Other - San Francisco

"In the old city, we are condemned to bitter struggle over what ultimately may be too little to matter."

The thing about San Francisco is that while greenfields have been exhausted in the city, the San Francisco Bay Area is largely undeveloped. We are always arguing over San Francisco, or Palo Alto (ick). Outside of the 47 square miles of San Francisco proper are almost 3200 square miles in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties.

There's No Substitute For A Substitute

Interesting argument for Singapore-style dense, livable greenfield development. Probably another good idea that will be strangled in its crib by California's tax structure.

12/16/15

Progressive political organizations in SF (and other ways to get involved)

Googled "social democrats san francisco" but was disappointed, although apparently there used to be such a group.

Gonna start this as a list sans commentary but will come back and add notes.

Spur
The League of Pissed-Off Voters
Bay Area New Democrats
San Francisco For Democracy
California contact for Social Democrats USA
Democratic Socialists of America local chapters
Vacancies on SF boards, commissions and task forces (via a helpful friend who mentions you can audit their meetings (open by law) or peruse past meeting minutes)

I know nothing about some of these so if some of them are fronts for AppGooAmFace or NIMBYs don't get mad.

11/02/15

Thinking about getting a 'FUCK PROP 13' tattoo on my forearm

SF has 379k housing units, Case-Schiller index is up 60% in 5 yrs. Presuming $1M median sale, this is a $140B wealth increase to SF owners!
— Michael Ducker (@miradu) November 2, 2015

09/19/15
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Waiting on Valencia to get into a Severed Heads show, a gorgeous lowrider glides past bumping hip-hop.

02/23/15

San Francisco Non-Profits

This random list from the Bold Italic is a start I guess

01/09/15

Recently in California

12/03/13

Getting closer to the bottleneck now

graph of SF sunrise and sunset times over time

Those are months along the bottom, read up: sunrise at 7, sunset at 9, etc.

11/13/13

Paging bikers and map geeks

Subway-style maps of SF bike routes

Because hills.

09/27/13

happening

I should check out these bayimproviser event listings. If you like modern electronic / classic stuff maybe you should too.

02/15/13

Mission rental market stabilizing

Graphs!

Apparently apartment availability bottomed out in August of 2011. Rents for studios are even starting to decrease. Sounds like it's still hell out there, though.

01/31/12

I made a thing

We were sitting in the Botanical Garden in some kind of faux-classical bit of architecture, looking at a gray sky.

"I wonder if it's sunny in the Mission ... "

isitsunnyinthemission.com

11/16/11

San Francisco hillside