Tonight’s film is this 1912 footage of San Francisco’s Chinatown, which may be the earliest film chronicling Asian-Americans that we have. I’m not sure about that as a fact, but it h
Here is an interesting indigenous perspective on housing as a human right and how a capitalist market-based housing system is a disaster for everyone who can’t afford to play: According to Jacki
I know that the real roots of homelessness are complicated. But in cities such as San Francisco, I’d go ahead and say that the fact that the median home price is $1.35 million is a big ol’
San Francisco continues to the lead the nation in regressive housing policies justified for spurious reasons. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously rejected a 63-unit apartment
Thanks to Barry Freed for this one. Sanborn’s map of San Francisco, 1900. Note not only “Butcher Town” but the “Dead Horse Rendering Works” in the lower left.
It’s great that San Francisco is developing the nation’s first government-run diaper bank for poor families. It’s totally ridiculous that this is not a national program or that we do
Why would I put up footage of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which was a world’s fair held in San Francisco, celebrating both the rebirth of the city after the earthquake and
Almost all of our cities are built on top of prexisting waterways that now “flow” under our feet and roads. The water is still largely there but it’s subsumed in the concrete and pav