Architecture for Humanity - SF
Saturday, May 22, 2004
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Monday 05.24 - Cameron Sinclair announces 'Siyathemba' (AFH 2004 Design Competition)
AIDS Walk SF _ Global Pandemic Forum - Foreign Cinema 6PM
Tuesday 05.25 - AFH Party 'for no reason'!
Marriott Hotel on 4th St. 8PM
Thursday 05.27 - The Green Party Housing and Land Use Seminar Series Presents:
Landlords, Tenants and Rent Control: Is Consensus Ever Possible?
Presentations by:
Janan New, Executive Director, San Francisco Apartment Association
Ted Gullicksen, Office Manager, San Francisco Tenants Union
New College of California 777 Valencia St. 7 - 9 PM
Wednesday/Thursday 05.26 - 05.27 Hearings next week on Homelessness
A two-day series of public hearings to air comments and ideas about the city's homelessness policies will be held Wednesday and Thursday in City Hall before the 10-Year Plan Council. The 33-member council, headed by former Supervisor Angela Alioto, was created to draft a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness in San Francisco.
The hearings will be held in the Board of Supervisors Legislative Chamber, Room 250, from noon to 7 p.m. both days. For more information, call council facilitator Reg Smith at (415) 554-4339.
DESIGN:
Discarded yarn, beaver sticks, hay bales become building blocks
- Sam Mockbee exhibit in Washington, later to come to SF
Washington Post reviews FUTURESHACK
A house divided: Architect's pre-fab plan to take the sting out of housing market
Big Dig and New Housing
New Village is the national journal of ADPSR.
Architecture as Ministry - Detroit Community Design Center | Terrence Curry
Resources for Community Designers, Architects and Planners | John Cary Jr.
Anti-War vacation house
Sam Davis in CC Times
Preserving Rehab Incentive
The Shipyard - Art Space in Container Ghetto, Oakland
HOMELESS NEWS:
Vancouver Proposes a Tent City
Recent Article on Jim Reid
Newsom's Attempt at Outreach
Homeless like new 24-hour shelter, Bed shortage seems to be the only glitch
15 properties surplus deal
SF NEWS:
Much reading on the Housing Bond Measure. Ex, beyondchron, beyondchron
Housing Element Passes Ex, Ex
Section 8 getting hacked CSM, Ex
Initiative turns seniors into landlords
10 by 10 living in the Mission
Greenest building in Berk
Bike Hotel at Embarcadero
Supervisors try to hammer out a new policy for peddlers.
Urban garden?
