SF News Below-Market Units At Massive Trinity Place Complex Allegedly Being Rented Airbnb-Style The massive Trinity Place development was pushed through the city's bureaucracy over many years, through many fights, by 90-year-old local powerhouse developer Angelo Sangiacomo. When complete it will ultimately contain 1900 units of
SF News Housing Prices Plus Teacher Shortage Equals Bigger Teacher Shortage When San Francisco public schools open two weeks from Monday, will there be enough teachers for our students? KRON 4 is asking, prompted by the news that there are 51 open positions even
SF News [Updated] Hayes Valley-Adjacent Section 8 Project Being Sold To Speculator, Flipped As Market-Rate With $7,000 Rents? We're getting word of a crazy story, without complete details, about a possible pending sale of a Section 8 housing project at 1049 Golden Gate Avenue, near Laguna, that was built with help
SF News Once Again, Someone Blames Progressives For The Housing Crisis If you live in San Francisco, or if you've lived here in the last few years, you've participated in this debate 100 times already. Why do we have an affordability crisis? Because we
SF News This Storage Facility Seeking To Add 'Penthouse' Apartments Is Actually Not Depressing San Francisco, the "City by the Bay," the "Cool, Gray City of Love" where you can soon live in a storage facility. Actually, the news isn't that dour — you'd really be living above
SF News LGBT Seniors To Get Passed Over In Senior Housing Complex Built For Them? The affordable housing development currently under construction at 55 Laguna Street, on the former UC Berkeley Extension campus between Market Street and Haight, is being co-developed by a non-profit that helps find housing
SF News Planning Study: SF Is Losing Affordable Housing Almost As Fast As We're Building It Last week the San Francisco Planning department gave us what the Business Times called a "report card" on affordable housing in its "Housing Balance Report," and if it was indeed that, it was
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
SF News SF Houses Go For $1 Million Over Asking Because Realtors Are Under-Pricing Everything There's a weird psychology happening now around SF's over-heated and wildly expensive housing market. Basically, if realtors put things on the market for what they actually should be priced at, given all the
SF News Gorgeous Residential High-Rise Project Designed By Jeanne Gang Threatened By Art Agnos, Waterfront NIMBYs This fantastic high-rise development proposed for one of the last remaining Transbay District sites at Folsom and Spear is facing some major opposition from former mayor and frequent anti-waterfront-development activist Art Agnos, and
SF News Building Trades Council Takes Stand Against Mission Developer Over Lack Of Affordability A group representing various construction trade unions has taken a surprising stand against one large market-rate rental development slated for 2000 Bryant Street in the Mission, stating in a resolution submitted to the
SF News Housing Startup 'Campus' To Close Its Nearly 30 Co-living Houses Campus CEO Tom Currier has just announced that his fast-growing housing startup will be dissolving, putting in jeopardy its upwards of 150 San Francisco and New York City residents from roughly 30 co-living
SF News Watch SF's Median Home Sale Prices Rise Beyond Your Means, To $1.36M Some new depressing reports have arrived from Paragon Real Estate Group well, I should clarify that these reports are manna from heaven for everyone trying to sell a house or condo in this
SF News Out In The Avenues: Forget That Million Dollar Shack, Here's A Million Dollar Dirt Lot Many of us marveled when a dilapidated shack along Great Highway sold for $1.2 million in March, but most agreed that the value wasn't in the four-bedroom dump in the listing — as
SF News [Update] California Court Says Cities Can Require Developers To Build Affordable Housing A ruling arrived today from the California Supreme Court in a case that supports local ordinances, like the one we have in San Francisco, that requires developers of new market-rate housing to set
Arts & Entertainment The Onion Suggests San Francisco Should Just Move Out Of San Francisco Already The Onion has come around to mocking SF's skyrocketing rent woes. Their solution: Our pretty city by the Bay has "no choice but to look for a spot further inland." To wit: “It
SF News Mayor Lee Ups Housing Bond To $300 Million To Buy Land In The Mission San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced yesterday his intention to increase a proposed housing bond measure from $250 million to $300 million. The Business Times reports that the additional $50 million on the
SF News Campos Called To Task For Saying He's 'Proud' Of 100-Percent Non-Affordable Vida Development Supervisor David Campos was on a KQED radio program recently discussing the proposed moratorium on market-rate housing development in the Mission Scott Wiener was on the program too, arguing the con side. And
SF News Stop Saying That SF's Median Rent Is $4225 Yes, we know that the rental market in SF is crazy, but figures about what the actual median rent is here have been widely exaggerated, misunderstood, and irresponsibly quoted quite often over the
SF News Supervisors Kill Moratorium On Mission Market-Rate Housing, 'This Is Not The End' Says Campos The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted down a proposed temporary moratorium on market-rate housing in the Mission District last night, putting an end to an exhausting eight-hour meeting. Supervisors Mark Farrell, Scott
SF News Breaking: Many Tech Workers Are Being Priced Out Of Bay Area A KPIX headline that's getting splashed around social media since last night proclaims "Even Techies Can't Afford the Bay Area Anymore," but there's a bit more to it than that. As Redfin CEO
SF News Study: NY And SF Rents Are Dragging Down The US Economy A new study by two economists out of UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago suggests that overall national growth, as in the gross domestic product, is being strangled by the insanely high
SF News City To Help Subsidize 'Middle-Income' Rents In New Housing Bond If Mayor Lee's $250 million housing bond measure gets approved by voters in November, there will for the first time ever be public money going to below-market-rate rental housing geared specifically to residents
SF News Both Campos And Guy Vying For His Seat Push To Halt Market-Rate Development In The Mission Dueling paths toward to a potential moratorium on market-rate development in the Mission moved forward this week. One is a two-year, temporary measure that Supervisor David Campos wants to pass via a vote
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Share A Sh**ty Living Room For $1500 When I started writing this column a couple months ago, I didn't expect the sheer volume of depression-inducing examples of sorry accommodations that have come our way, either through quick Craigslist searches or
