SF News Tacolicious, Zeitgeist, Airbnb Offices Top 2015 Lyft Destinations As the year draws to a close, the final days of December traditionally provide a time for us to look back and reflect on choices made (or not made) and to dream about
SF News Day Around The Bay: You Can Still Rent Brian Chesky's Couch For $50 [People Magazine] is surprised to learn what we've known for quite some time: You can still rent Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's couch on Rausch Street for $50. (Up from $40 as of last
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 News City Cracks Down On Airbnb/VRBO Law Violators, Issues $400,000 In Penalties Though many critics have called the "Airbnb law" that the SF Board of Supervisors passed last year unenforceable, enforcement appears to be ramping up, especially after this past election in which short-term rentals
SF News Study Finds 'Widespread Discrimination' On Airbnb Three researchers at Harvard Business School published a study Wednesday documenting "widespread discrimination against African-American guests" on the short-term rental platform Airbnb. The researchers found that individuals with "distinctively African-American names" are less
SF News Jane Kim Looks To Increase Taxes On Short-Term Rentals, Hotels Supervisor Jane Kim today announced two future ballot measures that aim to increase both the hotel tax and taxes on certain real estate transfers. The hotel tax measure, which would be voted on
SF News Airbnb Vows To Work Within Local Laws Worldwide; But Do They Have A Liability Problem? Airbnb, the short-term rental platform that's become a bit of a bête noire lately, particularly for San Francisco progressives and housing activists, has just published a Community Compact and pledged to play nice
SF News 'Yes On F' Supporters (And Brass Band) Protest Loudly In Airbnb HQ Lobby A small village of house-shaped signs pillorying Airbnb's recent ad campaign blunder spun like a massive mobile in the atrium of 888 Brannan, Airbnb headquarters, this afternoon. "Evictions. Love, Airbnb," and "Homelessness. Love,
SF News [Update] How An Anonymous Airbnb Host Once Sought Six Figures By Illegally Re-Renting Six Apartments "With trading, you look for arbitrage opportunities, where you have an opportunity to buy things for cheaper and sell them for more," a San Francisco Airbnb host anonymously confided in his guest, an
SF News Humorist Proposes Putting SF's Homeless In Vacant Vacation Rentals In an essay titled Shall We House The Homeless in Vacation Rentals?, a resident of San Francisco has suggested that the city's vacation rental companies might be a great resource in the fight
SF News Airbnb Is Now Selling 'Handcrafted' Tours Of The Mission Airbnb is launching a new service that seeks to expand their services beyond vacation rentals. The $25-billion dollar company this past weekend sent beta invitations to select users announcing their upcoming "Journeys" feature,
SF News Airbnb Frantically Doing Damage Control After Ad Campaign Blunder Airbnb is in full damage control mode today, after a bizarrely passive aggressive ad campaign launched this week across San Francisco and drew instant and universal condemnation. The company has moved quickly to
SF News Passive Aggressive Airbnb Ad Campaign Is Real, And They're Already Taking It Down And Apologizing Chill billboard, @airbnb pic.twitter.com/4QuRJSaG0N— ｊｄｅｎ (@jden415) October 22, 2015 As a couple of images circulated late Wednesday, like this one, of ads in San Francisco purporting to be for Airbnb
SF News Day Around The Bay: Is This An Actual Airbnb Ad? The above ad: Is it real? It's a touch passive aggressive, no? [Facebook] On clever Vine-r sums up Back to the Future Day. [museummammy/Twitter] The Mariposa on/off ramps were closed and
SF News Uber, Airbnb Execs Sued By Live-In Domestic Worker For Years Of Sexual Harassment, Wage Theft Today in San Francisco Superior Court, Julieta Yang, a 45-year-old mother of three from the Philippines filed a lawsuit alleging years of sexual abuse and wage theft as a live-in domestic worker for
SF News 'No On F' Headquarters Defaced By Anti-Airbnb Graffiti (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News Short-Term Rental Law Violators Got Fined $155K Last Month Alone As San Franciscans mull Proposition F, which would overhaul the city's short-term rental laws, perhaps this figure might be taken into consideration. According to a press release the new City Office of Short
SF News Airbnb's $8 Million And More: SF Campaign Fundraising, By The Numbers As things ramp up towards November's election in San Francisco, big money has been flooding in and out of the offices of some hotly-contested (in most cases) local campaigns. Want to take a
SF News SF Couple Leaves For Burning Man And Their Hired Housesitter Airbnb's Their Apartment A San Francisco couple may be pursuing a civil lawsuit after their hired, professional housesitter put their home on Airbnb without their knowledge, while they were away at Burning Man. As the UK
SF News Sue Thy Neighbor: Airbnb Stokes Fears Of 'Lawsuit Vigilantism' In Fight Against Prop F The small print on the new website, No On F, reads "Paid for by SF For Everyone, No on Proposition F, Sponsored and Major Funding by Airbnb." SF For Everyone is, as the
SF News Should Airbnb Have Responded Differently To Madrid Sexual Assault Report? Another week, another horror story about the sharing economy making a victim out of someone somewhere in the world. This time it's the story of 19-year-old Jacob Lopez who traveled to Madrid and
SF News Video: San Francisco Airbnb-er Breaks Into Locked Room, Steals $35,000 Of Host's Stuff [Updated] When an Outer Sunset woman decided to rent her home out via Airbnb, she was likely hoping to make an extra couple hundred bucks. Instead, over $35,000 of her possessions were stolen,
SF News San Francisco's Massive Venture Capital Haul, By The Numbers The San Francisco Business Times reports that venture capitalists are ramping up to drop "dot-com era levels" of dough on US companies by the end of 2015. Unsurprisingly, a lot of that money
SF News It Looks Like We Will Be Voting On Changing The 'Airbnb Law' In November Opponents of SF's short-term rental ordinance, dubbed the 'Airbnb Law,' that was passed by the Board of Supervisors last October, have succeeded in gathering almost 16,000 signatures to get a proposition
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Tent Near Google For $965/Month This week's Apartment Sadness came in via the tip line a couple days ago, and subsequently blew up in the local media for reasons that should be obvious. Some opportunistic 22-year-old dude who
