SF News Alameda County Is So Hot Right Now As everyone's neighbor, friend and coworker packs up and ships out, overwhelming anecdotal evidence that everyone is moving to Oakland is now confirmed by hard numbers. Alameda and Santa Clara counties gained more
SF News There's A New Style Of Commune Living In S.F., For Those Who Never Want To Be Alone Likely inspired by this story about the new communal living development going up at Harrison and 12th, the NYT today jumps on the bandwagon with S.F.'s new-style commune scene. The euphemism
SF News Board Of Supes Passes Two Measures Aimed At Preserving Rental Stock At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, two measures drawn up by Supervisor John Avalos aimed at increasing and preserving the city's stock of rental apartments passed unanimously on initial vote. One measure eases
SF News 'This Is A City For The Right Kind Of People,' Screams (FAKE) Google Employee To Protester [Update] In a video taken at Monday morning's Google bus protest in the Mission District, SF Bay Guardian reporter Joe Fitz Rodriguez captured a heated exchange* between an alleged Google employee and a protester.
SF News New SoMa Development Is Like a Fancy SRO For The Middle Class The developers of a new communal-living development at Harrison and 12th consisting of 235 studio units divided into nine separate "houses" insist that it won't just be for students and young tech workers.
Arts & Entertainment Would You Compete In A Wet Undies Contest To Get $400 Rent? It's now come to this. A group of (obviously gay) young gentlemen in the vicinity of the Tenderloin are advertising on Craigslist this week for a new male roommate. They aren't requiring candidates
SF News Art Agnos: 'It's All But Over For The Poor In This City' We've said it several times, and now progressive former mayor Art Agnos chimes in for NPR in a national story about how shitty San Francisco's real estate market now is for the middle
SF News It's Official: This Boom Is Bigger Than The Last Boom, At Least For Office Space In the past three years alone, as the Chron is reporting via a new report by CB Richard Ellis, tech companies have leased 40% more office space than in the entire five-year period
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On Dolores: Insane New Home Redefines 'Median Rent' In Noe Valley, where home prices are soaring, some merry pranksters are taking the term "Median Rent" literally with this cozy-looking statement that popped up in the middle of Dolores Street. Frankly, we're
SF News Willie Brown Has Some PR Advice For The Tech Industry; NYT Discovers The Tech Boom Backlash Willie Brown's Sunday column in the Chron turns out to have been kind of prescient with regard to the tech industry's growing PR problem. Just as he was suggesting that tech company's start
SF News Majority of San Franciscans Say 'Build More Housing' A new poll conducted using a "demographically representative" group of 630 San Francisco voters found that a vast majority, 68 percent, feel that more housing development is the solution to the city's current
SF News Middle Class Screwed In Current S.F. Housing Market As we all know and have talked endlessly about for several years, getting a decent apartment in San Francisco is damn near impossible unless you make a six-figure income, preferably upwards of $150,
SF News Campos Holds Hearing On Ellis Act Evictions; Mayor Ed Lee Gets On Board With Legislation We told you last week that Supervisor David Campos is pushing the City Attorney to draft legislation that would create a greater disincentive to landlords considering Ellis Act evictions. Yesterday Campos held a
SF News New Census Numbers Confirm That Yes, In Fact, Rents In S.F. Are Ridiculous Once again we return to everyone's favorite conversation topic, which is becoming akin to talking about the "dry heat" in Arizona and saying things like "all politicians are crooks and morons." All together
SF News S.F. Rents Are Up 10% From Last Year San Francisco residents have long bemoaned the rising cost of rentals, and now there's word that the increase may be worse than you thought: in the past year alone, rents have risen a
SF News Supervisor Campos To Introduce Anti-Eviction Legislation Supervisor David Campos revealed over the weekend that he plans to introduce some new legislation to counteract the eviction trend. He's hoping that a new law would provide "incentives against the Ellis Act"
SF News Mass Eviction On Mid-Market Put On Hold Pending Planning Review In a small victory for tenants' rights, a mass eviction of more than 100 people from 1049 Market Street has been put on hold as the Planning Department looks into the historic residential
SF News You Can Now Live Above The Dolores Whole Foods For $8,100 Because we always enjoy appalling you this early in the morning, allow us to share some of the pricing details of the new luxury apartment project known as 38 Dolores, otherwise known as
SF News Get Mad Over This: Rent Ad Wants $1075 A Month For You To Sleep On Their Couch [Update] UPDATE: She just knocked down the price to a rock-bottom $915/month. In the esteemed words of Laura Beck, "San Francisco, you have officially lost your goddamned mind." A person posted this Craigslist
SF News Map: Number Of Minimum Wage Jobs Required To Rent In S.F. The S.F. Department of Public Health released a map that shows just how many full-time minimum wage jobs you'd need to rent a 2BR in San Francisco at fair market rates (FMR)
SF News New S.F. Rental Price Map Soaked In The Blood Of Low-Income Renters Set to turn your smile upside down, Trulia just unleashed a new interactive map that shows their median rental price info collected over the last year. And what a map it is. San
SF News Slight Good News: Rents Not Rising So Fast This Year After San Francisco has been decrying the outrageous sums that landlords are now commanding for rental units over the past two years, things finally seem to be simmering down. According to new rental
SF News Oy, Evictions In S.F. Hit 12-Year High The number of evictions across the city have officially returned to dot-com boom levels not seen since 2001 according to new numbers released by the San Francisco Rent Board. During the period of
Arts & Entertainment America's Cup Rental Market Makes Us Seasick Boats! These sea-faring doodads are popular with some people, no? Sources tell us that sailing enthusiasts will be flocking to town come summer for the culmination of the American's Cup contest that's been
