By Housing is a Human Right
Nearly 10 years ago, on July 28, 2016, Zillow Chief Economist Dr. Svenja Gudell released a “Zillow analysis” about the kinds of apartments built in America — luxury units compared to affordable Ten years later, though, Gudell’s findings, and the warning that came with it, are more relevant than ever.
By Beth Porter
September 13, 2025
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie (Kirk) as a Christian motivational speaker because that’s all that ever came across her feed.
I showed her videos she’d never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the clips of him as a perfectly nice loving man and father.
By TIM REDMOND
OCTOBER 16, 2023
It’s too early to know what the local news media will do about a Board of Supes committee deciding today to once again delay Mayor London Breed’s extensive changes in local housing approval rules.
But based on a big piece in the SF Standard today, we can guess: It will be all about the Nimbys continuing to slow down changes that would allow more housing in the city and bring down prices.
Written by Josh Koehn
Published Oct. 16, 2023
In the dog days of summer, while many California state legislators were vacationing or raising campaign money during the monthlong recess, Scott Wiener was convening secret meetings. The state senator and a close-knit crew of housing wonks were hatching a plan to make an 11th-hour amendment to one of his bills—one that would surely raise the hackles of some of his fiercest critics.
By Danielle Echeverria
San Francisco Chronicle
The 680-unit building, proposed for a site across from the San Francisco Zoo, would rise more than 580 ft in a neighborhood currently defined largely by low-rise buildings and single-family homes. City officials have said that, while they encourage density and residential development in the area, the proposed project is several times taller than what regulations allow in the neighborhood.