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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room to Become Retirement Room? The Elbo Room is entering what could be its twilight year(s) with current owner Matt Shapiro's lease expiring in November 2015. Now, 647 Valencia Street property owners (and Elbo Room founders) Dennis
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Circolo / Gordon's House Of Fine Eats Space Is On The Market Again In The Mission A space that was home to one of the most popular restaurants of the first dot-com boom, but which has since become a bit of a cursed spot ever since, is on the
SF News S.F.'s New Most Expensive Home Hits Market For $39 Million A Pacific Heights home that only two years ago was purchased for a cool $27 million is getting flipped, with nothing reportedly changed in the interior, for $39 million by its current owners.
SF News Studios In Huge New Complex Between Oak And Fell Will Start At $3,135 Not surprisingly, the enormous, five-story, 182-unit apartment complex that's under construction on the block that was formerly taken up by the Central Freeway on- and off-ramps, between Oak and Fell and Octavia and
SF News Naive Engineer Hopes To Move To Excellent, Crime-Free Bay Area Neighborhood For $1200/Month None of us should be laughing at such things, because obviously if we lived pretty much anywhere else the country besides Manhattan this poor guy's requests would seem perfectly sane and reasonable. But
SF News If SF Becomes A City For The Rich, Where Will Their Employees Live? A part of a program on America's increasing urbanization, Huffington Post Live spoke with Gen Fujioka, the public policy manager at the Chinatown Community Development Center, on how " increasing urbanization in cities like
SF News Ellis Act Payout Law Heads To Ninth Circuit For Appeal City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced late Wednesday that his office would be appealing a federal judge's ruling that struck down the recent San Francisco ordinance requiring large lump-sum payouts to tenants evicted under
SF News Ellis Act Tenant Payouts Ruled Illegal A federal judge has struck down San Francisco's progressive legislation that counteracts the increased use of the Ellis Act to evict longterm tenants, as the Chron and others are reporting. In a ruling
SF News Developer Moves Forward With Enormous 5M Project At 5th and Howard Forest City Development, which is also developing the massive Pier 70 project that you'll be voting on in November, has unveiled details this week of another huge project they have planned for the
SF News Big, Dilapidated, Historic Alamo Square Manse Goes On The Market For $6.6 Million A historic, 8,000-square-foot mansion just off of Alamo Square, at 930 Grove Street, has just hit the market for a cool $6.6 million. For a trophy house of this size, as
Arts & Entertainment Teatro ZinZanni Finally, Maybe Headed Back To S.F. Waterfront... In A Few Years Three years have already passed since the zany, circus-meets-cabaret-dinner-theater Teatro ZinZanni had to pack up its tent on Piers 27-29 to make way for the America's Cup and now the permanent cruise ship
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hilarious: Prankster Posts Fake Hooters Permit Application In Noe Valley Noe Valley residents had a collective coronary over the weekend after this apparently fake liquor license transfer application for "Neighborhooters" went up on the boarded up former Bliss Bar at 4026 24th Street.
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 16 Squatters Kicked Out Of Vacant $2.6 Million Fulton Street Apartment Building "A well-organized squatting operation" has been cleared from a building on a popular stretch of Fulton Street, just across from the Lucky Supermarket at Fulton Street and Masonic Avenue. According to the San
SF News Larry Ellison Will Either Save Or Destroy That Hawaiian Island He Bought, It's Still Unclear Just last week we were surmising that maybe the huge project of remaking an entire Hawaiian island in his own image was a precipitating factor in Larry Ellison's decision to step down from
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Here's How SF Moved A Bunch Of Houses Across The City Photographer Dave Glass took most of these photos in 1976 and 1977, when, as part of an urban renewal project in the Western Addition, 19th century Victorians were moved across the city to
SF News Big New Condo Building To Tower Over The Grubstake On Pine A twelve-story condo building is slated for approval by Planning in the coming weeks, and it will loom large over the tiny, historic Grubstake though the diner itself is safe for now. As
SF News One Of SoMa's Last Gay Porn Studios Getting Razed To Make Way For Fancy Office Building The former SoMa headquarters of Hot House Entertainment, a popular gay porn brand dating back 21 years, is getting razed to be replaced by a five-story office building, as Curbed reports. The industrial
SF News Big House, Small House: What $5.5M Gets You In Russian Hill Vs. What $2,900/Month Gets You In The Castro A couple of notable price-checks today to make you more depressed about the real estate market: A spacious Russian Hill condo has come back on the market with a small price cut, down
SF News Was It Useful To Protest Evictions At The TechCrunch Disrupt Conference? A group of protesters gathered Wednesday to disrupt, as it were, the final day of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Pier 48 and bring attention to the issues of eviction and gentrification that
Arts & Entertainment If <i>Full House</i> Happened Today, The Tanners Couldn't Afford That House You know how Full House might be getting a revamp? Yeah, well, in today's real estate market, could any of those lovable characters actually afford that lovely Victorian they shared with their adorable
