Rent control battle in California heats up, opposing investors pump money Developers opposed to repeal of Costa-Hawkins Act have raised more than $124m in California. Al Jazeera · Oct 30, 2024
New law would let shoppers sue grocers The Neighborhood Grocery Protection Act was considered once before in 1984 Salon · Apr 17, 2024
San Francisco Bill Would Let People Sue Grocery Stores for Closing Too Quickly A proposed ordinance would empower people to sue supermarkets that close without giving the city six months' advance notice. Reason · Apr 5, 2024
Brickbat: Don't Go Yet San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Dean Preston has proposed an ordinance that would require supermarkets to provide at least six months' notice before closing any stores. It would also require supermarket executives to meet with community members before closing a store and require them to try to find a… Reason · Feb 27, 2024
Garry Tan says founders ‘have to be in San Francisco’ as Y Combinator ditches Mountain View headquarters for the big city Y Combinator moved its headquarters out of Mountain View last year. Fortune · Jan 12, 2024
San Francisco supervisors will take up resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza Supervisors in politically liberal San Francisco will vote on a resolution calling for a sustained cease-fire in Gaza, although its final wording is uncertain The Independent UK · Jan 9, 2024
San Francisco could get 90% of its homeless off the streets with the country’s fiercest housing speculation tax, but landlords are already fighting it tooth and nail The city by the bay has tens of thousands of vacant units and roughly 8,000 homeless, but will its vacant home tax have any effect? Fortune · Oct 21, 2023
May was worst month on record for fentanyl deaths in San Francisco despite crackdown Despite a state crackdown to seize fentanyl and arrest its traffickers and dealers in San Francisco, May was the city’s deadliest month for fentanyl overdoses on record, according to city and county data. Los Angeles Times · Jun 17, 2023
Tech-rooted groups seek to shake up San Francisco politics Tech entrepreneurs who flocked into San Francisco two decades ago bringing jobs and wealth, and also soaring housing prices and gentrification, are becoming a rising political force in a city they say is woefully off track The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2023
Tech consultant charged in SF murder of Cash App founder knew victim, but motive unclear The fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee last week reignited a debate over crime in San Francisco, with some high-profile figures decrying the killing as yet another example of rampant, wanton violence. Los Angeles Times · Apr 14, 2023
Police backtrack on 'killer robots' proposal after backlash to plan to blow suspects up San Francisco police had proposed using robots to deliver explosives against armed suspects when lives are at risk. Critics compared the plans to something out of a dystopian sci-fi film Daily Mirror · Dec 7, 2022