SF News 'Below Market Rate' Housing Units In San Francisco Found to Be Above Market Rate Right Now With apartments going for bargain prices around San Francisco in what will likely be a short-term dip in the rental market, so-called below-market-rate (BMR) housing is tied to other metrics, and renters can find better deals in the open the market right now.
SF News Massive New Development Announced In Fillmore District on Site of 70s-Era Affordable Project A huge, 2,515-unit residential project — one of the largest ever to be proposed or built in San Francisco — may be on its way to the Fillmore/Western Addition, and it's being driven by the same church group that built 382 units on the same site 47 years ago.
SF News City Looks to Buy 232-Unit Lower Nob Hill SRO and Turn It Into Supportive Housing With the help of a state grant, San Francisco may purchase a large single-room-occupancy hotel building that for years has been a senior-housing complex.
Business & Tech Controversial Short-Term Rental Company Sonder Sues To Get Out Of Lease At Church and Market Sonder, the company that offers corporate-style rentals of furnished units for several months at a time and which controversially took control of a building at the intersection of Church and Market Streets last summer, is now suing to get out of its lease at the property, citing the pandemic.
SF News Notoriously Sketchy Haight Street McDonald's Fully Demolished The infamous McDonald's at Haight and Stanyan is now completely gone, as the building was razed and the site is now almost fully cleared to make way for an affordable housing development.
SF Politics Breed Wants Ballot Measure to Streamline Housing in Wake of SB-50 Defeat The mayor introduces a ballot measure effort to eliminate red tape for affordable housing developments, but the definition of “affordable” is a bit mind-boggling.
SF News A Parking Spot In South Beach Is Selling For $100K Currently, the median price for a house in the United States sits at $200,000. Half that amount, however, could secure you a conveniently located, covered parking spot in San Francisco’s South Beach neighborhood.
SF News SF Opens First Transitional Housing Project For Transgender And Gender Non-Conforming Adults Thursday's ribbon-cutting ceremony along Washington Street in Chinatown marked the grand reveal of a first for the city: A transitional housing project aimed at helping transgender and gender non-conforming San Franciscans.
SF News Moms 4 Housing May Get to Own West Oakland Home After All The real estate investment firm that owns the home on Magnolia Street in West Oakland where a group of homeless mothers and their children were squatting in recent months has caved and agreed to negotiate a sale of the property to an Oakland nonprofit.
SF News [Update] Moms 4 Housing Offered Relocation Help But They've Refused To make the transition easier, the real estate investment firm that owns the home has said it is willing to pay for the move and for the women's shelter for the next two months. The women call the offer "an insult."
SF News Academy of Art Forced to Pay $38 Million for Eliminating Affordable Housing The Academy of Art has been more of a mega-landlord than an art school, and the Board of Supervisors approved the clawing back of $37.6 million for the Academy’s illegal conversion of affordable housing stock.
SF News Kansas Based Developer Wants To Build 65 Affordable Housing Units In The Mission District, Underground Unless you've been living under a rock, it's no news that San Francisco is in the midst of a housing crunch. One proposed solution? To (ironically enough) build housing beneath the bedrock.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Hearing Draws Huge Crowd, Judge Agrees to Consider Case The moms can remain at the West Oakland house they’ve crashed for now, but a final ruling is expected in the next 24 hours as an Alameda County Superior Court judge declined to toss out their request to stay.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Asked To Leave Squatted Residence By Owner To Make Way For Youth Center In a revolving carousel of quandaries, the owner of a vacant West Oakland home that was squatted by two mothers last month wants them out — so they can use the property to accommodate disadvantaged youth.
SF News Oakland’s Sweeping Affordable Housing Plan Has Produced Zero Units in Three Years A 2016 ‘impact fee’ on market-rate housing was supposed to produce $65 million for 160 new affordable units, but so far has not produced one new affordable unit.
SF Politics Aging and Disabled Activists Gather at Mayor's Office to Protest for Housing Subsidies A group of around 100 protesters, many of them senior citizens, stormed Mayor London Breed's office on Wednesday to demand a larger city budget for housing subsidies for elderly residents.
SF News The Bay's Mare Island at the Center of Fight Over Redevelopment and Nature Conservancy Mother Nature’s reclaimed much of Mare Island since its Naval base heyday, making it a haven for native flora and fauna. But recent battles over its public access, wildfires, and in-limbo development plans threaten the Bay Area Eden’s ecological health.
SF News These Moms Are Living In A Vacant West Oakland Home To Protest 'Housing-Insecurity' It's no news that Bay Area housing is grossly overinflated – and downright unaffordable, forcing many into homelessness. And, with a slew of vacant houses sprinkled throughout the region, there's no reason why those domiciles should go uninhabited. At least, that's what these East Bay moms believe.
SF News 98-Year-Old Man Fulfills Mother's Dying Wish To Turn Her SF Property Into Affordable Housing When San Francisco artist, scientist, and activist Maria “Mitzi” Kolisch died in 1987, she was in the process of trying to turn her humble cottage property in Diamond Heights into housing for low-income adolescents who had aged out of the foster-care system.
SF News Muni's $400M Potrero Yard Refresh To Include 500 Housing Units, Half Will Be 'Affordable' In an odd two-birds-with-one-stone throw, Muni has plans to build its first-ever housing development at Potrero Yard, helping both revitalize the outmoded concrete court and (hopefully) introduce over 250 affordable housing units in the process.
Business & Tech Facebook Pledges $1 Billion For CA Housing As 45 States Join Antitrust Probe Facebook has one positive PR item to tick off today and a couple of negatives as the New York attorney general announces that 45 states and the District of Columbia and Guam have joined her antitrust probe into Facebook.
SF News Proposed Extension Of Relocation Benefits Seeks To Help 'Post-Agreement' Treasure Island Residents A massive multi-billion-dollar redevelopment of Treasure Island, which was agreed on in June of 2011, threatens to displace hundreds who call the man-made island home. However, newly proposed extensions of certain relocation benefits could help some residents sleep well at night.
SF News Habitat For Humanity Spends Just $10 To Buy Pleasant Hill Parcel, Will Build Affordable Housing The good folks at Habitat for Humanity just bought this property for a mere ten bucks, and will build seven townhouses for the low-income population.
SF Politics Feds Investigate SF's Four-Year-Old Neighborhood-Preference Program For Affordable Housing The Trump Administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has put San Francisco on notice over an affordable housing policy that the Obama Administration had tacitly supported.
SF News Mayor Breed Discusses Her $5 Million 'Rapid Re-Housing' And Eviction Prevention Budget Perhaps in an attempt to get ahead of the story, discussed over the weekend, about the pushback she's getting from the Board of Supervisors for her affordable housing-expediting City Charter amendment, Mayor London