SF Politics Your November Ballot’s Prop 33 Rent Control Measure Could Repeal Costa-Hawkins Statewide California rent control advocates could score one of their biggest wins ever this November 5 if they pass Prop 33, which would legalize rent control across the state, and effectively repeal the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Act.
SF News Report: SF Rents Still Coming Down, Despite Rents Going Up Pretty Much Everywhere Else Nationwide The San Francisco rental market is still facing a sluggish recovery, which is great news for local apartment-hunters, as the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in SF is now 3.3% lower than it was a year ago.
SF News Bay Area Tenants and Landlords Can Now Apply for Grants to Cover Back Rent From 2020 A state application portal went live Monday for tenants and landlords seeking rental relief grants relating to pandemic hardship — part of a $2.6 billion federally funded aid program in California.
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 Drag Queen Carnie Asada Didn't Know She Was Promoting Condos Made Available By Ellis Act Evictions A San Francisco real estate agent hired drag queen Carnie Asada to star in a video advertising Casa de Dolores, a set of fully renovated condominiums whose developer used the Ellis Act to
SF News Asking Rents In San Francisco Are Down About Two Percent Over Last Year They say that rents, on average, really never go down much in SF, they just plateau. And while many have sensed that we've reached such a plateau over the last two years, thanks
SF News Video: Peek Inside Potrero Hill's Cryptocurrency Commune There's a house full of cryptocurrency gurus in San Francisco, and it's like a modern-day commune from CNBC. A group of cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and enthusiasts live inside a three-story home in Potrero Hill
SF News Previously Homeless SF Math Teacher Finds Home Pretty awful: homeless SF math teacher.https://t.co/cp2TXodKoF— No Politics Retweets (@shabbychef) May 18, 2017 You'll likely recall the Chronicle story from about six weeks back concerning Etoria Cheeks, a teacher
SF News Owner 'Heartbroken' To Shutter 41-Year-Old Sci Fi Berkeley Bookstore And now here's another beloved Bay Area bookstore that has collapsed because of the internet. Berkeleyside brings us the sad news that Berkeley's sci-fi and comic book store Dark Carnival plans to close
SF News Math Teacher At SF Public School Ends Up Homeless, Says 'San Francisco Isn't Geared For Me' Low pay plus high #SanFrancisco housing costs equal 1 homeless math teacher. via @hknightsf https://t.co/uIKS2lGUGG pic.twitter.com/heacnfIkQx— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) May 9, 2017 San Francisco math teacher and badminton
SF News Noted Bad Landlord Anne Kihagi Thrown In Jail In Los Angeles Notorious local landlord Anne Kihagi, who was sued by the SF city attorney two years ago after numerous reports about her shady eviction tactics and unfair treatment of tenants, has now been sentenced
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 Day Around The Bay: Rents Are Down Almost 10 Percent In SF Over 2016 Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A new roundup from apartment rental site Zumper shows
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Sorriest Studio In All Of Presidio Heights The rental market hasn't been quite as nutty in recent months as it was when I launched this column, and many of the tips we've received from loyal readers have either been duds
SF News One In Four Owner Move-In Evictions Could Be Fraudulent According To New Investigation Of the 16 grounds for eviction in San Francisco, among the murkiest is the scenario known as an owner move-in eviction. There, a landlord seeks to relocate themselves or a close relative into
SF News In New Renter Confidence Survey, SF Gets An A-Minus, Oakland Gets An F Let's all read this with healthy skepticism with its presumed biases and unexplained sample size, but a new survey of local renters from the site ApartmentList.com gives San Francisco an overall satisfaction
SF News Oakland Housing Crisis Is Also A Health Crisis, County Health Director Declares Alameda County Public Health Department head Dr. Muntu Davis has declared Oakland's housing crisis a health crisis as well. The East Bay Express writes that Davis is drawing on a new study conducted
SF News Report: SF Rents Are Probably Never Going To Drop With the news that rents in San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland all went down last month, many of us briefly allowed a previously forbidden thought to flicker across our minds: Could the
SF News SF, Oakland, And San Jose Rents All Went Down Last Month Three of the costliest rental markets in the nation — San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose — were all in decline last month according to analysis from Zumper, on whom we have come to rely
SF News Dual Proposals Approved To Curb Oakland Rent Increases In a session that lasted until late last night slash early this morning, Oakland's City Council has unanimously approved two proposals to curtail property owners' ability to raise their tenants' rents. The Associated
SF News North Beach Tenant With Rent Hiked To $8000 Gets Help From Peskin Due to the world's obsession with San Francisco and its crazy rents, a story about one North Beach tenant's rent hike from $1,800 to $8,000 for a rent-controlled one-bedroom has made
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 New Startup Turns Renting Apartments Into eBay-Like Bidding War A new startup hoping to capitalize on the feeding frenzy that is trying to rent an apartment in San Francisco launches tomorrow, and may succeed in driving Bay Area rents up even higher
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 Oakland City Council Approves 90-Day Pause On Rent Hikes In a move that sounds even more progressive and renter-friendly than San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, Oakland's City Council last night approved a 90-day moratorium on all rent hikes citywide. The vote came
