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textBayview Hunters Point file suit against San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) by Francisco Da Costa
It has been some months now since we filed a suit in Sacramento against the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA). One Gloria Young the Clerk of the Board from City Hall is named. Of course the main culprit is Marsha Rosen who has done a lot to adversely impact thousands. Time will tell. Other called to question Sophie Maxwell, Dennis Herrera, and Aaron Peskin....
Posted: Wed, Feb 28, 2007 7:09am PST
videoPortable Toilets for Fresno Homeless? (video/x-ms-wmv 10.7MB) by Mike Rhodes
Fresno City council member Jerry Duncan today made a formal request to the City Manager’s office to put portable toilets near the homeless encampments in the downtown area. The lack of facilities has been a significant problem for both the homeless and business owners. Hear Duncan’s proposal in the 3 minute video clip (below)....
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2007 3:42pm PST
textSusan Leal from SFPUC falters into a cesspool of a series of inept decisions by Francisco Da Costa
Susan Leal is NO engineer but she heads the SF Public Utilities Commission and is paid over $300,000 a year plus perks. Under her ineptness, the Hetch Hetchy project that had four major pipes bringing water from Hetch Hetchy near Yosemite has been reduced to 3 pipes. We have yet to attend to the 900 miles of sewer pipes and over 1900 miles of clean water pipes - all over 70 years old and leaking, all over San Francisco. How can the SFPUC drinking water be clean when the pipes that bring it to...
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2007 6:24am PST
textStop the Manhattanization of Telegraph Ave by STAND
Two important upcoming meetings on PLANNING & ZONING in north Oakland: Wednesday, February 28th and Thursday, March 1st...
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2007 1:31am PST
text49ers should stay away from Candlestick Park and the surrounding pollution by Francisco Da Costa
49ers should stay away from Candlestick Park and the surrounding area it is too polluted. It has been for many, many years. The City and County of San Francisco and Mayor Gavin Newsom should clean up the area. Complete, with the State Park near by that was once a garbage dump site. The near by Yosemite Slough that is full of PCBs. The Shipyard that is a Superfund Site. When it rains the Parking Lot surround Candlestick Park floods - much of the water - polluted....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2007 6:37am PST
textBad Conditions at Tenderloin Playground Keep Families Away by Ben Malley‚ Beyond Chron (reposted)
“The new children’s playground is a jewel in the heart of the city’s Tenderloin district, traditionally one of San Francisco’s densest and toughest neighborhoods. Children growing up in the neighborhood are often faced with having very few safe, open space areas in which to play. Turk-Hyde Mini-Park will help alleviate the problem by offering youth an enclosed, modern play area…” - Press release by SF Rec. & Parks Dept., 2001...
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2007 6:27am PST
imageDeveloper Russell Shaw Hit With CEQU Requirements For Oxford Valley
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by brightpathvideo
For a few years now, Russell Shaw has been trying to build about 26 luxury homes on fragile watershed acerage in San Rafael, that contains significant Miwok archeological sites. He recently withdrew his initial plan and submitted a single home construction plan on the Oxford Valley site that many in the neighborhood viewed as an attempt at skirting CEQA requirements....
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2007 2:56pm PST
document1st Annual Homeless Awareness Day at UC Davis
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by Richard Cipian
Dear Readers, This article is about an event activists and college students are planning at UC Davis for Feb 27th, 2007 at noon at the MU on the quad. Students and anti-poverty allies are putting together the 1st annual Homelessness and Hunger Awareness Day. The day has the goal of educating students at the UC Davis campus as well as community members about the needs of the homeless population as well as those who are impoverished in the Davis community. At the event we will have a rally co...
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2007 1:44am PST
textTake Action for Health Care in California! by via Breast Cancer Action
1. Day of Action for SB 840 – Universal Health Care Act of 2007 2. San Francisco Forum on Health Care, February 23, 2007 3. Women LEAD – Women’s Voices in the Health Care Reform Debate...
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 10:23pm PST
imagePoor People Gonna Rise Up!
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by Mike Rhodes
The Homelessness Marathon put a spotlight on Fresno and the way this city treats its homeless residents. The story that follows is about a one hour panel that was held during the event. The Homelessness Marathon was 14 hours long. The photo below is from the first panel, which included Cynthia Greene, Joanna Garcia, Pamela Kincaid, Jeremy Alderson, and Alphonso Williams. Jeremy Alderson is the host and producer of the Homelessness Marathon. The guests are all a part of a lawsuit against ...
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 1:41pm PST
imageHumanity For Homeless now partially funded by the homeless
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by Tim Rumford
Update on the status of Humanity for Homeless, a loose nit organization that feeds and provides cloths to the homeless as well fighting for their rights. Idea for Poor Peoples Union discussed....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 9:28am PST
textSister Bernie Does it Again by Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron (reposted)
As we reported yesterday , the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing has decided to transform a long-vacant office building at 150 Otis Street into low-income housing. This represents a reversal in the city’s prior plan to sell the site to the highest bidder, and another major victory for Sister Bernie Galvin of Religious Witness With Homeless People. Galvin used her position on the Surplus Property Committee to vigorously fight to transform 150 Otis into affordable housing, and the Mayor’s...
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 6:23am PST
textMcGoldrick Seeks to Bring 2-Unit Building Under City Inclusionary Law by Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron (reposted)
San Francisco Supervisor Jake McGoldrick introduced legislation on February 13 that could potentially require builders of two or more units to provide a higher percentage of discounted units than builders of luxury downtown highrises. Prior to July 2006, the city’s inclusionary housing law covered only buildings of ten units or more. McGoldrick sponsored the law reducing this number to the current five, and now wants to reduce the number to two. Ironically, McGoldrick is also carrying legisla...
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 9:26am PST
textFeds Cut Housing While San Francisco Advances Solutions by Paul Hogarth, Beyond Chron (reposted)
HUD press secretary Phil Mangano came to San Francisco yesterday to announce with Mayor Newsom that the City will receive $18.8 million in federal aid to end chronic homelessness – a $1.6 million increase over last year. But advocates point out that it’s only a $2 million increase over what the City got in 2003 – and that meanwhile the federal government has made drastic cuts in public housing that will drive many more families into homelessness....
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 9:25am PST
textOpen Letter To City Attorney/Erica Harrold: Oakland Slams Critics Of OHA Lawsuit by Lynda Carson
Oakland City Attorney's Office Lashes Out At The Critics Of The Lawsuit Filed Against Oakland's Housing Authority and The Attack On Public Housing Tenants!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2007 7:38pm PST
imageWatch The Cops As They Watch You
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by Tim Rumford
The recent crackdown on Homeless in Santa Cruz Ca...
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2007 9:25am PST
text"HOPE SF"? The Case for a Public Housing Bond by Sara Shortt, Beyond Chron (reposted)
In September, the Mayor announced that he would use "all of his political capital" to pass a bond measure which would finance the rehabilitation of the City's most distressed public housing developments. While the bond idea was a new one for many of us, the concept of leveraging local funding to rebuild the city's public housing came as no surprise to advocates familiar with the recent trends in federal housing policy....
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2007 6:33am PST
textCoaltion Working to Protect Secure Retirements Reacts to Governor's OPEB Commission by Ryan Rauzon
A coalition representing California’s teachers, nurses, peace officers, firefighters and other public employees said today that the announcement of those who will make up the Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission marks an initial step in the right direction towards the protection of the hard-earned retirement and health benefits of California’s public workers....
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 5:16pm PST
textFree Shit in the Bay Area by Hack Bloc Bay Area
Free Shit Bay Area is an online directory of independent spaces, Actions/events, and free goodies to help support the alternative /radical community in San Francisco Bay Area. This project is an open publishing system meaning, anyone can and you are encuraged to update the listings, zoom into the location you want to add and click submit listing!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 8:40am PST
textEyes on Newsom and Dufty as Healthy Saturdays Reintroduced by Ted Strawser, Beyond Chron (reposted)
After an independent study commissioned by Mayor Gavin Newsom was released last week and reported clear favorable impacts of car-free space in Golden Gate Park, Supervisor Jake McGoldrick announced his intention to send Healthy Saturdays legislation, vetoed by the Mayor last year, back to the Board of Supervisors today....
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 7:54am PST
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