“My biggest fear is seeing her one morning and not knowing if she’ll come back.” This fear and daily uncertainty is a sentiment shared by the 5.8 million households in the United States that are home to at least one undocumented immigrant, amidst the second term of President Donald Trump. As of 2023, California had […]
Author: Sydney Grundland Lanuza
How Opposition to Affordable Housing Shapes San Francisco’s Wealth Divide
Pacific Heights and the Tenderloin are two neighborhoods in San Francisco that practically touch, separated by mere blocks. Yet, Pacific Heights is regarded by anyone familiar with San Francisco as an affluent and exclusive enclave in the city, an assumption supported by the median household income of $190,518. Right next door sits the Tenderloin, a […]
Inside San Quentin: The Transformative Power of Education and Rehabilitation
This summer, I worked at a small non-profit organization called Humans of San Quentin, whose primary aim is to humanize incarcerated people through personal narratives and other creative contributions. I not only read about the lives and experiences of countless people in prison, but also talked to them on the phone and asked questions that […]
Do Recalls Have a Place in CA Politics? Joel Engardio and the Great Highway
Proposition K was a ballot measure introduced in San Francisco’s fall 2024 general election which proposed the permanent closure of a portion of the Great Highway to motor vehicles. The measure was highly contested. It allowed the city to convert the Great Highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard into a public recreation space, which […]
The A’s Leave Oakland Ending an Important Era
Robert Baker tells Oakland voices, “When I think about Oakland, I think about community pride and activism. I see people who really care and are protective of Oakland and its culture and reputation.” There was a period of Oakland’s history where this valuable culture could be observed in the Raiders jerseys, Warriors hats, and Oakland […]
Propositions E and F in San Francisco: Hurtful or Helpful?
How can a city regarded as one of the most liberal cities in America vote in favor of two conservative, and likely consequential, propositions? This question encompassed the minds of overwhelmingly liberal San Franciscans in the weeks following March’s primary election. Both San Francisco Proposition E and F dealt with how San Francisco handles two […]
A Legacy of Separation: Connecting San Francisco’s History of Redlining to the Educational Disparities in SFUSD
The city of San Francisco, seated at the center of innovation and wealth, has a long history of trying to reverse the effects of neighborhood segregation within the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). In the 1970s, their first desegregation attempt was enacted through the Horseshoe Plan and Operation Integrate, dividing SF into zones to […]