SF News Startup Scrapes Tenants' Private Social Media Accounts For Potential Landlords' Use Finding an apartment in San Francisco is already a nightmare for many, but one startup is out to make it even harder. The Washington Post reports that a British startup is promising to
SF News 'Beast On Bryant' Approved By Planning Commission, Clearing Way For 335 New Units A massive Mission District housing development was approved last night by the Planning Commission, bringing the contentious project one crucial step closer to completion. Nicknamed the "Beast on Bryant" by those opposed to
SF News Bus Stop Ad Suggesting Renters Are Dumb Shockingly Doesn't Go Over Well 10x leverage on housing.Because you're too new to remember. pic.twitter.com/vJVl3sFx8D— Jacob Ma-Weaver (@cablecarcapital) May 21, 2016 No one likes to be told they're stupid, and yet that's exactly what
SF News This Is What You Learn When You Archive 68 Years Of SF Rental Listings In 1954, San Francisco ran out of large, vacant land tracts to build on. The city realized it was in a housing crisis in 1966, launching a Housing Report that year which continues
SF News CEO Of Apartment-Bidding Startup Blames Game, Not Player Alex Lubinsky, CEO of the instantly infamous rental application and bidding startup called Rentberry, recently confided to Curbed that he overpaid for his apartment in SoMa. By way of defending his service, he
SF News Here's The Condo That Will Replace One Fire-Destroyed Building On Mission A site that has sat empty since a 2014 Mission Street fire destroyed local discount store Big House Inc. may soon be home to a mixed-use condo and retail space. SocketSite reports on
SF News City Suing Academy Of Art Over Their Problematic Real Estate Empire Perhaps spurred to action by last summer's exhaustive reporting by Forbes on the for-profit school's allegedly shady real estate dealings, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera today filed a lawsuit against the Academy
SF News Don't Get Paranoid, But State Bill Would Let Landlords Evict You For Smoking Pot via GIPHY Finding housing in San Francisco is difficult. Finding housing that bears the Craigslist designation "420 Friendly" is not. However, the Weekly writes that you could absolutely be evicted for smoking weed
SF News Poll: One Third Of Bay Area Residents Say They'll Leave Soon According to a new poll by pro-business policy group the Bay Area Council, 34 percent of Bay Area residents are "likely to move out of the Bay Area in the next few years,
SF News Report: San Francisco Rents To Skyrocket 10.5% By Year's End Despite word just last month that rents for one-bedrooms were basically flat, a new report from rental site RentCafe suggests things are about to take a turn for the (even more) pricey. The
SF News Like It Did For Uber Drivers, Treasurer's Office Orders Airbnb Hosts To Get Business Licenses Earlier this month, roughly 37,000 drivers for Uber and Lyft were mailed letters from San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros indicating that, as contractors, they must apply for business licenses to operate
SF News Judge: 99-Year-Old Woman Facing Eviction Can Stay, If She Pays $100K In Legal Fees Deal to allow 99 year old Iris Canada to stay in her SF home hits snag when landlord asks for courtroom apology. pic.twitter.com/ZsIGvqgF5v— Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) April 19, 2016
SF News Report: Over 80% Of Millennials Have Given Up On Ever Owning A Home Here We've heard a lot about how tough the housing situation is in San Francisco, with multiple reports suggesting that one group — the frequently maligned Millennial generation — has it particularly rough. Well, a new
SF News Report: Ellis Act Filings Up 36% As Evictions Hit Six-Year High Evictions are up for the sixth year in a row according to a recently released report from the San Francisco Rent Board. At 2,134, the total number filed between March 1, 2015
SF News One-Bedroom Rents Basically Flat Since Last Year, According To New Map What a fun map! Last June, real estate website startup Zumper put median one-bedroom rents in San Francisco at $3,500, which was up from $3,200 in 2014. Now they're at $3,
SF News Another Bloodless Condo Building Poised To Replace Tower Car Wash While San Francisco remains in desperate need of more vertical housing, it is harrowing to witness the unfurling of such staid, almost intentionally watered-down units pop up around the city. The most recent
SF News Venture Capital Gets Into The 'Dorms For Grown-Ups' Business Though moving into San Francisco can be seemingly impossible, and deeply saddening and dignity-reducing task, many young people are still managing to do it. And now, as the Wall Street Journal reports, venture
SF News 'Mission Realty Bingo' Calls Out Absurd 94110 Real Estate Listings Haven't you always wanted to "find a cultural Mecca?" Or maybe you're more the type searching for "a quietly concealed modern powder room, perfect for guests during an evening of artistic revelry?" No?
SF News Tiny Decrease In SF House Flipping Gives Faint Hope For Cooling Market In what some are hoping is a sign that the San Francisco housing marketing is cooling a bit, the percentage of homes flipped in 2015 represented a decrease over the previous year. Flipping
SF News Campos Wants To Protect SF Teachers From Eviction Thanks to @DavidCamposSF and @HillaryRonen for introducing legislation to stop mid school year educator evictions! pic.twitter.com/BVUUPyLLn0— UESF (@UESF) February 2, 2016 Supervisor David Campos this morning introduced new legislation with
SF News Planning Commission Approves New Interim Restrictions On Mission District Developments The San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously approved new interim controls on Mission District developments on Thursday. That means, for the next 15 months, any project over 25 units or 25,000 square feet
SF News Bayview Pastor Arrested In Home After Protesting Eviction #pastordorn Sheriff's Chaplain and community leader arrested for resisting #eviction #blackhomesmatter pic.twitter.com/w0VBEkYVAH— Save Midtown (@savemidtown) January 14, 2016 A Bayview pastor was arrested yesterday for refusing to leave the home
SF News Two Sunset Families May Lose Their Apartments Due To Shady Landlord Tactic Two separate groups of Sunset renters are at risk of losing their apartments after what appear to be some shady moves by the building's new owner. One of the renters has filed an
SF News Jane Kim Proposes Doubling Affordable Housing Requirement To 25 Percent Supervisor Jane Kim today introduced a charter amendment with the goal of asking San Franciscans to rethink affordable housing requirements for market-rate developments in several ways. The most significant of which would be
SF News Flax Can't Make SF Work Anymore, Will Move To Oakland Embodying the story of the artist that can't afford San Francisco but finds refuge in Oakland, owners of Market Street's Flax Art & Design have announced that the business will move to downtown
