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Senator Leno Introduces Bill to Close Ellis Act Loophole for San Francisco

Senator Mark Leno recently introduced new legislation that would help mitigate the negative impacts of Ellis Act evictions in San Francisco. Senate Bill 364 closes a loophole in the Ellis Act that...

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City Purchases New Affordable Family Housing Site in the Mission

  Mayor Edwin M. Lee has introduced an $18.5 million purchase and sale agreement to the Board of Supervisors to allow the city to acquire a previously entitled market-rate parcel at 490 South Van Ness...

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Frederick Douglas Haynes Gardens Housing Complex Tenants Win Last-minute...

  By Wade Woods   After several days of twist and turns, residents of the historic Frederick Douglas Haynes Garden housing complex could breathe a little easier after learning that their apartments...

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SF Mayor Unveils Blueprint for 10,000 Permanent Affordable Homes Housing...

  Mayor Ed Lee unveiled a blueprint to provide more than 10,000 permanent affordable homes to San Francisco families and residents by 2020, which requires the introduction of five pieces of affordable...

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Eviction Protections 2.0 Passes Into Law Tenants, housing organizations,...

Eviction Protections 2.0 is now law in San Francisco, after Mayor Ed Lee decided against a veto of the legislation last Friday.   After getting news of a possible veto, hundreds of supporters of the...

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OP-ED: Congresswoman Maxine Waters Calls For More Public Housing Protections

By Lynda Carson   In a celebration of the privatization of our public housing, which threatens the poor, elderly and disabled with displacement from their housing, on Oct. 14, Mayor Ed Lee was joined...

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Elecciones en SF muestra victorias y derrotas para Grupos de Derecho a la...

Las elecciones de 2015 en San Francisco dieron en los resultados que eran en su mayoría desalentadores para las organizaciones de derechos de vivienda y activistas contra el aburguesamiento, con las...

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Justice Department to Investigate San Francisco Police Department

By Soumya Karlamangle, The LA Times and other sources   The U.S. Department of Justice is beginning a review of the San Francisco Police Department, which recently came under fire for the shooting of...

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Witnesses Dispute Police Account of Homeless Man’s Killing in SF Mayor Lee...

By Julia Wong and Michael Rosen, The Guardian and Fusion   A key witness to the police shooting of a homeless man in San Francisco last Thursday has come forward to say that the man was “relaxed,”...

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SF Hunger Strikers Demand Firing of Police Chief Suhr

  A group of about 10 hunger strikers have taken up camp in San Francisco in front of the Mission Police Station to protest the recent fatal officer-involved shootings, calling on Mayor Ed Lee to fire...

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