SF News Big Empty Parking Lot At Balboa Park Station To Become Affordable Housing In a move that should never have taken this long, a sizable, city-owned parking lot next to the Balboa Park BART station in the Excelsior is moving forward to be developed as 80
SF News <i>Times</i> Weighs In On SF's Crazy Local Election; Yes On F People Vow To Bring Measure Back In 2016 As SFist has been trying to tell anyone who'll listen, despite the fact that we aren't even reelecting Nancy Pelosi in this one and the mayor pretty much has it in the bag,
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 Mission To Lose 8,000 Latino Residents By 2025, Report Warns If trends as we know them continue, the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office predicts that, as a proportion of the Mission District, the percentage of Latinos will decline from 48 percent in
SF News 44 Units Planned For Nob Hill Parking Lot That's Been 'Temporary' Since 1973 Until 1970, 875 California Street was a five-story building operated by then Mayor Joseph Alioto and his wife Angelina. The Chronicle remembers that the family tore down the structure with hopes of building
SF News The Real Story Of The Great Highway Shack That Sold For $1.2 Million Is Priceless $1.2 million, 13 offers, $400K above asking. But a new story about the sale of the shack at 1644 Great Highway — a "sure flip" — flips the script entirely. What many thought was
SF News SoMa Community Groups File Appeal Against Big 5M Development Claiming that developers and the city have teamed up to fast-track a massive, improperly zoned SoMa development on 5th and Mission Street, a group of protesters gathered this morning at the San Francisco
SF News Local Software Engineer Lives In A Van Because She's Too Frugal To Pay High Rent An employed tech worker who recently moved to the Bay Area decided that rents were too high and her housing options were on the lower end of the spectrum were too depressing, so
SF News The Mission Moratorium (Sort Of) Explained At Yesterday's City Hall Press Conference Yesterday was a big day for advocates of Proposition I, otherwise known as the Mission Moratorium, as proponents of the controversial measure took to the steps of City Hall to make their case
SF News Now Mayor Lee May Be Vetoing Jane Kim's Tenant Protection Legislation Remember that new tenant-protection ordinance introduced by Jane Kim and passed by a majority of the Board of Supervisors that would make it easier to add new roommates and harder to get evicted?
SF News San Francisco Has Always Been A Pretty Expensive Place To Live Lots of people have lots of memories of cheap apartments and cheap burrito dinners in the Mission of the 1990's. And while there have been eras of relative stability in San Francisco when
SF News Many More Families Living In Tiny SRO Units Than There Were A Decade Ago Just another depressing local real estate factoid to kick off your week: According to a new census by the SRO Families United Collaborative, there's been a 55 percent uptick in the number of
SF News Supervisors Debating Affordable Housing Density Bonuses Today As discussed last month, the Board of Supervisors today is debating an affordable housing density-bonus program, endorsed by the mayor and drafted by Planning. The deal for developers, as anticipated: Receive two extra
SF News Report: Flood Of Venture Capital Funding Is To Blame For High Rents San Francisco rent is sky-high. San Francisco also receives gobs of the nation's share of venture capital dollars. Coincidence? Zumper, itself a venture-backed real estate website aimed at apartment seekers and renters, thinks
SF News Adding Roommates Made Easier, Evictions Made Harder After Board Of Supervisors Vote The Board of Supervisors took an extra step in tenant protections at Tuesday's meeting, voting to approve new legislation that makes it more difficult for landlords to evict tenants for minor violations, or
SF News Do More Tech Shuttle Stops Lead Directly To Higher Rents And More Evictions? Tensions over tech shuttles live on, surprisingly or unsurprisingly depending on where you stand on the "San Francisco has been destroyed" vs. "all change is good change" spectrum. And now anti-shuttle and anti-eviction
SF News Fate Of Biergarten Not Guaranteed As City Officials Argue Over Need For Housing On The Property Two years ago, and as recently as last month, we were under the impression that the popularity of 2011-built Hayes Valley "cargo-tecture" complex collectively known as Proxy guaranteed its existence through 2021. But
SF News City Report Says Moratorium Won't Help Mission affordable housing advocates are going to want to take a new report from the city's chief economist that says the proposed moratorium on market-rate housing isn't going to do anything to stem
SF News Oaklander Rails Against Gentrification, Tells Newcomers To Stop Moving There A short screed on Craigslist is making the rounds [Ed. Note: The post was removed, but it's screencapped below], posted in the Rooms & Shares section for Oakland, titled "STOP MOVING TO OAKLAND.
SF News 'Beast On Bryant' Gets Stalled After Community Pushback A second big proposed development, and the second largest to have brought the ire of Mission activists fighting for more affordable housing, has been stymied in seeking its approvals from the Planning Commission.
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 Advocates Want 16th And Mission Site To Become 100 Percent Affordable, But It Probably Won't Following on last week's news that the so-called 'Monster in the Mission' could be doomed due to a legal dispute between the landowner and the developer, opponents of the project jumped for joy,
Arts & Entertainment At Least We Don't Have To Worry About Glenn Beck Moving To San Francisco Thank god for conservative commentator Glenn Beck! He might have just solved San Francisco's housing shortage, by stopping those who would move here in their tracks. Beck, who left Fox News in 2011
SF News If You've Got $3,000 A Month To Spend On A Studio, There Are Now Hundreds To Choose From All those construction cranes you've seen across the city the past couple of years are finally resulting in a ton of new housing, however it's still not enough to satisfy demand and it's
SF News Will The Sunset Finally Get Housing Density? The Board of Supervisors is set to debate and potentially pass some new legislation this fall that would allow for so-called "density bonuses" in neighborhoods where not a lot of housing density currently
