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Articles by Nato Green
Progressives and many YIMBYs support rent control, eviction protections and Airbnb regulations, but they have a huge philosophical disagreement about the causes of the housing crisis. (Mike Koozmin/2014 S.F. Examiner)
#NotAllYIMBYs
By BY Nato Green

Since Sonja Trauss appeared a couple of years ago with $10,000 in startup cash from SF Moderates and an unnamed…

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Sen. Bernie Sanders moved the single-payer health care discussion to the mainstream, and the enthusiasm is spreading. (Courtesy Michael F. Hiatt/Shutterstock)
A Funkadelic analysis of single-payer
By BY Nato Green

It’s single-payer o’clock in California. We are, in the words of Funkadelic, “standing at the verge of getting it on.”…

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Queer Nation’s iconic neon stickers. (Courtesy GLBT Historical Society)
Pride 1991, a parable
By BY Nato Green

There is a scene in the movie “Milk” that’s set at the gay pride parade in 1978. That parade is…

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A housing strategy that relies on new construction without eviction protections is the policy equivalent of running uphill in an avalanche. (Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)
A big week for tenants’ rights
By BY Nato Green

Last month, I argued that affordability and displacement are related but distinct problems, like heat and humidity. As if manifested…

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Affordability and displacement are two crises, but only one requires the creation of more homes.  (Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)
The old affordability-displacement switcheroo
By BY Nato Green

The Board of Supervisors reached a rare consensus on housing, resolving both the affordable housing requirements of Proposition C and…

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Though CNN stated, “Health care win could be shot in arm Trump, GOP need,” those who stand to lose health care are not feeling any relief. (Courtesy Photo)
Death panels for everyone
By BY Nato Green

The vote by the Republican House to repeal the Affordable Care Act was met with mewling horse race coverage by…

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Mayor Ed Lee, left, speaks during his inauguration at San Francisco City Hall on Jan. 8, 2012. Lee defeated a field of 16 candidates after 12 rounds of ranked-choice voting, which comes out to 3,360 different permutations of possible vote-rankings. (Mike Koozmin/2012 S.F. Examiner)
Ranked-choice voting a barrier to participation
By BY Nato Green

Here’s a possibly controversial Nato reveal. No, not that I love Disneyland — even though it’s not on-brand for me…

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San Francisco should treat everyone equally under the law or admit that its intent is selective enforcement to harass homeless people, rather than a sincere concern about dogs, litter or booze. (Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)
What if homeless people trashed Dolores Park?
By BY Nato Green

Dolores Park was trashed by revelers on a recent Saturday. It looked like the rubble of Earth in “Wall-E.” Recreation…

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“We, landlords, have too many rights and we demand that politicians take some of them away, for the greater good.” (Courtesy photo)
Landlords demand fewer rights
By BY Nato Green

Recently, while in Los Angeles to build my comedy brand, I had a free afternoon for one of my for-real,…

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The progressive ideas that are today derided by business lobbyists and moderate politicos are, in fact, time travelers from the future. (Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)
The Progressive Capacity Problem
By BY Nato Green

What follows is the latest installment in “San Francisco Progressives Are (Lovely But) Often Foolish, An Infinity-Part Series” … San…

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(Courtesy photo)
Letting the terrorists win
By BY Nato Green

In my last column, I admonished Sacramento Democrats for failing to: introduce a single-payer health care system, repeal Costa-Hawkins and…

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