Good afternoon!
Joe Eskenazi’s piece today on owners of Below Market Rate units shows how BMRs are far from anyone’s dream of a toehold in the city’s real estate market.
And then there is his story of the overzealous park ranger in Golden Gate Park.
Yujie Zhou looks into why it will be difficult to organize gig workers. Interestingly enough, academics and those who follow gig work carefully think the rideshare companies have done a good job of convincing gig workers – against their own interests – that remaining as contract employees is a good thing.
Go figure.
Lydia
The Latest News
‘This screws the sellers’: BMR owners say city pushing them to sell at big losses
When Simon and Amy Jansuk in 2018 won the San Francisco housing lottery for a Below Market Rate unit, it well and truly felt like winning the lottery. Now, it feels like they are being forced to sell at a loss.
Park Ranger threatens to ticket bike mechanics raising money for abortion rights
A strange confrontation broke out and, abruptly, ended Sunday involving a San Francisco park ranger and a group of bike mechanics doing free work on JFK Drive and donating all tips to abortion rights charities.Â
The dilemma with gig worker advocacy groups: ‘They can’t do shit,’ says driver
When gig workers, defying a state proposition, launched a union in front of Uber’s headquarters earlier this month, the historic move lacked one element: gig workers.Â
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