Sasha Perigo

On Saturday, March 14, Stanford University junior Daniella Caluza scrambled to pack up all of her belongings. Caluza, along with the 97 percent of Stanford undergraduates who live on campus, were informed the day before that they had to leave their campus homes.

The number of friends who’ve reached out to me this week asking me what to do if they can’t pay their rent is devastating. I’m devastated, because I don’t have a good answer for them.

The caricature of a NIMBY is someone with a screw-you-I’ve-got-mine attitude, either a wealthy, white homeowner who thinks renters lower property values or a nostalgic progressive opposed to neighborhood change.

When Dominique Walker and other homeless mothers moved into a vacant home in Oakland this November, they were standing for more than just themselves. The mothers and their supporters call themselves Moms 4 Housing.

A Mission district landlord has included a clause in a rental application that lawyers say discriminates against applicants with disabilities — likely in violation of both state and federal law.

On Tuesday, Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer introduced a resolution that establishes a timeline for creating a San Francisco public bank. The successful implementation of a public bank could be a windfall for affordable housing advocates.

We’ve all experienced exhaustion before, but the exhaustion I experience with depression is hard for me to comprehend. Today is the first day in months that I have enough energy to feel bored. You’ve probably never conceptualized boredom in terms of energy, and neither had I until recently. When I say that I have enough energy to feel bored I mean that today I had the energy to get dressed, shower, and eat, and I still have enough energy to need something else to do. That feeling is new to me.

San Francisco has a long and well-documented history as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)-friendly city. However, some LGBT San Franciscans find the city less safe than others. Andrea Horne is one of these San Franciscans. She is a former actress, jazz singer, model, and social worker, as well as a Black transgender woman who has lived in San Francisco for the past forty years.