SF Politics Your November Ballot’s Prop 33 Rent Control Measure Could Repeal Costa-Hawkins Statewide California rent control advocates could score one of their biggest wins ever this November 5 if they pass Prop 33, which would legalize rent control across the state, and effectively repeal the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Act.
SF News SF Families Who Flee To The Suburbs Save $12K/Year, Report Claims San Francisco parents may not be surprised to learn that they're paying more than their suburban counterparts, but a new report courtesy of Care.com and Zillow, childcare and real estate websites, respectively,
SF News Infamous Bernal Heights Landlord Who Quadrupled Tenant's Rent Now Must Pay Her $400,000 In March of 2015, Debra Follingstad's Facebook post went viral, a story that served as a "sign of the times" anecdote about the state of San Francisco eviction scares and housing horrors. In
SF News Mission District 'Hacker House' Struggles As Even Techies Can't Afford The Rent The story of the long-time resident getting priced out of the Mission District is so common as to be cliché, but the latest twist on the tale proves that even the tech set
SF News SF Man Hit With Massive Rent Increase Following Loss Of His Partner To Suicide These days it seems like each week brings with it another tragic story of someone being forced out of the apartment they call home, and today is no different. The Chronicle reports on
SF News North Beach Tenant Facing Eviction After Rent Increase From $1,800 To $8,000 With rent increases and evictions all too commonplace in the Bay Area, it's now the most extreme examples — last year's massive rent hike on a Bernal Heights apartment, to name just one — that
SF News Report: San Francisco Rents To Skyrocket 10.5% By Year's End Despite word just last month that rents for one-bedrooms were basically flat, a new report from rental site RentCafe suggests things are about to take a turn for the (even more) pricey. The
SF News Are Tech Workers Starting To Flee SF For Jobs In Cheaper Towns? The Bay Area costing what it does, and technology being a slightly more transplantable line of work than, say, farming or mining, a variety of pundits are once again wondering whether the Bay
SF News Report: Ellis Act Filings Up 36% As Evictions Hit Six-Year High Evictions are up for the sixth year in a row according to a recently released report from the San Francisco Rent Board. At 2,134, the total number filed between March 1, 2015
SF News One-Bedroom Rents Basically Flat Since Last Year, According To New Map What a fun map! Last June, real estate website startup Zumper put median one-bedroom rents in San Francisco at $3,500, which was up from $3,200 in 2014. Now they're at $3,
SF News Major Landlords Now Want A Piece Of Their Tenants' Airbnb Action Three of the largest landlords in the US, Equity Residential, AvalonBay Communities Inc., and Camden Property Trust, have discussed the possibility of formally allowing their tenants to market rooms through Airbnb — if they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Roosevelt Tamale Parlor Set To Close This Sunday After 93 Years On 24th Street Photo via Instagram. After nearly a century years in business, it seems time is finally up for Roosevelt Tamale Parlor. An announcement posted to the exterior of the restaurant claimed that the one-two
Arts & Entertainment How Would You Respond To This Odd Parking Request? A photo posted by ~ Rico Highroller (@ricohighroller) on Nov 20, 2015 at 5:36pm PST We all hold certain San Francisco truths to be self-evident: Rent in SF is expensive, and street parking
SF News Yes, There Is A 3-Bedroom In San Francisco Listing for $30k A Month San Francisco's crazy rental market got you down? Need a little lift? A little pep? Something light-heartened to raise your spirits? Well, you've come to the wrong place. With that being said, we
SF News Morgan Stanley: Rents Wouldn't Drop 'Even If Current Bay Area Job Growth Forecasts Were Cut In Half' "[It] will take more than a mild slowdown in tech activity to break down favorable supply demand fundamentals in the Bay Area," wrote Morgan Stanley analyst Vance Edelson in a note to clients
SF News Report: Flood Of Venture Capital Funding Is To Blame For High Rents San Francisco rent is sky-high. San Francisco also receives gobs of the nation's share of venture capital dollars. Coincidence? Zumper, itself a venture-backed real estate website aimed at apartment seekers and renters, thinks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brunch Spot Boogaloo's Is Closing Their Doors Because Of 'Whacked Out' Rent Everybody's favorite place to stand in line for hours to get brunch might soon be going out of business. Boogaloo's, known not just for the lines but also their famous vegetarian herb cream
SF News Cautionary Graffiti Spray-Painted Onto Jaw-Droppingly Expensive Duboce Park Apartment Building The Lower Haight building with the $6,500 1-bedroom already got tagged. 🚫💲 “Don’t Waste Your $” A photo posted by Andrew Dalton (@dolfapedia) on Aug 13, 2015 at 11:04pm PDT On Wednesday,
SF News Study: Airbnb 'Commercial Hosts' Definitely Keeping Long-Term Rental Units Off the Market A lot gets said about Airbnb in relation to average moms and pops and everygal/guys who are renting rooms to tourists for a little extra cash, or renting their apartments while they're
SF News [Update] Landlord Uses Loophole In Rent Control Law To Raise Woman's Rent To $8900 Via a Facebook post over the weekend that's been going locally viral, several tipsters have been alerting SFist to a story that is likely to frighten anyone who's been enjoying the protection of
SF News Oakland Rents Are The Second-Fastest Growing In America The price tag on those greener pastures east of San Francisco has been getting a serious markup. According to a report from local real estate site Trulia, rents in Oakland have increased 12.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 280-Square-Foot Sunset 1-Bedroom For $1280, Or Is It a Studio? As of today, I'm moving our Apartment Sadness column out of the News category and into Arts & Entertainment, because I'm pretty sure these posts are just being enjoyed for a dose of
SF News Apartment Sadness: 225-Square Foot Mini-Studio With Bunk Bed Goes For $1750/Mo Remember the sad Noe Valley "mini-studio" from three weeks ago that was going for $1425/month? Well, it gets worse. Over near Duboce Park, as Curbed shows us, you could have nine more
SF News New Map Shows How Expensive It Is To Rent An Apartment Near BART Click to enlarge It's no longer true that if you get priced out of San Francisco you can just move east as we learned last week, rents in Oakland are actually shooting up
SF News Studios In Huge New Complex Between Oak And Fell Will Start At $3,135 Not surprisingly, the enormous, five-story, 182-unit apartment complex that's under construction on the block that was formerly taken up by the Central Freeway on- and off-ramps, between Oak and Fell and Octavia and
