Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Seung Y. Lee, KQED News Fix/Berkeleyside Members of the Berkeley City Council, the Downtown Berkeley Association and the Berkeley Food and Housing Project gathered by the downtown BART station last Thursday to launch a donation program for the city’s homeless population. The “Positive Change” program will install up to 10 tamper-proof donation boxes around […]

By Amanda Stupi, KQED News Fix California’s new statewide water restrictions take effect on June 1. Depending on where you live, your water district could be asked to cut urban water use by as much as 36 percent compared with usage in 2013. And with maximum fines now set at $10,000 and the citation process […]

By Alex Emslie, KQED News Fix San Francisco Supervisor David Campos is calling for a moratorium of up to two years on market-rate residential construction in the Mission District, a neighborhood that has become ground zero for the city’s housing crisis. Campos represents the Mission, which his office says has lost more than 1,600 low- […]

By Daniel Hirsch, Mission Local Real estate agents and investors with plans of visiting an open house at a stately Edwardian on Folsom Street were greeted Tuesday afternoon with a somewhat unexpected scene – a motley crew of Mission activists and neighborhood characters holding signs and singing, “If you buy this house, you will have […]

By Craig Miller, KQED Science/News Fix This week local water officials and consumers around California will get the final version of new emergency drought rules ordered by Governor Jerry Brown in early April. The statewide water restrictions go into effect on June 1. Local water agencies are racing to get programs in place to cut […]

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local Lindsey Hoshaw, who lives near Treat and 24th, woke up in the early morning of March 11 to the sound of a woman screaming for help. She called 911. A recording told her to wait for a call taker. She did, for what she estimates was 30 seconds. Frustrated, Hoshaw […]

By Zaidee Stavely, KQED News Fix Oakland’s first homicide victim of 2014 was a boy named Lee Weathersby III. He was shot on New Year’s Eve and died early the next morning. Police say it appears he was not the intended target of the shooting. Lee would have turned 14 that year. His death hit […]

By Andrew Beckerman and Laura Wenus, Mission Local In several recent meetings, activists have shouted down developers over the changes in the Mission and the displacement of low-income communities of color. Census data show how profound those changes have been. Long a working class neighborhood, the Mission has seen average earnings rise steadily since 2000, […]

By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix Activists have launched a new round in their long-running campaign to restore Yosemite National Park’s Hetch Hetchy Valley to its natural condition by draining the reservoir that serves San Francisco and most of the Peninsula. In a lawsuit filed last week in Tuolumne County, the group Restore Hetch Hetchy […]

By Guy Marzorati, KQED News Fix Less than three months into implementation of an ordinance to legalize and regulate short-term rentals in San Francisco, city leaders and planners agree the law needs more work. The ordinance, which took effect Feb. 1, established a framework to register hosts and enforce limits on guest stays booked on […]