This is the second RAISE grant San Francisco has received since the Biden administration retooled the program to reward jurisdictions for adopting zoning reforms.
Service cuts that reflect falling demand and zoning reforms that bring more fare-paying residents back to cities could shore up transit agencies' budgets.
If you don't like San Francisco, that's fine, but don't tell tall tales about it.
Today, the Lone Star state counts 90 homeless people per every 100,000 residents. In California, the problem is almost five times as bad.
The city has not granted a single permit since the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms last June.
Stanford University psychologist Keith Humphreys misconstrues libertarianism and ignores its critique of prohibition's deadly impact.
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The rise of remote work has piqued developers' interest in converting empty downtown offices to apartments. Zoning codes and building regulations often make that impossible.
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In addition to six state charges, David DePape faces two federal charges, each punishable by decades in prison.
Local officials argue that the eye-popping sum is necessary due to rising construction costs, but experts disagree.
Data show that students admitted by lottery to San Francisco's Lowell High School are academically faring much worse than their peers.
A new ordinance passed by the city's Board of Supervisors allows police to request live access to private security cameras even for misdemeanor violations.
The proposed policy was offensive to property rights and disincentivized construction. The mayor's rejection of it shows the state's increasing interest in allowing more building.
In the Bay Area and in Los Angeles County, authorities are quickly learning there's little public will to follow their mandates.
“We need to have a trash can that works for the city of San Francisco,” said city project manager Lisa Zhuo.
State housing officials have launched a first-ever investigation of the city's housing policies and practices, setting the stage for far more sweeping interventions.
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The CDC and FDA, when confronted with scarce vaccine supply, refuse to learn from their COVID-19 mistakes.
"We have to make changes now to save lives," Brooke Jenkins said, announcing tougher penalties for fentanyl dealers.
Educational freedom is good for everybody but unions, bureaucrats, and the education establishment.
The city halted its practice of fining graffitied businesses during the pandemic. But now it's firing up its enforcement machine again.
The mayor vetoed a controversial ordinance that would have legalized more types of housing on paper while making it harder to build in practice.
Research and data points may not be enough to persuade voters that something different is worth trying.
Property owners can now build fourplexes in San Francisco, but only if they've owned the land for five years, place the new units under rent control, and don't try to make them much larger than a single-family home.
Miami and Austin lured people away from California. But the new tech hubs could end up repeating San Francisco’s mistakes.
St. Paul has seen a 61 percent decrease in building permits after the city imposed rent control on future housing.
Journalist Nancy Rommelmann reports from San Francisco on the ouster of a leading progressive district attorney.
Prosecutorial reform is one thing. Chesa Boudin’s incompetence is another.
Mayor London Breed, who has herself recently pivoted away from criminal justice reforms, will select Boudin's successor.
In Los Angeles and San Francisco, voters face candidates who promised criminal justice reforms but whose records have been disappointing.
This has nothing to do with the separation of church and state.
San Francisco and Los Angeles insist in suit that likely tens of millions have been illegitimately squeezed from small businesses by ADA plaintiffs without proper legal standing.
City politicians and union activists have said the temporary ban on new delivery warehouses is meant to send a message that the company can't just open a new facility without first providing generous "community benefits."
Supervisors have proposed legalizing fourplexes in a way that preserves NIMBYs’ ability to stop new housing. That could trigger the state’s obscure “builder’s remedy.”
San Fransicko author Michael Shellenberger on homelessness, crime, addiction, and his differences with progressives and libertarians.
"Progressive" school COVID policies no longer welcome in the capital of progressivism
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The 2021 pushback was about more than just the Virginia gubernatorial election, as the February 15 San Francisco recall will soon attest.
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