Here's how S.F.'s congressional candidates would build housing

Mission Local is an established local newsroom with a clear byline and a substantial, locally focused report. The piece is an original interview-based Q&A, though the supplied information does not establish its corrections record.

• ▸Source type — Local-news outlet reporting on a major local policy issue and congressional race.
• ▸Transparency — The reporting identifies its interview format and presents candidates' answers directly.
• ▸Author attribution — The article names Io Yeh Gilman as its author.
• ▸Editorial standards — The article provides extensive attributed answers, but the available information does not establish its corrections practice.

The article gives all three candidates extensive, directly attributed answers across a wide range of housing questions, with explanatory context for some technical terms. Its comparison is useful and reasonably balanced, though it relies mainly on the candidates' own claims and offers limited independent verification or outside expert perspectives.

The candidates receive substantial space to answer the same questions, and the article makes their disagreements clear. It relies primarily on the candidates rather than adding independent perspectives or outside analysis.

• ▸Source diversity — All three candidates are quoted at length, but outside experts and affected residents are not presented as sources.
• ▸Counterarguments presented — The candidates' contrasting views on market-rate housing, regulation and upzoning are laid out.
• ▸Opinion vs reporting — The piece is presented as interview reporting rather than an argument for one candidate's approach.
• ▸Loaded language — The article's own narration is generally restrained.

The article presents the candidates' competing housing positions in a largely descriptive Q&A, without adopting a clear ideological frame or using loaded language.

• ▸Language tone — Mostly neutral language and direct quotations.
• ▸Source selection — The three candidates receive extensive space to explain their own positions.
• ▸Framing — The article compares policy differences without endorsing a particular approach.