SF News Oakland’s Sweeping Affordable Housing Plan Has Produced Zero Units in Three Years A 2016 ‘impact fee’ on market-rate housing was supposed to produce $65 million for 160 new affordable units, but so far has not produced one new affordable unit.
Business & Tech Bernie Bashes Apple’s $2.5 Billion Housing Pledge, Calls It Corporate ‘Hypocrisy’ The Democratic candidate slams Apple for being “corporate tax evaders” who “helped create California’s housing crisis.”
SF News Habitat For Humanity Spends Just $10 To Buy Pleasant Hill Parcel, Will Build Affordable Housing The good folks at Habitat for Humanity just bought this property for a mere ten bucks, and will build seven townhouses for the low-income population.
SF News More Below Market Rate Housing Found Rented Out Illegally We know you don’t always watch the little news video reports we embed in these posts, but you really ought to watch the CBS 5 report above on homeowners scamming the system
SF News Study Shows More People Are Renting In San Jose And San Francisco Despite High Median Rents Following a report from last week about how the San Francisco housing market is "overvalued" and most at risk for a burst in its housing bubble, the Merc shares a new report which
SF News SF Moving Forward With Modular Housing To Help City's Homeless To go with their new plan to help curb homelessness by 50% by 2020, San Francisco is proceeding with a proposal to build modular housing for the homeless at Seventh and Mission. According
SF News 'Overvalued' SF Faces Largest Risk Of Housing Bubble Burst In America Confirming what you may already know, the Union Bank of Switzerland published a report saying that San Francisco is "the most overvalued US urban housing market" out of all regions included in a
SF News City Sues Laundromat Owner Over 'Death Trap' Basement Apartment Excelsior and Outer Mission residents were recently shocked to discover that a popular coin-op laundromat had a secret subterranean basement full of squalid illegal apartments, as reported in May. That laundromat, the Clean
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Ugliest Condo Buildings In San Francisco One thing that San Francisco is most known for is its timeless and gorgeous historic architecture. The Victorian/Edwardian aesthetic that pervades our fair city, with its bay windows, decorative cornices, and detailed
SF News Excelsior Laundromat Exposed As 'Death Trap' With Shoddy, Illegal Apartments In a fairly shocking report even by contemporary SF slumlord standards, the Chron finds that a longtime popular laundromat in the Excelsior has secretly been serving for more than ten years as a
SF News Evictions Down By 21% Since Last Year In First Decrease Since 2010 From the beginning of March 2016 to the end of February 2017, a total of 1,881 evictions notices were filed with the Rent Board, a 21 percent decrease from last year’s
SF News Supervisors Propose Penalties For Wrongful Owner Move-In Evictions Landlords like the one who evicted Angelique Rochelle and her three children from a San Francisco apartment in 2014 under the false pretense of an owner move-in eviction — the landlord simply raised the
SF News A San Francisco Startup 3-D Printed This House In 24 Hours (In Russia) SF-based startup Apis Cor has pioneered a 3-D printing "crane" that is capable of pouring concrete walls for an entire 400-square-foot home in 24 hours. They just completed their first house at a
SF News First Homeless Navigation Center Abandons Permanent Housing Placement Promise The city's first Navigation Center for the homeless, launched in 2015 in the Mission District, is shifting its mandate amid the harsh realities of the homelessness crisis. Originally designed to house its clients
SF News Ethics Commission Fines Broke-Ass Stuart For Misuse Of Funds During 2015 Mayoral Campaign In a matter decided by the Ethics Commission in December, San Francisco media personality Broke-Ass Stuart (whose real name is Stuart Schuffman) will be fined $2,552 for a violation of the San
SF News Academy Of Art, Longtime Zoning Scofflaw, Agrees To $60 Million Settlement With SF In a City Hall news conference announced yesterday and held Monday morning, City Attorney Dennis Herrera delivered the news, leaked early to the Chronicle's Matier and Ross, that Academy of Art University, one
SF News Robot Butler And Real-Time Tenant Tracking Offered At Luxe SF Apartment With numerous over-the-top housing options competing for the dollars of San Francisco's most well paid, The Jasper is doing its best to stand out. And with at least one three-bedroom in the 40-story
SF News Robotic Furniture Coming To SF In Bid To Make Your Cramped Studio A Tad Less Miserable Imagine effortlessly changing your tiny studio apartment from bedroom, to office, to living room — all at the push of a button. The Registry reports that a new company out of Massachusetts is seeking
SF News Mission Housing Development Dropped After Auto Shop Deemed Historically Significant Developers initially intending to turn a Mission District auto shop into 20 units of housing have backed away from that plan following a ruling by the city that the building has historical significance.
SF News Mission District 'Hacker House' Struggles As Even Techies Can't Afford The Rent The story of the long-time resident getting priced out of the Mission District is so common as to be cliché, but the latest twist on the tale proves that even the tech set
SF News Housing Protesters Shut Down Mission Street Thursday @jrivanob Some 150 people here at 22nd and Mission listening to poetry on gentrification, eviction pic.twitter.com/jY5I5F1CDu— Joe Rivano Barros (@jrivanob) November 4, 2016 Traffic came to a halt last night
SF News A 30-Year-Old Tech Billionaire Just Bought SF's Priciest Home Of 2016 A recent home sale in San Francisco grants us a glimpse into the world of the San Francisco super rich. At 2250 Vallejo Street in Pacific Heights, a 7-bedroom home just sold for
SF News Report: Renters Moving To Bay Area Make More Than Renters Already Here Finding a place to rent in the Bay Area is notoriously tricky — anything even remotely affordable seems to get snapped up in the blink of an eye, and it can feel as if
SF News Meg Whitman-Backed Investor Buys Potrero Power Plant Site An investor group backed by failed gubernatorial candidate and Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman just purchased a huge swath of land on the eastern edge of San Francisco, setting the stage for
