2003

Building Up Allows Affordable Housing

Builder Joe Cassidy applauds the Board of Supervisors’ decision to allow developers to exceed height and density restrictions and prepares for his estimated $9 million construction of what will become THC’s Galvin Apartments. 

2003

Bureaucracy Burns SRO Tenants 

Months after a law went into effect requiring residential hotels to install sprinkler systems, less than a quarter have been brought up to code and a vast majority of the projects remain bogged down by city bureaucracy.

2004

Plumbers Lose Their Wrenches

The City looks to take legal action against the plumbers and steamfitters union, after the powerful organization repeatedly refused to install sprinklers in a residential hotel it owns.

 

2004

They’re Going Postal

Residential hotel residents join together with hotel managers to advocate for private and secure mail delivery.