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A 27-story 400-unit market-rate housing development at 469 Stevenson, if approved, will drive the gentrification of Soma’s Sixth Street community—the last Soma low-income neighborhood left ...

Are real estate speculators going to make housing affordable? Or is Scott Wiener forcing us to displace existing vulnerable communities?

The Board of Supes is not at all happy with the director of the Department of Parks and Recreation. At Tuesday’s meeting, the board considered a normally routine item about spending from a bond act.