SF News Mayor's Office Thinks $2700 Studio Is 'Affordable' In the ongoing absurdist saga of SF's rental market, we have a snapshot of what the Mayor's Office would consider "middle income" housing the type of income-restricted housing that's "affordable" to people who
SF News Poll Shows 65% Support For Halting Development In The Mission According to a late February survey of 602 likely voters conducted by David Binder and Associates and reported on by the Examiner, 65 percent favor a time-out on “new project approvals in the
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Squalid Living Room And Bunk Bed To Call Your Own Are you on the run from an assault charge and in desperate need of a place to crash? Are you in the witness protection program or escaping an abusive home and seeking a
SF News This Shack Just Sold For $1.2 Million This is not a joke. This is the world we live in. The above, ramshackle, four-bedroom home, albeit with unobstructed views of the ocean along the Great Highway, just sold for $1.2
SF News Rents May Go Down For Apartments and Offices According To New Report According to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) based on responses from real estate investors, coupled with data from commercial real estate brokerages, we can expect a slowdown in rental growth in office and
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Your Very Own Walk-In Closet. No Really. For some reason, these people wanted a roommate by March 15th, and they couldn't find one! I can't figure it out! There's another open house tonight, you guys. Get on this. This spacious
SF News [Update] Lawyer Behind Egregious Bernal Heights Rent Increase Gives Snide Statement Denouncing Rent Control The story that broke earlier this week about the longtime tenant in a Bernal Heights rent-controlled unit has continued to churn, despite the fact that the tenant herself seems to have no legal
SF News Landlords Now Suing Over Tenant Buyout Law As the Board of Supervisors tries valiantly to push back against the market forces that are displacing many tenants in rent-controlled apartments across the city, landlords and the industry group the San Francisco
SF News Here's Why Everyone Needs To Stop Bemoaning A Vanishing San Francisco And Move On When you first fall in love with someone, during that first dizzying, marvelous honeymoon phase, however long it lasts, you and your new love feel like you're always on the same page. You
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A 'Conveniently Located' 170-Square-Foot Illegal In-Law Are you just about done with this life, unable to afford much more than $1000 in rent, and wholly unconcerned with the attractiveness of your surroundings? Allow me to point you to the
SF News Sixth Street Gentrification? Affordable Housing Advocates Fear New 5M Development Will Push Out SROs The enormous new proposed development on property partly owned by The San Francisco Chronicle, dubbed 5M (short for 5th and Mission) has the potential to be transformational for the section of SoMa around
SF News The Latest Chapter In The 1049 Market Saga: New Eviction Notices, Subpeona For Jane Kim The landlord of 1049 Market Street, the building filled with low-rent live-work units that some tenants have lived in over 15 years, appears to be getting desperate, and is going on the offensive
SF News Campos Calls Wiener 'The Ghost Of Ronald Reagan' In Re: Housing Policy On this week's episode of Board of Supervisors Inside Baseball, we have a little bit of a scuffle happening between Supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener. After Wiener unleashed a barbed essay earlier
SF News Is The Answer Simply More Housing, Or More Affordable Housing? The Debate Rages On. After Supervisor David Campos last week started suggesting that the Mission neighborhood might need a moratorium on new market-rate housing construction, the debate has been reignited again over whether our housing crisis is
SF News David Campos Seeks To Possibly Stop Market-Rate Housing Around 24th Street BART One controversial news item this week is talk by Supervisor David Campos of a moratorium on any more new market-rate housing in the quickly gentrifying Mission district something that a lot of people
SF News Pets Fall Prey To SF Housing Crisis A photo posted by Eve Batey (@evelb) on Aug 15, 2014 at 2:17pm PDT Though San Francisco has statistically and anecdotally ranked among the most pet-friendly cities in the country (as well
SF News Even More Teeny Micro-Units Proposed For Hayes Valley Remember those 174-square foot shoeboxes that are going into one of the multiple narrow residential lots along the east side of Octavia Boulevard? Well, the whole stretch is filling out, planning-wise, and now
SF News Here's How Mayor Lee Promises To Ease The Housing Crisis In His 2015 State Of The City Address This morning Mayor Lee delivered his State of the City address at the newly completed Phase 1 of the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market in the Bayview chosen because it's the first new
SF News Apartment Sadness: 225-Square Foot Mini-Studio With Bunk Bed Goes For $1750/Mo Remember the sad Noe Valley "mini-studio" from three weeks ago that was going for $1425/month? Well, it gets worse. Over near Duboce Park, as Curbed shows us, you could have nine more
SF News Day Around The Bay: Protesting In the Rain Despite pouring rain last night, 150 protesters still marched from Berkeley to Oakland, again, and a smaller group blocked traffic on Market Street in SF. [SF Weekly, Chron] Jesse Jackson and some 100
SF News Rents In The Mission Went Up 20 Percent This Year My wish for 2015 is that we won't all spend whole minutes of every single day bemoaning the latest horrifying figures about the SF rental market, but perhaps the only way that wish
SF News Apartment Sadness: 216-Square-Foot Mini-Studio Hits Market For $1425/Month If you would like to live alone in Noe Valley, you have no furniture besides a bed, and you're a relatively tiny person who does not cook and owns no clothes, I've got
SF News Only Six Percent Of New Housing Units In Immediate Pipeline Will Be Affordable To Middle Class Mayor Ed Lee has been making a point this year of addressing the dearth of new housing that's actually affordable to people who make average incomes as opposed to the wealthy or the
SF News New SoMa Micro-Apartment Complex, The Panoramic, Already Mostly Leased As Student Dorm Space A new batch of micro-apartments in SoMa (remember those?) will be hitting the market around June 2015, called The Panoramic. Located at 9th and Mission, the building has already been largely leased out
SF News Four Longtime Tenants Vow To Fight Ellis Eviction From Rube Goldberg Building In Hayes Valley Four tenants in two units where the rents are $1,200 and $1,300 a month, at Gough and Oak Streets, are fighting to stay put as their landlord is attempting to evict
