What Does London Lack That SF Has in Abundance? Misery on the Streets
In talking to friends and colleagues who’ve done their own recent traveling, it’s clear to columnist Heather Knight that many cities around the world and the U.S. maintain a better quality of life for...
11 Juli 201918min
Breaking Down the Budget
How does a city with a $12 billion budget still have so many problems? City Hall reporters Dominic Fracassa and Trisha Thadani break down how the $12 billion budget isn't actually as much as it seems....
2 Juli 201914min
The Fight Over the Embarcadero Navigation Center
Everyone agrees San Francisco must address its homelessness problem, but the fierce debate over the Embarcadero navigation center highlights how hard that is to do. Trisha Thadani and Dominic Fracassa...
27 Juni 201917min
Poverty and Financial Justice in San Francisco
For the past two years, San Francisco's Financial Justice Project has been working to eliminate government fees and fines that are particularly painful, and in some cases, ruinous, to the city's poore...
24 Juni 201934min
Making Sense of the Affordable Housing Mess
The mayor and a few members of the Board of Supervisors are battling over the best way to build more affordable and teacher housing. Both sides have proposals for the November ballot. We try to untang...
21 Juni 201918min
Taxing Wealthy Companies to Solve SF's Problems
Should San Francisco raise taxes on prosperous companies to help pay for the city's most gripping problems? Between a tax on IPO's, Uber and Lyft and exorbitantly paid CEO's voters will have plenty of...
18 Juni 201916min
Finding the Tipping Point on Homelessness
Daniel Lurie is the CEO and founder of Tipping Point, an anti-poverty nonprofit in San Francisco. He tells Heather Knight that the solution to homelessness is homes, but also that we can all help the ...
31 Maj 201936min
Total SF Live! with Amanda Guest, Emily Silverman, Tara Ramroop and Eugenia Chien
A crossover episode of The Big Event and San Francisco City Insider podcasts, recorded live on May 16, 2019, at the Betabrand Podcast Theater in the Mission District. San Francisco Chronicle pop cultu...
27 Maj 20191h 12min
