Taking a moment to reflect on what I was doing during my last ten birthdays, and a novel request for helping me celebrate my 30th rotation around the sun. — One week from today I will turn 30. I don’t exactly know what to expect, or how to feel. In this moment, it’s hard to find the time to step back and think about where you’ve been, what mistakes you’ve made along the way, and where you’re going next. I…

Today there is an ordinance up at the Board of Supervisors that would make an appreciable difference in the approval and construction of badly needed 100% below-market-rate housing. Yet, this proposal is not getting nearly the attention it deserves. Low-income affordable housing is very hard to finance and build. Non-profit…

Tonight, while I was attending a community meeting hosted by the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to remove acting Mayor London Breed and replace her with Interim Mayor Mark Farrell. Shortly thereafter, I made up my mind about who I would…

If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter you know I’ve made no secret about the fact I’m supporting Marjan Philhour for Richmond District Supervisor. Over the past year and a half as I volunteered for her and got to better learn how she would approach problems in my neighborhood…

It’s fitting that a podcast that made me cry brought me to finally begin using Medium to blog my thoughts, since I don’t think I could harass my Facebook friends with this long of a post any further. George Wallace circa 1963 would be proud if he could see what we have wrought in this country. Over the last week I’ve been thinking for a long while about…