sum payouts to tenants evicted under
SF News Scott Wiener Jumps On Truvada Train, Tells The World He Is On It Sometimes our gay Supervisors have to battle it out for who's courting the gay vote better, and this week it's all about Truvada the HIV-prevention pill that Supervisor David Campos says more people
SF News Supervisor Pushing For Free/Cheap HIV-Prevention Drug Truvada The HIV-prevention drug Truvada, a.k.a. PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) has been a topic of approximately 9 trillion conversations in gay bars over the last year, in large part due to the growing
SF News San Francisco Candidates' War Chests, By The Numbers Hey, maybe you heard that we have an election in San Francisco this November? With all the sturm und drang over ballot measures on taxing sodas, raising the minimum wage and protecting drivers,
SF News Landlord Advocates Sue City Over Ellis Act Legislation Tenant advocates scored a big win this year when a new local ordinance, sponsored by Supervisor David Campos, passed the Board of Supervisors with a veto-proof 9-2 vote, guaranteeing that tenants could no
SF News Local Ellis Act Law Dissed By Mayor Lee As State Limits Move Forward A new statewide law that will prevent Ellis Act evictions by flip-happy real estate speculators passed a judiciary committee vote 5-2 and is expected to be heard on the full Senate floor next
SF News Ellis Act Evictions Will Now Cost Landlords A Whole Lot More, Thanks To David Campos The Board of Supervisors last night passed some new legislation, originally proposed by David Campos, that's going to make evicting a tenant under the Ellis Act way more expensive than it previously was.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tamale Lady's 16th Street Shop Due Open By Late Spring As we learned just before the new year, Virginia "Tamale Lady" Ramos is finally going to get her own brick-and-mortar storefront in the Mission which will soon become a go-to tamale destination. Today
SF News Google Will Cover Two Years Of Free Muni For Low Income Youth Hailed as one of the largest private contributions to city services in San Francisco's history, Google has agreed to donate $6.8 million to fund the Free Muni for Low Income Youth pilot
SF News Supe Chiu Calls Campos Out On Record Against Domestic Violence When the difficult topic of domestic violence victims came up last year in a vote, I stood with the victims while David Campos did not. [David Chiu, 2/13/14] As the battle
SF News Campos Holds Hearing On Ellis Act Evictions; Mayor Ed Lee Gets On Board With Legislation We told you last week that Supervisor David Campos is pushing the City Attorney to draft legislation that would create a greater disincentive to landlords considering Ellis Act evictions. Yesterday Campos held a
SF News Supervisor Campos To Introduce Anti-Eviction Legislation Supervisor David Campos revealed over the weekend that he plans to introduce some new legislation to counteract the eviction trend. He's hoping that a new law would provide "incentives against the Ellis Act"
SF News Campos Wants Ammiano's Assembly Seat Continuing the path paved by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D9's David Campos tossed his hat into the ring to take Tom's seat once he's termed out. BCN/NBC Bay Area notes: "If Campos wins
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tamale Lady Launches Online Fundraising Campaign Two weeks after we reported that much-loved neighborhood fixture Virginia Ramos, aka The Tamale Lady, was no longer welcome to sell her tamales at Zeitgeist, a new Indiegogo fundraising campaign has been set
