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 Startup Scrapes Tenants' Private Social Media Accounts For Potential Landlords' Use Finding an apartment in San Francisco is already a nightmare for many, but one startup is out to make it even harder. The Washington Post reports that a British startup is promising to
SF News Huge 16th And Mission Project Moves Forward, Again The 380-unit project dubbed by critics and affordable housing activists the "Monster in the Mission" arrived again on the docket at the Planning Commission Thursday, setting off what will likely be a renewed
SF News Report: Denver, Not San Francisco, Is 'Hottest Housing Market' Of 2016 Real estate listing site Redfin says in a new report that despite what you've heard, San Francisco's for-sale housing market is not the hottest in the country — not by a long shot. Instead,
SF News New Airbnb Program Allows You To Report Your Awful Neighbors Airbnb just made it easier to rat out that neighbor of yours whose nonstop Airbnb hosting means a never-ending parade of drunk tourists stumbling in and out of your building. Say hello to
SF News Rival Density Bonus Plans Vie For Support Correction: This post originally stated that Supervisor Peskin's proposal had been killed. It has not been, and this post has been corrected to reflect that. SF Supervisor Katy Tang and Mayor Ed Lee
SF News Bus Stop Ad Suggesting Renters Are Dumb Shockingly Doesn't Go Over Well 10x leverage on housing.Because you're too new to remember. pic.twitter.com/vJVl3sFx8D— Jacob Ma-Weaver (@cablecarcapital) May 21, 2016 No one likes to be told they're stupid, and yet that's exactly what
SF News Gov. Jerry Brown Declares War On NIMBYs And Planning Commissions With New Housing Bill You may have heard some rumblings about this in recent weeks, but Governor Jerry Brown has been pushing through a revision to the state's density bonus program that would potentially wipe out the
SF News This Is What You Learn When You Archive 68 Years Of SF Rental Listings In 1954, San Francisco ran out of large, vacant land tracts to build on. The city realized it was in a housing crisis in 1966, launching a Housing Report that year which continues
SF News New Startup Turns Renting Apartments Into eBay-Like Bidding War A new startup hoping to capitalize on the feeding frenzy that is trying to rent an apartment in San Francisco launches tomorrow, and may succeed in driving Bay Area rents up even higher
SF News Day Around The Bay: AAA Says Marijuana DUI Tests Are Bunk Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A study commissioned by AAA's safety foundation has found
SF News Most Bay Area Homeowners Saw 50 to 100 Percent Increases In Home Value Since 2004 A new interactive map from the Washington Post, illustrating a story about how the nation's economic recovery over the last decade has been far from complete, and heavily weighted toward wealthy areas, is
SF News Poll: One Third Of Bay Area Residents Say They'll Leave Soon According to a new poll by pro-business policy group the Bay Area Council, 34 percent of Bay Area residents are "likely to move out of the Bay Area in the next few years,
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 Most People Have Been Moving To SF From LA, Seattle, And New York They keep on coming: The San Francisco Metro Area saw an influx of 60,000 people last year, indicating that nothing — not nationally scorned housing prices, not reports of the death of our
SF News Report: Over 80% Of Millennials Have Given Up On Ever Owning A Home Here We've heard a lot about how tough the housing situation is in San Francisco, with multiple reports suggesting that one group — the frequently maligned Millennial generation — has it particularly rough. Well, a new
SF News Study: You Need At Least $6 Million To Be 'Wealthy' In The Bay Area A study conducted by wealth management company Charles Schwab has us sighing deeply as we stare into our empty coffee cups this morning. According to 1,001 Bay Area residents aged 21 to
SF News 'Bubble Real Estate' Is An Actual Company, And Its Founder Is A Serial Evictor a little on the nose, guys pic.twitter.com/n2sBcMhlOI— cat ferguson (@biocuriosity) April 12, 2016 If you're like me, you probably did a double take upon seeing the above photo. Depicting an
SF News Oakland City Council Approves 90-Day Pause On Rent Hikes In a move that sounds even more progressive and renter-friendly than San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, Oakland's City Council last night approved a 90-day moratorium on all rent hikes citywide. The vote came
SF News Day Around The Bay: 'New Homes In San Francisco From The Low $1,000,000s' "New Homes in San Francisco, from the low $1,000,000s"#SF #gentrification pic.twitter.com/B2Xe5AGZo4— Joe Fitz Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) April 2, 2016 Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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 Day Around The Bay: Fentanyl Kills Nine More People In Sacramento Experts say the Bay Area is not even close to filling its housing hole, except at the high end of the market, where much of the new construction has taken place. [Chron] Another
SF News Work Begins On Massive Treasure Island Redevelopment Work has begun on a 20-year development project that will radically transform both Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island into something virtually unrecognizable from what we know today. The plan, now two decades
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 Check Out The Huge Retail, Performance, And Residential Project Coming To Candlestick Point Big things are coming to the land that was formerly home to Candlestick Park, and big developer Lennar, who's also developing the adjacent Shipyard with 12,000 residential units, has just received approvals
