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About 50 activists demonstrated under sunny skies in the Castro on March 29, commemorating the 20th anniversary of ACT UP and demanding housing and healthcare for all....

At a March 27th meeting at City Hall, the San Francisco Youth Commission unveiled its budgetary priorities to an attentive and responsive Mayor Gavin Newsom. “Your priorities are certainly my priorities,” said Newsom after hearing all of the Commission’s various committees report out on their principal concerns....

IHSS Advocates decry Governor's gamble with independence for people with disabilities...

The mood was upbeat and celebratory at yesterday’s Land Use Committee meeting – as committee members unanimously voted to approve San Francisco’s largest rental housing project in fifty years. After Supervisor Chris Daly announced that the developer (Angelo Sangiacamo) has agreed to some last-minute amendments, the committee gave the project the green light. Supervisor Jake McGoldrick decided not to press with his additional amendments, allowing the project to finally go to a full Board meeti...

Tomorrow, the Berkeley City Council will hold a special 8:30 p.m. meeting at the Maudelle Shirek Building (formerly Old City Hall) to address the plight of the 40-plus independent documentary filmmakers, radio producers and other artists who face eviction from their longtime studios at the Saul Zaentz Media Center in West Berkeley....

Jose Morales, well-known as “San Francisco’s most tenacious tenant,” prevailed at the California Court of Appeals yesterday to – once again – save his home from demolition. In the latest phase of a never-ending struggle for the 78-year-old activist, a unanimous three-judge panel affirmed a prior Court ruling that the San Francisco Planning Commission and the Board of Appeal did not abuse their discretion when they rejected his landlord’s permit to gut Jose’s building....

Seven months after being overwhelmingly approved by the San Francisco Planning Commission, the rebuilding of the Trinity Plaza Apartments at 8th and Market will finally get a full and fair hearing at the Monday, March 19 Land Use Committee. The outcome of the hearing will decide whether San Francisco builds its largest rental housing project in over 50 years, and whether hundreds of Trinity Plaza tenants get new, upgraded permanently rent-controlled units at their current, often well below-ma...

Silicon Valley is supposed to be back on track after a six-year slump, but according to NAM contributing writer, Raj Jayadev, there is a permanent underclass in the area that is not benefiting from the "Sizzling" job market. Raj Jayadev is the director of Silicon Valley De-bug, a collective of writers, artists, workers and organizers in San Jose, Calif....

A local jury voted 11-1 yesterday to save the home of Susan Suval, a disabled tenant who has lived in her Sunset home for 26 years – after concluding that the landlord did not have a “good-faith” intent to move in. Even in San Francisco, owner move-in evictions can be difficult for tenants to win at trial because it generally boils down to the parties’ credibility – and there’s a prevailing feeling towards the right to live in your own property. Despite the City’s two-thirds tenant majority, ...

Come and support Senator Obama Oakland Rally, Black Farmers are an endangered species in the California Food and Farm community. Poor health outcomes directly related to the lack of fresh fruit and vegetables in our communites can be changed in the 2007 Farm Bill....