Affordable Housing Means We All Gotta Pay

A lot of American cities have fucked up in a very important way: they haven’t been building enough housing. And just turning the shed in the back yard into a rental ain’t gonna cut it.

A lot of American cities have fucked up in a very important way: they haven’t been building enough housing. And just turning the shed in the back yard into a rental ain’t gonna cut it.

San Francisco’s Crissy Field is a treeless stretch of grass nestled in the armpit of the Golden Gate Bridge. The setting is picturesque, but the location—foggy, windswept, inaccessible—sucks. This did not stop Senator Bernie Sanders from summoning his supporters there on Monday, for what would turn out to be the last…
Nowhere is America’s affordable housing crisis more acute than in the California Bay Area. The problem: piss poor planning. Incredibly, an actual solution may be at hand.
Just hours after one of his officers shot and killed an apparently unarmed black woman, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr resigned on Thursday at the urging of Mayor Ed Lee, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
A new study, reportedly the first of its kind, from the UC Berkeley school of public health has found that the mortality rate for homeless youth in San Francisco is 10 times higher than their peers who have a place to live.
On April 15, Politico reports, George and Amal Clooney will host a fundraiser for the Hillary Victory Fund at the Bay Area-home of venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar, of “Uber for Planes” notoriety. To sit at the head table, a couple must contribute or raise $353,400.
In San Francisco and Silicon Valley, housing is expensive and in short supply. All throughout the Bay Area, cities are discussing where the hell all their schoolteachers are supposed to live.
The trains around San Francisco (the BART, or “Bay Area Rapid Transit”) is a mess tonight, as it is most nights. Just ask anyone from San Francisco! Tonight is such a mess, though, that whoever runs the @SFBART Twitter account decided to be very honest with its indignant followers.
Another week is here, and with it, another story about the affluent, techie-infested caricature that San Francisco has become. Hey, assholes: step one to surviving this trying time is to build more fucking housing.
Federal officials announced on Sunday that the U.S. Department of Justice will conduct a “comprehensive review” of the San Francisco Police Department, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Five SFPD officers shot and killed Mario Woods, a black man, in contested circumstances last December.
San Francisco residents refuse to stop tearing the city apart with their highly corrosive, free-flowing urine, and the city has apparently decided to beat them at their own game, sort of: San Francisco just installed its first “open-air urinal,” a microcosm of the much larger open-air urinal that is the Fog City…
Black Lives Matter demonstrators halted traffic Monday afternoon on the five-lane westbound span of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, the Guardian reports, chaining themselves to their cars.
A California judge ruled today that a group of San Fransisco cops who exchanged racist and homophobic text messages about “monkeys,” “niggers,” “half breeds,” and other slurs will not face punishment, citing the statute of limitations.
On Friday, the Associated Press reports, as several more cell-phone videos of the fatal police shooting of Mario Woods emerged, a lawyer representing Woods’ mother announced that she was filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of San Francisco.
The San Francisco man who authorities said had stabbed someone an hour before he was killed in a barrage of police gunfire Wednesday, was identified Thursday as Mario Woods, the San Francisco Examiner reports.
A man with a knife was shot and killed by police in San Francisco on Wednesday, the San Francisco Examiner’s Michael Barba reports on Twitter. Police say he matched the description of a man who had stabbed someone in the area shortly before.
SFGate has the horrifying story of a transgender woman in San Francisco who was savagely attacked by a couple Sunday night in the Mission District, for no apparent reason other than that she is a transgender woman. It’s the second time she’s been attacked in a year. Damn it.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Department is investigating an incident in which two officers were captured on video using their clubs to brutally beat a suspect lying flat on his belly in the street, reports SFGate.
A writer for San Francisco blog SFist says her Uber driver threatened to rape and kill her Thursday night after he became outraged that he couldn’t find her location. After she published her disturbing account of the incident, she reported Uber called to apologize and let her know it has cut ties with the driver.