Tag: rent control

State bill would put a rent cap on 11,000 homes in the Mission alone — but first it must pass

Jul 11, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Some 20,000 housing units in the Mission continue to be vulnerable to steep rent hikes, in the...

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Rent-controlled tenants claim harassment, neglect from Veritas Investments

Jan 13, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Penny Schoner, 84, lived happily in the one-bedroom apartment she’d had since the 1980s. That...

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Prop. 10: Californians like rent control, hate ballot measure that would expand rent control

Oct 29, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Your proposition may be good, but let’s have one thing understood: Whatever it is, I’m...

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Developments in Development: Repeal Effort

Oct 29, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, housing, planning, zoning...

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Developments in Development: Short Term

Oct 23, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission

Fur is flying nationwide as cities around the country figure out how to deal with the housing arm...

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New Fire Legislation Would Require More Communication from Landlords

Apr 26, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

San Francisco Supervisors David Campos and Jane Kim on Tuesday introduced legislation intended to...

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Supervisors Target Homesharing Platforms with Hefty Fines

Apr 26, 2016 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Some of the most progressive members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors are firing another...

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Tenant Advocates Denounce Startup Offering Buyout Services

Mar 30, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Technology, Today's Mission, Topics

Rent Masters, a startup offering to help tenants willing to move out of rent-controlled housing...

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Advocates Say Tenants Maintain Right to Return at Burned Building

Feb 26, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mission Fire, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Advocates for the tenants who were displaced by a fire at Mission and 22nd streets last year held...

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Developments in Development: Something’s up

Jan 17, 2016 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Either something is actually going on with the housing market or us media people are just so sick...

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Station 40 Landlords Halt Eviction, Start Mediation

Mar 27, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Today's Mission

The anticapitalist collective Station 40, which has been protesting its eviction from 16th street...

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Fire Victims Have Right to Return, Yet Few Do

Mar 24, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Mission Fire, Mobile, Today's Mission

Within a few days of the fire that destroyed their homes on 22nd and Mission Streets, the 65...

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Rising Costs Hit Teachers Hard

Nov 10, 2014 | Education, Elementary Schools, Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, High School, Middle Schools, Mobile, Today's Mission

Linda Perez, a teacher at Buena Vista Horace Mann, shares her home with nine people — only...

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Clip 4: Housing Crisis, 1978: Uprooted

Feb 18, 2014 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Today's Mission, Topics

Tomorrow, an interview with the late Harvey Milk.

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Clip 2: The Housing Crisis, 1978

Feb 13, 2014 | Housing, Local History, Mobile, Today's Mission, Topics

Mission History: Clips 1 and 2
Clip 3 on Thursday.

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VIDEO: Ellis Act evictions at 23rd and Florida Streets

Dec 21, 2013 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Multimedia, Today's Mission, Video

Ellis Act evictions are on the rise and in the news almost daily  – so much so that Mission...

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