SF News Exclusive: How City Hall Actually Thinks It Can Get More Affordable Housing Built Those of you who voted earlier this month approved Prop K, a housing "ordinance" accurately described by the League of Pissed-Off Voters as a “non-binding pinky swear" of a ballot measure. The proposition
SF News Video: TechCrunch and AOL Commissioned This Housing Crisis Film Since when did AOL and TechCrunch inherit the mantle of the Bay Guardian? Just kidding, but they did commission this video from Stateless Media about San Francisco's housing crisis titled "You Can't Go
SF News SoMa SRO Damaged In 2011 Fire Illegally Turned Into Tech Worker Co-Op The former SRO at 1040 Folsom Street, which was heavily damaged in a three-alarm fire in May 2011, was quietly turned into one of those modern communes we've been hearing so much about,
SF News Confirmed: Condo Developer Cuts Deal To Avoid Affordable Housing Requirement If you're wondering whether Mayor Ed Lee's affordable housing ballot measure, Prop K, is going to mean anything, critics will be quick to point to a recent negotiation with a big developer as
SF News Median One-Bedroom Rent In S.F. Is Now $3,200 The "real estate is crazy" angle is getting tired, I know. And remember how a few months ago we were saying, "Oh, maybe there's no real reason to panic about rents?" Well, we're
SF News Ellis Act Payout Foes Vow To Take Case To Supreme Court Lawyers representing a coalition of developers and small-time landlords were in court yesterday arguing this case we previously reported on regarding Ellis Act payouts to tenants. The lawsuit is challenging the City of
SF News Almost Half Of Newly Built Condos In S.F. Are Second Homes For Peninsula Wealthy, Others Anecdotally most of us have understood for years that the San Francisco luxury condo market is attracting buyers from afar in search of second or third homes or pied-a-terres, much like the Manhattan
SF News Have The New S.F. Tenant Protection Measures Done Any Good? It may be too soon to tell if any of the laws passed in the last two years protecting tenants and making evictions more expensive for landlords will ultimately have an impact on
SF News Condo Prices Might Actually Be Starting To Come Down In some proof-positive of the law of supply and demand, prices of newly constructed condos in San Francisco actually came down 3 percent in July. The latest monthly report from The Mark Company
SF News Everyone Hoping To Avoid a Jane Kim vs. Ed Lee Housing Battle At the Ballot Box As discussed earlier, Supervisor Jane Kim and Mayor Ed Lee have proposed dueling ballot measures to deal with the city's housing crisis which are both set to go on the November ballot. Kim's
SF News TechCrunch Writer Has Another Solution To Our Housing Crisis TechCrunch writer Kim-Mai Cutler, who was responsible for the widely shared April piece "How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained)," is back with a new piece that's
SF News San Francisco Mocked For Once Again Limiting Housing Development This is the headline from a Washington Post blog yesterday: "Voters in one of America’s most expensive cities just came up with another way to block new housing." As you may or
SF News New SoMa Development Is Like a Fancy SRO For The Middle Class The developers of a new communal-living development at Harrison and 12th consisting of 235 studio units divided into nine separate "houses" insist that it won't just be for students and young tech workers.
SF News Bay Area Resident's "Strongly Worded Letter" Receives Promising Response From BoA Execs San Francisco resident Mary Schmidt penned an eloquent open letter to Bank of America last week pleading with the bank to stop their plans to foreclose on her family's home. The letter quickly
