Business & Tech SF Revokes Approval for $700-a-Month Sleeping Pod Complex, Ironically, Because It Doesn’t Have Affordable Housing That embattled $700-a-month sleeping pod complex has lost its City Hall approval, because the SF Planning Department says it doesn't comply with the city’s affordable housing rules, among other permit violations.
SF News After Getting City Approvals, Developer of Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Complex Plans Much Larger Version A year after a sleeping-pod dormitory on San Francisco's Mint Plaza gained media attention and, subsequently, negative attention from the city's building inspectors, the complex has received official city approval.
SF News Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Complex Dinged With Violations After City Inspection A resident of one of the latest iterations of the pod-style sleeping arrangements we saw during the most recent SF tech boom boasted about the cheapness of his rent on social media, leading to TV media coverage and, now, a city inspection.
SF News Apartment Sadness: 'Founders' Are Moving to SF and Living In Sleeping Pods Again Something must be shifting with the local economy, and as San Francisco continues to be a hotbed of artificial intelligence innovation, the people moving here for a piece of that gold rush are finding what many of us found coming here in years past: really high rents.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Bad Studios and Bunk Beds Are Back Rents are climbing back up in San Francisco and all the landlords with stuff they probably couldn't rent to anyone the last couple years are creeping back onto Craigslist, hoping to find new takers.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 5-Bedroom With One Full Bath Seeks $10K Per Month If you're looking to live in Buena Vista/Ashbury Heights with four to eight of your closest friends, all of whom are gainfully employed, have I got a steal for you!
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: New Half-Million-Dollar Studios Have Beds That Drop From Ceilings Well, the owners and marketers of the new Serif condos on mid-Market have come up with a novel solution for the smallness of their studio units: optional furniture add-ons that include mechanical beds that rise up and stow themselves away on the ceiling.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Teeny Tiny Studio With Toilet-Shower For $2300/Mo The holy grail of SF apartment living remains being able to live by oneself without breaking the bank, and a newly listed studio in Lower Nob Hill will let you do just that, for the not-quite bargain price of $2295 per month.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Shower Where You Sleep Today's edition of Apartment Sadness takes us out to the Portola District, where an in-law unit's design apparently didn't include a bath or shower, until now.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Faux Wood-Paneled Wonder In The Outer Sunset This week's edition of Apartment Sadness takes us out to the Sunset, where there's a partially furnished, partially carpeted one-bedroom fit for many memorable moments of quiet desperation and dread.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 100-Square-Foot Sunnyvale In-Law Is A Steal, And A Squeeze Everyone's favorite schadenfreude-heavy real estate column is back! And this one's a real humdinger in the South Bay.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: An In-Law Studio For $1800 (Plus Mandatory Full-Time Nanny Position) Want to live in Saint Francis Wood in someone's 600-square-foot in-law studio for a relatively reasonable rent that comes with a major catch? Well, someone over there is seeking an unheard-of deal on
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Half-Constructed Loft In Outer Sunset, $1600/Mo If you're looking for an apartment deal in San Francisco, especially out in the Avenues, you are likely to stumble across more than one half-baked in-law unit or half-finished basement that might be
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Outer Richmond Carpeted Gem, $2800/Mo Though the housing market has been tempered by a combination of slower job growth, population out-migration and increased supply, that doesn't really mean that prices have come down. It does mean that there
Arts & Entertainment House Sadness: Dolores Heights Teardown With No Interior Photos Hits Market For $7 Million A "rare opportunity" for the "right buyer" has just just hit the market in one of the hottest neighborhoods in town, but you won't get to look inside at least not via any
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Godawful Basement In-Law, $1650 There's a bargain just hitting the market over in Ingleside! This minimally lit, carpeted gem is being marketed as a "huge" and "private" "in-law" "studio," though it appears just to be someone's recently
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Sorriest Studio In All Of Presidio Heights The rental market hasn't been quite as nutty in recent months as it was when I launched this column, and many of the tips we've received from loyal readers have either been duds
SF News Coder Details Life Inside 13-Person Possibly Illegal Airbnb Located In Luxury Mission Bay Tower The story of the starry-eyed youngster moving to San Francisco and into an over-priced community living space as he or she attempts to learn to code and land a top-paying job is now
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A $1000/Mo Backyard Toolshed In Oakland Hey everybody, Apartment Sadness returns today after a brief hiatus to show you this gem of a property in someone's backyard in North Oakland. It's a trick we've seen before, sadly a presumably
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Brosef Wants New Bro To Share Bro Pad I'd like to think this is a joke, one of the many fake ads that people post to Craigslist just to amuse themselves and others. But, sadly, I do believe it's real. I've
SF News Apartment Sadness: NY-Based Co-Living Startup 'Common' Arrives In SF With $2,600 SoMa Dorm Rooms Common, a "co-living" startup based in New York that acts as a property management company, was recently profiled in a New Yorker article that nicely contextualized it in the history of city dorm-like
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Anyone Need An $8000 Four-Bedroom (That's Not Really A Four-Bedroom)? This week, Apartment Sadness takes you to tony Pacific Heights, where apparently the address alone should be enough for you to want to share a four-bedroom, two-bath flat with three to seven of
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Millennial Hippie Commune Of Your Worst Nightmares Fire dancing! Communal dinners! People cutting each others' hair and frolicking together on the beach! Chateau Ubuntu has it all. This 38-person (!), 10-bedroom house near Alamo Square rents spots for $650 to $1,
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: $2400 For Crap House In El Cerrito Yay! Even parts of the East Bay that can't even be called hip are trying to charge absurd prices for terrible apartments. A tipster called our attention to an ad, since deleted, for
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 'Big City Living On Outer City Dime' Now Means $2,700 Studios In The Bayview SFist's Caleb Pershan is pinch-hitting on the Apartment Sadness column this week. "Big Style, Little Benjamins" is one of several highly suspect claims made on the swanky website for the "new" (also not
