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SF Once Again Playing Chicken With State Over Housing Element, 'Builder's Remedy'

Another deadline looms that could mean the difference between San Francisco officials maintaining planning controls or allowing a free-for-all of development, and it's happening because state housing officials are exerting serious pressure on the city to build more housing.

Depressingly, There Are Enough Vacant Housing Units In SF to House the Homeless Population Eight Times Over

Did you know that there are actually tens of thousands of housing units, rentals included, that are sitting empty on any given day for one of a variety of reasons, and that putting even a fraction of these into service as supportive housing could solve the homeless problem overnight?

Poll Says Nearly Half Of Bay Area Millennials Are Looking To Leave

46 percent of Millennials want out of the Bay Area "in the next few years" according to a poll released today by the business-backed Bay Area Council, and although that may sound like

Another Study Contends SF Housing Would Be Way Cheaper If There Was Less Regulation

A new theoretical look at housing markets around the country suggests what the prices of housing would be if there were less (or no) land regulations things like planning departments and design reviews,

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Throws Money At Bay Area Housing Crisis

Fueling speculation that it might begin funding efforts to allay the Bay Area's housing crisis, representatives from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative met with local housing experts, real estate groups, and academics last summer

Ghost Ship Fire Could Immediately Impact Other Arts Spaces In Bay Area And Elsewhere

With the Ghost Ship master tenant Derick Ion Almena very much in the spotlight following Friday's deadly fire, another, less corporeal object of potential blame has emerged in some circles: the Bay Area

None Of SF's Public Housing Is Publicly Owned Anymore, As Of This Month

It's a story that's playing out in various ways in many corners of the country: Because of severe cuts in federal housing funds that began under President Reagan three and a half decades

Report: Renters Moving To Bay Area Make More Than Renters Already Here

Finding a place to rent in the Bay Area is notoriously tricky — anything even remotely affordable seems to get snapped up in the blink of an eye, and it can feel as if

Report: SF Has Capacity To Add 70,500 Units Under Current Zoning

Paying more for housing in California than you can afford? You're not alone. A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute says that state residents pay $50 billion more for housing per year

Growing Number Of RV-Dwellers In Mountain View Have Homeowners Turning Up Their Noses

As residents of San Francisco battle it out over various proposals to address homelessness and a dearth of affordable housing in the city, our neighbors to the south are engaged in a debate

Judge Grills Airbnb At Hearing Over SF Host Registration Law

Airbnb has taken the city of San Francisco to court over a law requiring that the home-rental service verify its hosts are registered with the city or else face steep fines, but if

Forbes Sure Is Excited About All The 'Ultra High-End Condos' Coming To SF

Smack dab in the middle of a terrible affordability crisis, San Francisco is getting a jolt of what it really needs: ultra high-end condos. Or so argues Forbes, which on Friday published a

Arts & Entertainment

CCA Students Picture A City With 100,000 More Units

Literally drawing on the housing crisis, California College of the Arts students have a new exhibition of somewhat fanciful and often preposterous but visually intriguing designs that would add housing units to San

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

Turn This Nine-Bedroom Dolores Street Home Into An Ersatz Hotel, Says Broker On Craigslist

"Dolores Park, Whole Foods... everything's around here," says real estate Broker Bill Harkins as he introduces possible tenants to 283 Dolores Street in a video tour of the space. But what's going on

Can SF Developers Afford 25 Percent Affordability? City Controller Says No, Others Still Say Yes

In a report that is sure to spark debate for the coming months ahead of the November election, City Controller Ben Rosenfield has completed a feasibility analysis requested by the Board of Supervisors

Governor Brown's 'By Right' Housing Fast-Track Proposal Dead In The Water

A proposal by Governor Jerry Brown to pass sweeping legislation that would speed up residential development across the state by bypassing various local review processes has lost all momentum and appears fully dead,

Palo Alto Planning Commissioner Publicly Resigns Saying She Can't Afford To Live There Anymore

It's a familiar story these days up and down the Peninsula — person gets priced out of the city in which they've lived for years as housing costs skyrocket, and is forced to uproot

Campos Revives Controversial 'Mission Moratorium' Proposal In Scaled-Back Form

You haven't forgotten about the Mission Moratorium, have you? Officially known as Proposition I, the failed measure sought to block construction of all housing in the Mission District for two years that wasn't

New 11-Story Condo Slated For Polk Gulch

More housing is on the way, with SocketSite reporting that a 47-unit Polk Gulch development is poised to be approved this week by the Planning Commission. Designed by JS Sullivan Development, the building

Nine-Story, All Below-Market Complex Likely Headed For Folsom And 17th

Perhaps pointing to the fact that moratorium on Mission development wasn't wholly necessary, there are a total of four fully below-market-rate developments now in the pipeline in the Mission in addition to the

Rally Thursday For 81-Year-Old North Beach Poet Fighting Eviction Since 2013

Diego Deleo was first threatened with an Ellis Act eviction in 2013, a year after the death of his wife. He's been fighting ever since, and this week a rally in North Beach

Data Scientist Writes Uneccessary Program To Find SF Apartment

Vik Paruchuri, who runs a data science tutorial company called Dataquest, was concerned. Moving with his girlfriend from Boston to the Bay Area, how would they find an apartment in one of the

Supervisors Stutter-Step Toward Development Density Bonuses With Approval Of Limited Measure

Just two months ago, with competing proposed housing density bonuses being debated by the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Lee, it appeared as if no progress might get made in the effort to

SF Man Hit With Massive Rent Increase Following Loss Of His Partner To Suicide

These days it seems like each week brings with it another tragic story of someone being forced out of the apartment they call home, and today is no different. The Chronicle reports on