Important investigation into failures with ICE medial care that have likely caused multiple deaths.
I'll note that these failures are common in the criminal justice system, and are just as deadly there, which is one reason why a solution is to heavily restrict the use of immigration detention.
My colleague @stjbs.bsky.social and I spent months working on this new @sfchronicle.com investigation into each of the 48 deaths in ICE custody since the start of 2025. Powerful work as well by our data viz colleague Nami Sumida and
@santiagomejia.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
A wheel-like visualization of bird feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions
It took me about three months to get here but...
Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions.
10,151 species.
#dataviz #birds #data
This is a pretty notably shift from about five years ago, when state Sen. Scott Wiener tried to get a more expansion version of this bill (SB 50) passed. That bill fell short by three votes.
CA Senate Bill 79, which would allow tenser/denser housing projects to be built near major transit hubs, squeezed through the state Senate last night, getting the exact number of votes it needed to pass. It now heads to the Assembly.
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
A meme showing a stick man in a hat labeled "editor" saying, "Are ya winning son?" On the floor is a crying stick figure next to a computer surrounded by words: "Demand?" "Supply?" "Is that a trident" "San Diego fish tacos" "the H has a hat" "187 mentions of 'elasticity' each too technical to use in the article"
As an added bonus here's a recreation of my past several days of reporting
I wrote about that housing paper that argued places where it's easier to build more housing don't (at least when accounting for change in demand). Its findings (and methods) sparked a pretty big debate among housing wonks. Here I try my best to explain: www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...
A line chart titled, "Total money raised for 2025 Oakland mayoral campaigns" and subtitled "Including donations to candidates' personal or supporter-organized groups, through March 24". An orange line labeled "Loren Taylor" increases from 0 at November 2024 to $100,000 at January 2025 to nearly $500,000 in March 2025. A teal line labeled "Barbara Lee" increases from less than $200,000 in January to nearly $700,000 in March.
New from @sfchronicle.com 's Sarah Ravani and me: The Oakland mayoral election is in just a few weeks, and more than a million bucks is flowing through the race. Here's how much the frontrunners have raised and who's supporting them.
www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...
My latest for the @sfchronicle.com
About 40% of people in SF were under the age of 35 in 2023. But just 25% of recent home buyers were in that age group.
www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...
As an aside, one of the first state housing policy stories I wrote (for the Burbank Leader) was an explainer article on SB 9. There was a *ton* of controversy over the bill at the time in SoCal, even though experts were saying even then that it wouldn't build as much as advertised.
New from me:
California Senate Bill 9 was marketed as "ending single-family zoning." But in three years, SF has received only 32 housing apps under the law. Oakland has gotten 5.
Now, State Sen. Scott Wiener is introducing legislation to bring those numbers up.
www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...