Randy Shaw
Author and Editor at BeyondChron
Editor Beyond Chron, Exec Dir Tenderloin Housing Clinic, author, Generation Priced Out, The Activist Handbook, The Tenderloin, Beyond the Fields + more.
Articles
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1 week ago |
beyondchron.org | Randy Shaw
Four of San Francisco’s longtime economic linchpins— Fisherman’s Wharf, Union Square, Downtown and the San Francisco Centre—no longer drive city revenue. These spaces are outdated. They require a radical makeover. The city should help make this happen. Union Square and Fisherman’s Wharf offer a 1950’s and 60’s environment in a 2025 world. Downtown office workers are not coming back. The San Francisco Centre cannot return as a successful shopping center. A radical remaking of these areas is required.
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2 weeks ago |
beyondchron.org | Randy Shaw
Refugees Build a Better TenderloinVien Do and Thai Cheng are Southeast Asian refugees who arrived in the Tenderloin in 1980 and 1981 respectively. Both have worked for the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, publisher of Beyond Chron, for over twenty years. Their stories embody the larger narrative of the positive impact of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees on the Tenderloin and San Francisco. Vien DoVien Do left Vietnam in 1978. He was 17 years old. His uncle had to leave the country; he took Vien with him.
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2 weeks ago |
beyondchron.org | Randy Shaw
Will City Revive Little Saigon? The fall of Saigon brought thousands of Southeast Asian refugees to San Francisco’s Tenderloin. They rejuvenated the neighborhood. But the prior mayor’s policies has jeopardized this legacy. Saigon fell in April 1975. I heard cars honking and shouting from megaphones from my Berkeley dorm room. It was a celebration more associated with a winning sports team than the military defeat of the United States. We opened the Tenderloin Housing Clinic (THC) in February 1980.
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3 weeks ago |
beyondchron.org | Randy Shaw
The music short “Chappell Roan – ‘Casual’” happens to be a story-based music video. Director Hadley Hillel sets the short tale in a small seaside town whose beach is terrorized by attacks from a siren (MIka Lesha). Roan (playing herself) accidentally encounters this sea creature and finds a mutual physical attraction.
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3 weeks ago |
beyondchron.org | Randy Shaw
Housing Economics Must ChangeSeven years before Abundance swept the nation I released a book arguing that the housing policies of progressive, “blue” cities failed to provide affordability for the working and middle-class (See Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, UC Press). Many cities and states have since pursued abundance by eliminating zoning restrictions and other procedural barriers. But new housing production has often not followed. Why?
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