SF News San Francisco Metro Area Population Grew By 60,000 Last Year It's been said often enough that San Francisco has been in the midst of a population boom the likes of which it hasn't seen in decades, something to the tune of 10,000
SF News Supervisors Move Forward With Eviction Protection For Teachers A San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee gave its seal of approval this week to legislation that would protect teachers, school employees, child caregivers, and their families from evictions during the academic year.
SF News Venture Capital Gets Into The 'Dorms For Grown-Ups' Business Though moving into San Francisco can be seemingly impossible, and deeply saddening and dignity-reducing task, many young people are still managing to do it. And now, as the Wall Street Journal reports, venture
SF News Poll: 51 Percent Of San Franciscans See City Headed In Wrong Direction Sadly, that New York Times article about the state of affairs in formerly magical San Francisco — a place where longtime residents are now begging for an end to the madness of the boom
SF News Planning Commissioner Loses It On Twitter Over Gawker's SF Housing Scold Last week, here on SFist, I got a little mad at Gawker editor Hamilton Nolan for stepping into a discussion about San Francisco's housing crisis a discussion in which he really does not
SF News Now Gawker Scolds San Francisco For Not Building Enough Housing OK, can we all agree that, at the very least, New Yorkers and Angelenos can stop telling us how stupid we've been, collectively, as the city of San Francisco in not preparing for
SF News Landlord Now Attempting Mass Ellis Act Eviction At 84-Unit Mid-Market Building The two-and-a-half-year-old saga of 1049 Market Street continues this week as the landlord, at this point desperate to convert his half-empty residential property into office space, is invoking the Ellis Act after all
SF News Threatened Eviction Of 97-Year-Old Woman Prompts Community Outpouring Marie Hatch is 97 years old, currently fighting cancer, and has lived in the same Burlingame home for 66 years after her original landlord and friend promised her a lifetime lease. Now, thanks
SF News Photo Du Jour: Sign Of The Times Spotted in Duboce Park at the foot of Steiner. No, we don't know what's happened here: All we have to go on is this striking image of a serene day and a clearly
SF News Tech Shuttle Protest Blockades 24th Street Activists hold signs in front of tech shuttle buses that read "Save Our Homes" in protest of high rents in SF. pic.twitter.com/QflNcewYM8— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) February 9, 2016 A
SF News Campos Wants To Protect SF Teachers From Eviction Thanks to @DavidCamposSF and @HillaryRonen for introducing legislation to stop mid school year educator evictions! pic.twitter.com/BVUUPyLLn0— UESF (@UESF) February 2, 2016 Supervisor David Campos this morning introduced new legislation with
SF News Study: Airbnb Makes Over A Fifth Of Its SF Revenue From Illegal Units A new study released this month claims that over a fifth of the revenue generated in San Francisco by Airbnb is the result of hosts operating in direct violation of San Francisco law.
SF News Planning Commission Approves New Interim Restrictions On Mission District Developments The San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously approved new interim controls on Mission District developments on Thursday. That means, for the next 15 months, any project over 25 units or 25,000 square feet
SF News Bayview Pastor Arrested In Home After Protesting Eviction #pastordorn Sheriff's Chaplain and community leader arrested for resisting #eviction #blackhomesmatter pic.twitter.com/w0VBEkYVAH— Save Midtown (@savemidtown) January 14, 2016 A Bayview pastor was arrested yesterday for refusing to leave the home
SF News Two Sunset Families May Lose Their Apartments Due To Shady Landlord Tactic Two separate groups of Sunset renters are at risk of losing their apartments after what appear to be some shady moves by the building's new owner. One of the renters has filed an
SF News Another Housing Argument: Greater Density Does Not Mean Cheaper Units A new study published by the Center for Demographics and Policy titled "Building Cities for People" presents a new wrinkle in the age-old argument about supply and demand when it comes to dealing
SF News Jane Kim Proposes Doubling Affordable Housing Requirement To 25 Percent Supervisor Jane Kim today introduced a charter amendment with the goal of asking San Franciscans to rethink affordable housing requirements for market-rate developments in several ways. The most significant of which would be
SF News Report: Millennials Totally Screwed When It Comes To Buying Property You want a house in San Francisco? Good luck. But a new report shows just how screwed the current market leaves one particular group of wage-stagnant residents — Millennials. Data published by the finance
SF News Pro-Development Group Loses Bid To Take Over SF Sierra Club A Bay Area pro-development political action committee failed in its recent effort to take over the San Francisco chapter of the Sierra Club. San Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation (SFBARF) accused the Sierra
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky Penny To Close For Good On Christmas Eve — Then This The hour draws nigh for Lucky Penny. Yes, at the intersection of Geary and Masonic, the old-school, late-night, sometimes iffy diner's time has unfortunately run out, which Hoodline reports and recent Yelpers corroborate.
SF News Protesters Go 'Caroling' At Mayor Lee's House "In his five years reign as mayor, Ed Lee gave to me," protesters on the Mayor's own doorstep sang new lyrics to the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas" this Saturday. "A
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 Supervisor Peskin Moves To Expand Rent Control To Newer Buildings Supervisor Aaron Peskin is gearing up to draft legislation that would expand rent control to properties built after the current 1979 cutoff. Working with the City Attorney's office, Peskin is exploring a trade-off
SF News Listing For $500-A-Month Crawl Space Is Real, And People Want To Rent It Look, we get it: There are a lot of people in the Bay Area who really, really need a place to live. There are equally a lot of people attempting to capitalize on
SF News Landlords Try To Gut Roommate Provision In New Tenant Law Via The Rent Board, Fail The somewhat controversial provision in a new tenant-protection ordinance passed by the Board of Supervisors and sponsored by Jane Kim that allows tenants to add roommates in a unit up to those set
