The stunning speculator profits in Ellis Act evictions
City report shows how much money gets made evicting tenants—and how little tenants get in relocation fees.
Best of the Bay 2025 is here!
Our 51st annual Readers' Poll celebrates everything that's Best about the Bay Area—chosen by the people who live here.
Vote NO on the Newsom recall
He was a bad mayor and is a bad governor—but the alternatives are way, way worse and the national implications are scary.
Saving San Francisco’s Heart: A Bay Guardian book
San Francisco is under attack — by developers, greedy speculators and others who see this city as a place from which to extract money, even at the cost of destroying communities.
Jon Golinger, who has been running progressive campaigns in this city for more than 15 years, has put together a historical report on some of the flashpoints in the...
ENDORSEMENTS for the February 2022 Special Election
Campos for Assembly. No on the School Board recalls. Our recommendations for the Feb. 15 special election
ENDORSEMENT: Let’s change the direction of the state Democratic Party
You can vote for progressive candidates to set policy at the state party level. Here are our choices
VOTE Jan 8 to reform the Democratic Party!
The Democratic Party controls California – and yet, this deep-blue state still suffers under Prop 13, still allows landlords to control the political agenda (at the cost of thousands of evictions and a homeless epidemic), and is going to struggle to create an effective response to Donald Trump.
That’s because the California Democratic Party is still a corporate-run operation, dominated...
EDITORIAL: Vote for Kim and Leno (or Leno and Kim) to save San Francisco
The early indications are that turnout in the June 5 election will be low. According to Joe Eskenazi, who has a daily text-message service, as of May 27, 43,000 ballots have been returned; at that point in June 2016, 63,500 ballots had been turned in.
So every single vote is going to matter. You can vote this weekend at City...
Guardian Archives Project phase 1 launched!
We're happy to announce that the first phase of our project to recover and make available all 50 years of the Bay Guardian has launched!
We've rebuilt all print articles and blog entries 2006-2014 in an online searchable database. The database is being hosted by our sister site, 48 Hills. SEARCH THE ARCHIVE HERE!
Soon we'll be adding pictures to the...
ENDORSEMENTS 2018
CLICK HERE FOR OUR CLEAN SLATE VOTER GUIDE TO TAKE TO THE POLLS.
The two most important things on the November ballot are state Proposition 10 and San Francisco Proposition C. Both would address the housing crisis; both are desperately needed.
Prop. 10 would overturn one of the worst examples of a bad trend in California: The state Legislature likes to...