SF News Ethics Commission Fines Broke-Ass Stuart For Misuse Of Funds During 2015 Mayoral Campaign In a matter decided by the Ethics Commission in December, San Francisco media personality Broke-Ass Stuart (whose real name is Stuart Schuffman) will be fined $2,552 for a violation of the San
SF News Airbnb Reveals 20% Of SF Listings Are By Hosts Listing Multiple Homes, Vows Crackdown Airbnb has issued a mea culpa of sorts today, and a reversal of some of its previous rhetoric surrounding the issue of hosts who illegally use the platform to turn themselves into small-scale
SF News Airbnb CEO Rented Out His Own Unregistered Airbnb Just last month, People magazine saluted 34-year-old Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky for continuing to generously rent out a couch in his apartment despite having $3 billion to his name. "I still live in
SF News City Cracks Down On Airbnb/VRBO Law Violators, Issues $400,000 In Penalties Though many critics have called the "Airbnb law" that the SF Board of Supervisors passed last year unenforceable, enforcement appears to be ramping up, especially after this past election in which short-term rentals
SF News Planning Commissioner Being Compared To Donald Trump For Calling Prop I 'Reverse Racism' A petition campaign has been launched to remove sole Republican Planning Commissioner Michael Antonini following some statements he made in a voting guide for friends and family about Proposition I, the Mission moratorium.
SF News The Mission And Bernal Voted For Props F And I, But Not So Much Elsewhere It turns out that the majority of Yes on F and Yes on I votes in Tuesday's election came, perhaps not surprisingly, from District 9, which includes most of the Mission and all
SF News 2015 Election Wrap-up: Peskin In, Mirkarimi Out, Props F And I Go Down Congratulations to my new colleague @AaronPeskin! https://t.co/vihBWT3lNF— Jane Kim (@SupeJaneKim) November 4, 2015 Last night was a rollercoaster for political wonks and hardcore progressives in San Francisco, and for everyone
SF News <i>Times</i> Weighs In On SF's Crazy Local Election; Yes On F People Vow To Bring Measure Back In 2016 As SFist has been trying to tell anyone who'll listen, despite the fact that we aren't even reelecting Nancy Pelosi in this one and the mayor pretty much has it in the bag,
SF News 'Yes On F' Supporters (And Brass Band) Protest Loudly In Airbnb HQ Lobby A small village of house-shaped signs pillorying Airbnb's recent ad campaign blunder spun like a massive mobile in the atrium of 888 Brannan, Airbnb headquarters, this afternoon. "Evictions. Love, Airbnb," and "Homelessness. Love,
SF News Here's Why You Need To Vote In Tuesday's Election (And Why Many Of You Won't) A lot of you are probably sick of reading stories about affordable housing, moratoriums on building, Airbnb, and a bizarrely contentious fight over something called District 3, wherever that might be. For those
SF News Video: Actor Danny Glover Shoots Commercial In Support Of Props F And I Award winning actor/San Francisco native Danny Glover has never been one to shy away from public comment on local issues, as you can see from items like his impromptu appearance in a
SF News Passive Aggressive Airbnb Ad Campaign Is Real, And They're Already Taking It Down And Apologizing Chill billboard, @airbnb pic.twitter.com/4QuRJSaG0N— ｊｄｅｎ (@jden415) October 22, 2015 As a couple of images circulated late Wednesday, like this one, of ads in San Francisco purporting to be for Airbnb
SF News 'No On F' Headquarters Defaced By Anti-Airbnb Graffiti (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News Short-Term Rental Law Violators Got Fined $155K Last Month Alone As San Franciscans mull Proposition F, which would overhaul the city's short-term rental laws, perhaps this figure might be taken into consideration. According to a press release the new City Office of Short
SF News Sue Thy Neighbor: Airbnb Stokes Fears Of 'Lawsuit Vigilantism' In Fight Against Prop F The small print on the new website, No On F, reads "Paid for by SF For Everyone, No on Proposition F, Sponsored and Major Funding by Airbnb." SF For Everyone is, as the
SF News And In Other Election News Prop 98? Defeated. The eminent domain reform proposition, which would have seen rent control eliminated in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, failed to win last night. It seems that about 61 percent of
