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Mayor Ed Lee and District 9 Supervisor David Campos are forging plans to minimize Ellis Act evictions, the San Francisco Chronicle reports today. The idea is to prevent use of the Ellis Act by landlords by making it so costly it’s not worth it. Who will be first?
And will Lee or Campos’ plans curb the city-wide rent climb? San Francisco now has the highest median rent among the country’s largest cities, supplanting New York, the San Francisco Examiner reports this morning.
Remember why the tech boom is affecting San Francisco. One of its many attractions is culture. Participate in it tonight. Alley Cat Books will host a bilingual poetry event, Voz Sin Tinta, featuring poets JM Santos, Cindy Bernal, Ahnvu Buchanan and Brooke Schifano with an open mic afterward. Alley Cat Books is located at 3036 24th St. Admission is Free. For more information, call (415) 824-1761.
Alexander Mullaney is a journalist and publisher in San Francisco. In 2008, he founded The Ingleside Light, a monthly neighborhood newspaper with a circulation of 10,000. In The Ingleside Light he reports on community affairs and publishes the work of both local and student journalists and photographers. He sits on the board of directors of the Geneva Car Barn and Powerhouse, the Ocean Avenue Association, and the San Francisco Neighborhood Newspaper Association. In the summer of 2013, Mullaney organized and managed two community journalism courses for youth with City College of San Francisco and the non-profit Geneva Car Barn and Powerhouse. The pilot program paid students stipends, offered both high school and college credit, and published their articles and photographs in The Ingleside Light. He intends to find funding to offer the program in 2014. Mullaney holds a bachelors degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University. He is studying multimedia and longform writing at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He plans to use his time at graduate school to expand his reportage to produce stories for the public good.
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I love these updates, they get my day started on the right foot. Just a correction, District 9 Supervisor is David Campos, NOT John Campos (http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=2117)
Fixed! Thank you, JD.