SF News Study: NY And SF Rents Are Dragging Down The US Economy A new study by two economists out of UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago suggests that overall national growth, as in the gross domestic product, is being strangled by the insanely high
SF News City To Help Subsidize 'Middle-Income' Rents In New Housing Bond If Mayor Lee's $250 million housing bond measure gets approved by voters in November, there will for the first time ever be public money going to below-market-rate rental housing geared specifically to residents
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Furnished Hovel With Stripper Pole, No Actual Kitchen, $1785 I don't even know what to make of this Lower Nob Hill sublet that appears to be the current home of of either a) a very messy hooker, or b) a self-employed businesswoman
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Tenderloin Basement Of Your Dreams Try to imagine the kind of apartment where, in fiction or in a tabloid murder, the school custodian who is also a pedophile would live, and you might come close to this little
SF News Bay Area Officially Named The Worst Place For Renters (Again) In Forbes' annual ranking of the worst cities in the country for renters, not one but three Bay Area cities now take the top three slots: San Jose (#3), Oakland (#2), and of
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF's Comedic Apartment-Hunting Anthem Chris Severn, who tells SFist he's just getting his sketch group DeskFan Comedy off the ground, is clearly no stranger to apartment hunting or its attendant apartment sadness. So, in a song that's
SF News Mayor's Office Thinks $2700 Studio Is 'Affordable' In the ongoing absurdist saga of SF's rental market, we have a snapshot of what the Mayor's Office would consider "middle income" housing the type of income-restricted housing that's "affordable" to people who
SF News Rents May Go Down For Apartments and Offices According To New Report According to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) based on responses from real estate investors, coupled with data from commercial real estate brokerages, we can expect a slowdown in rental growth in office and
SF News Landlords Now Suing Over Tenant Buyout Law As the Board of Supervisors tries valiantly to push back against the market forces that are displacing many tenants in rent-controlled apartments across the city, landlords and the industry group the San Francisco
SF News Mark Leno Once Again Proposes Bill To Slow Down Ellis Act Evictions In a third attempt at curbing speculative Ellis Act evictions by opportunistic investors, state senator Mark Leno is introducing a bill this session, similar to one that failed to pass last year. The
SF News Campos Calls Wiener 'The Ghost Of Ronald Reagan' In Re: Housing Policy On this week's episode of Board of Supervisors Inside Baseball, we have a little bit of a scuffle happening between Supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener. After Wiener unleashed a barbed essay earlier
SF News Is The Answer Simply More Housing, Or More Affordable Housing? The Debate Rages On. After Supervisor David Campos last week started suggesting that the Mission neighborhood might need a moratorium on new market-rate housing construction, the debate has been reignited again over whether our housing crisis is
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Residential Hotel Edition There was a time when SROs and "residential hotels" were only for the truly poor, addicted, and downtrodden. Not anymore! Now, some have spiffed up and are advertising on Craigslist along with everyone
SF News Oakland Rents Are The Second-Fastest Growing In America The price tag on those greener pastures east of San Francisco has been getting a serious markup. According to a report from local real estate site Trulia, rents in Oakland have increased 12.
SF News Amended Ellis Act Relocation Law Caps Landlord Payouts At $50K Supervisor David Campos has come back to the Board with a new, dialed back version of the Ellis Act payout legislation that was previously passed and took effect last summer only to be
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Abandoning Housing For A Tent Well, for this edition of Apartment Sadness, I bring you not another Craigslist ad for a ridiculously sad living space, but a tale of sadness from a "full-time employed programmer" on Reddit who
SF News Open-Minded Straight Guy Sought For Cheap Dom-Sub Living Situation In Noe Putting the "sub" in "sublet," a man recently posted to Craigslist about an "ideal living situation for [a] dominant, open-minded/selfish str8 guy!" Sure, in this market, $650 a month for a room
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 280-Square-Foot Sunset 1-Bedroom For $1280, Or Is It a Studio? As of today, I'm moving our Apartment Sadness column out of the News category and into Arts & Entertainment, because I'm pretty sure these posts are just being enjoyed for a dose of
SF News Apartment Sadness: 225-Square Foot Mini-Studio With Bunk Bed Goes For $1750/Mo Remember the sad Noe Valley "mini-studio" from three weeks ago that was going for $1425/month? Well, it gets worse. Over near Duboce Park, as Curbed shows us, you could have nine more
SF News Rents In The Mission Went Up 20 Percent This Year My wish for 2015 is that we won't all spend whole minutes of every single day bemoaning the latest horrifying figures about the SF rental market, but perhaps the only way that wish
SF News Apartment Sadness: 216-Square-Foot Mini-Studio Hits Market For $1425/Month If you would like to live alone in Noe Valley, you have no furniture besides a bed, and you're a relatively tiny person who does not cook and owns no clothes, I've got
SF News New SoMa Micro-Apartment Complex, The Panoramic, Already Mostly Leased As Student Dorm Space A new batch of micro-apartments in SoMa (remember those?) will be hitting the market around June 2015, called The Panoramic. Located at 9th and Mission, the building has already been largely leased out
SF News New Map Shows How Expensive It Is To Rent An Apartment Near BART Click to enlarge It's no longer true that if you get priced out of San Francisco you can just move east as we learned last week, rents in Oakland are actually shooting up
SF News Four Longtime Tenants Vow To Fight Ellis Eviction From Rube Goldberg Building In Hayes Valley Four tenants in two units where the rents are $1,200 and $1,300 a month, at Gough and Oak Streets, are fighting to stay put as their landlord is attempting to evict
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
