San Francisco Spent Over $20,000 on a Trash Can
“We need to have a trash can that works for the city of San Francisco,” said city project manager Lisa Zhuo.
“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 author of the new book "San Fransicko", says the homelessness crisis is an addiction and mental health crisis enabled by policies that permit open-air drug scenes on public property and prevent police from enforcing laws
The San Fransicko author on fighting homelessness and mental illnesses without shredding civil liberties.
California's leaders can take the recent rise in property crime seriously without repeating the same "tough on crime" mistakes of the past.
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The otherwise positive proposals are undermined by affordability requirements and density restrictions.
The tradable development rights the city has in its possession are only made valuable by its insane restrictions on new development.
Family-owned burrito chain El Farolito will have to change its branding or pick a new neighborhood to open up its 12th location if it wants to avoid being ensnared in the city's restrictions on "formula retail."
Both Los Angeles and San Francisco struggle with restrictive land use regulations that raise the costs and completion times of housing projects. That same red tape is now hobbling projects aimed at helping alleviate homelessness.
While justifying why she defied her own indoor mask mandate, San Francisco's mayor unintentionally hit the nail on the head.
Rules are for the little people.
Whether a local burrito chain will be able to open another restaurant in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood could hinge on the precise name of the new location.
A string of adverse court decisions will stop the University of California Board of Regents from adding more students to its Berkeley campus and adding more hospital beds to its medical center in San Francisco
A congestion pricing proposal would have drivers pay $6.50 every time they enter a downtown zone.
The city approved developers' plans for a 10-unit complex. They built 29 homes instead. Now some of those illegal units could have to be dismantled.
San Francisco politicians are raising eyebrows at the high costs of an emergency program that provides secure camping sites to the city's homeless.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to landmark the longtime home of gay rights activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin.
The YIMBY Democrat wants to make it easier to build more housing in California's densest and most expensive cities.
So many people are leaving the state that it will soon lose a congressional seat.