SF News Everyone Thinks Airbnb's New Logo Looks Like A Vagina (Except Airbnb) [Updated] Update: There's already a Tumblr dedicated to illustrating the new Airbnb logo in compromising positions. NSFW! Today Airbnb unveiled its new logo, which you can see above, and the consensus on Twitter is
SF News AirBnB's Impact On S.F., By The Numbers There's no doubt that AirBnB has had a significant impact on tourism in San Francisco, allowing a bevy of young, corporate-hotel-eschewing tourists to "borrow" the apartments of actual San Franciscans and live life
SF News New Ballot Initiative Could Stifle Airbnb In San Francisco A new ballot initiative hopes to limit Airbnb rentals to neighborhoods zoned for commercial use and provide incentives for people to rat out neighbors renting apartments in violation of the new regulations. The
SF News City Attorney Makes Examples Of Two Greedy, Eviction-Happy Landlords Just as that compromise legislation regarding short-term rentals like Airbnb makes its way through Board of Supervisors approvals, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is taking two landlords to task for doing something the new
SF News Have AirBnB, Lyft, Etc. Made Us More Trusting? Once upon a time, everyone thought that online dating was only going to lead to more serial killers. But now we know better: There aren't any more serial killers than there were before,
SF News Chiu's AirBnB Compromise Goes Before Supes Today At today's Board of Supervisors meeting, David Chiu's new proposed law will go to a vote, solidifying AirBnB as a legit business, but also keeping too much of San Francisco's precious housing stock
SF News San Francisco Going After Airbnb Hosts Even as San Francisco works with Airbnb and other short-term rental services to extract the city's share of taxes, the city itself and local landlords are cracking down on laws that make it
SF News Airbnb To Start Collecting Hotel Tax In San Francisco In a move that will bring in millions of tax revenue for the city, Airbnb has agreed to collect the same 14 percent hotel tax as San Francisco hotels, starting this summer. San
SF News Tenant Claims He Was Evicted So Landlord Could Get Into AirBnB Racket Former Russian Hill resident and current Chronicle article subject Chris Butler claims his landlord gave him the boot after nearly ten years in his apartment, in order to rent out two units on
Arts & Entertainment Hot Airbnb Item: Live In A Van For $520/Month As noted on Uptown Almanac, this harrowing Airbnb ad wants you to live in a van--a van--on Mission Street for only $520 a month (or $480 a week). Behold: I have a 1990
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There Is 'An AirBnB For Meals' Now Of course there is. This Sharing Economy thing — which is hotter than, like, food trucks right now — continues to turn every empty guest bedroom, unoccupied car seat and idle hand into something actually
SF News Nerds' Newest Ventures: 'Hacker Hostels' While the newly rich continue to gobble up overpriced real estate in San Francisco proper, the budding young entrepreneurs who continue to flock to Silicon Valley, heads all filled with Zuckerberg dreams, are
SF News Airbnb The Latest Tech Company To Sign Big Lease In SoMa Airbnb, the legitimate way for people to get cash for letting people crash on their couch, just signed a 10-year lease in the Giftcenter building at 888 Brannan, for a space that's about
SF News S.F Mulls Taxing Things Like Air BnB, 'Cottage Industries' Late last week we heard that City Treasurer Jose Cisneros had heeded the call of hotel unions and the Tenants Union to impose the city's 14% hotel tax on AirBnB rentals. Now we're
SF News AirBnB Ransacking Victim Has a Character Witness More brief updates today in the ongoing story of EJ, the woman with the harrowing AirBnB hosting experience. In only her second blog post since she originally detailed the incident at the end
SF News Possible AirBnB Ransacking Suspect is in Custody in Santa Clara A suspect who was mentioned, but not identified, in the AirBnB case might be a 19-year-old woman from the peninsula the Examiner reports. SFPD couldn't confirm whether Faith Clifton of Belmont was the
SF News AirBnB Responds to Safety Concerns, Ransacking Victim Still Concerned for Her Safety After the story of a harrowing AirBnB hosting experience broke wide last week, both the victim Emily/E.J. and the company's CEO Brian Chesky have seen fit to respond with their respective
SF News San Francisco Woman's Apartment Ransacked by Seemingly Cordial AirBnB Renter A San Francisco woman who rented out her apartment on AirBnB, a service that allows people to rent out their spare rooms or entire apartments as vacation rentals without the icky feeling that
