Filmmaker Fredrik Gertten and UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Leilani Farha discuss Gertten's documentary "Push," which looks into the practices and impacts of investment firm ownership of housing around the world.

In the Mission District, officials and neighborhood leaders recently announced that a portion of the Mission Language and Vocational School's building, which the school had previously rented and sold to make ends meet, has been bought back by MLVS and neighborhood allies. We look into the history of the school, the dispute, and the sale.

Uzuri Pease-Greene is the Executive Director of C.A.R.E., Community Awareness Resources Entity, which helps promote safety for public housing residents. She is also a former candidate for District 10 supervisor who has experienced homelessness and addiction. In her many roles, she works as an activist and a spokesperson for the under-served. We talked about getting out of homelessness, running for office, and creating stress-free environments in public housing.

The nation is losing newspapers. Local journalists are rallying for better pay from hedge-fund controlled media companies. And some papers are going not-for-profit. Professor Dan Kennedy explains how the funding model of a newspaper can change its incentives and its ability to sustain good reporting.

Journalists for three Bay Area papers are in contract negotiations and organized a rally on Tuesday, Nov. 19 to call attention to the practices of an company that owns newspapers around the country, including several Bay Area papers. It's a New York-based hedge fund that has a reputation for taking over papers and gutting them to increase profits.

For every one older adult, there were once five people under the age of 15. Now the ratio is almost one to one. In response to this demographic shift, Governor Gavin Newsom has called for a master plan on aging to ensure elders have the care and support they need to age with dignity. Jeannee Parker Martin, CEO of Leading Age California, has long pushed for such a plan, and shares some insight into what its priorities could be.

Two of the producers of the audio series "Uncuffed," from Solano and San Quentin state prisons, share how they became journalists, what it's like to make radio inside prison walls, and how the series offers incarcerated men an opportunity to express themselves.

Now that city leaders have agreed on a compromise policy to revamp San Francisco's mental health system, we talk with Mark Salazar, executive director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco, about what services are available today, and what comes next.

Now that definitive results are in, we recap the results of the local election with independent reporter Nuala Sawyer Bishari