In a letter from state officials, the Board of Supervisors was warned to pass a key housing reform bill or risk violating California law. It's the latest move to tighten the screws on local policymakers as the city faces the longest housing timelines in the state. sfstandard.com/2023/10/27/s...
UC Downtown San Francisco in the works? https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/18/san-francisco-mayor-asks-university-of-california-to-explore-downtown-campus/
Following other major providers, Farmers Insurance appears to be sharply limiting business in California and declining to cover older homes. By @matthewkupfer.bsky.socialhttps://sfstandard.com/business/farmers-insurance-state-farm-allstate-californ/
So what do people want to talk about on this app? And how long before it becomes a toxic cesspit of perverse engagement incentives?
great story about an oligarch buying up a San Francisco church that was going to become a homeless shelter in an attempt to build a "Startup Temple" that would be a "Church of Hacktivism" https://sfstandard.com/business/how-a-mega-rich-oligarch-linked-to-putin-derailed-a-bay-area-homeless-shelter/
It was supposed to be a center for unhoused San Franciscans. Then a company swooped in with money from one of Russia's richest men.