Renters in Foreclosure

Keep The Lights On (City Insider Column)
SF Chronicle

Foreclosures Hit City, Renters
SF Chronicle

New Outreach Program for Tenants of Foreclosed Homes
Beyond Chron

KGO TV Beyond the Headlines
(Interview w/ Assessor, Phil Ting and Sara Shortt: Part 3 &4 )

Podcast of live interview on Pirate Cat Radio (featuring Ben Ehrenreich of the Nation Magazine and Sara Shortt)

Dont Leave Your Home
SF Bay Guardian

Renters' eviction notices often illegal in S.F.
SF Chronicle

SF renters threatened by foreclosures
ABC7

Renters Fighting Back Against Foreclosure Evictions
KTVU2

SF Tenants Suffering from Foreclosure Effects
KCBS

New Help for SF Renters
KGO 810am

SF: Outreach Program to Benefit Tenants of Properties Facing Foreclosure
CBS5

Foreclosure's hidden victims 
August 15, 2008, SF Chronicle

Public Housing/ SF Housing Authority

Newsom kept 81% of vows, self-report finds
SF Chronicle

Former S.F. Housing Authority director lands in Miami
SF Chronicle

Right of Return: Public Housing in San Francisco's Hunters Point
Journal of Race, Poverty and the Environment

Potrero Terrace and Annex to be Redeveloped
Potrero View

S.F. Mayor Names New Head of Housing Authority
SF Chronicle

S.F. Tenants Don't Trust City's Motives
 SF Chronicle  

Housing Authority Looks to 311 to Flush out Backlog
The Examiner

Mayor Newsom Names Interim Head of S.F. Public Housing 
 SF Chronicle

Gregg Fortner Out as Head of SF Housing Authority
SF Chronicle

Fixing Mess at Hunters View Won't be Quick, Easy or Cheap 
SF Chronicle

Supes Support Alice Griffith Tenants–-But Endorse Lennar
Beyond Chron

What Newsom Faces in Aftermath of Scandal
 SF Chronicle

Budget Fears for Public Housing Officials,
SF Chronicle

Who's in Charge Here? Amid Rising Criticism of S.F.'s
Public Housing, Commissioners Often Cancel Their Meetings
 SF Chronicle

As feds cut funds, S.F.’s public housing is threatened
SF Examiner

U.S. Cuts Sec. 8 Housing Subsidy Bay Area Rents, Aid
Voucher Values Decline
SF Chronicle

Fortner Tries to Keep His Wits
SF Chronicle

Feds Cut Housing While SF Advances Solutions
Beyond Chron

Section 8 Public Hearing
KPFA Evening News

KALW Radio  "Auditing Bureaucracy" Section 8 (Click on 2/19/06)

聯 邦住 屋 款削減 金山房客抗議
World Journal

The nation's biggest player in the apartment rental
business has found huge profits in low-income housing
SF Weekly

Rent Control

KPFA Morning Show (listen at 1:05:06),Dec 8th

KPFA Evening News (listen at 18:34), Dec 6th

Newsom: I will veto tenant eviction legislation
SF Examiner

Building built in the '80s? Sorry, you're out

Where Would we Be Without Rent Control?
SF Bay Guardian

Renters' protests aren't enough to sway mayor
SF Chronicle

Interview on BBC News "Up All Nite" (listen at 3:22)

Renters Protest at City Hall
KPFA Evening News (play at 36.11)

San Francisco proposal would cheat landlords
LA Times Editorial

San Francisco beefs up renter protections
LA Times

S.F. seeks to strengthen renter protections
SF Chronicle

3 new S.F. rent laws in the works
SF Chronicle

Protesters in Oakland, S.F., Gather to Protect Rent Control
March 16, 2008, SF Chronicle

Foes Mobilize to Fight Rent Control Measure
March 13, 2008, Bay Area Reporter

Tenants Protest Rent Control Initiative
November 15, 2007 Golden Gate [X]Press

SFTU Keeps Up Pressure on Ellis Act Evictors
August 29, 2005, Beyond Chron

Tenancies-in-common battle hits courtroom North Beach
owner wants to convert a 6-unit property
SF Chronicle

Rent Control Doesn't Help Tenants
When Landlords Add a New Roof
SF Chronicle

S.F. Extends for One Year Rent-Increase Reprieve to
'Vulnerable' Tenants
SF Chronicle

Renters Hope Prop. N Will Stunt the Growth of TICs
SF Chronicle

Apartments Go to Highest Web Bidder
SF Chronicle

Affordable Housing

Planning panel OKs housing project
Bay Area Reporter

Affordable Housing for LGBT Seniors Launched at 55 Laguna
Bay Times

Supervisors Support Strengthening Affordable Housing Law
May 11‚ 2006, Beyond Chron

City 5,000 units behind affordable housing goal
SF Chronicle

Without Housing, the Poor Will Perish
December 2006, The Street Spirit

Housing Conditions

Housing Riddled with Violations Neighborhood Survey
Shows Rampant Problems in Single-Room Occupancy Units
September 23, 2005, SF Chronicle

Hunters Point residents blame health woes on
molds that thrive in leaky apartments
SF Chronicle

Supervisors Tackle Mold Issue At Hunters Point Apartments
SF Chronicle

Gentrification/ Displacement

Blacks Hit by Housing Costs Leave SF Behind
New York Times

Census shows black population plummeting in last decade in SF
SF Chronicle

S.F. Eviction Fighters Given Boot Themselves
Skyrocketing rents forcing out nonprofits
SF Chronicle