Upon graduation from Hastings, Randy was awarded a $12,000 grant from the Berkeley Law Foundation,[3] becoming THC's first full-time staff attorney and executive director.
The story was front-page news for a week, ultimately resulting in the emergency enactment of tough new heat and hot water laws, which he helped author.
Overcharging rent to Cambodian immigrant tenants in the Tenderloin led media to investigating the West German-based real estate mogul.
[8] In 1988, Shaw proposed San Francisco to adopt a modified payments program (MPP), enabling homeless single adults receiving welfare to obtain permanent housing.
[15] [16] Several points he emphasizes in his book are:[17] "In The Tenderloin, Randy Shaw offers an incisive history of one of the nation’s most underappreciated neighborhoods.
From its wild swings through vice and repression, surprising presence at the heart of the domestic Cold War, unique role as the locale where today’s transgender movement began out of a strange mix of federal antipoverty programs and faith-based political organizing, and as the landing pad for refugees from U.S. wars in Southeast Asia, San Francisco’s Tenderloin is an historic neighborhood whose stories unfold at an astonishing pace.
Medea Benjamin, political activist and co-director of Global Exchange, said of the book, "Randy Shaw provides the definitive account of the historic national campaign to reform Nike's labor practices.
The book describes the tactics and strategies of immigrant rights, marriage equality, and other movements that grew in strength in the 21st century.