SF Politics Board of Appeals Weighs In on Saga of Vacant, Apparently Unclaimed Mission District Lot, Tells Supes to Act The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Wednesday tossed out a permit that had been granted to local internet business Monkeybrains to put up a fence on one side of a lot adjacent to their building at 22nd and Treat.
Business & Tech There Are Currently 15 Salesforce Towers Worth of Empty Offices In San Francisco You've been hearing for over a year from the businesses downtown that used to host busy lunch crowds and happy hour hordes that the area is a ghost town most days. But it's not just because the companies that are still there are letting everyone work from home.
SF News 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?
SF Politics An ‘Empty Homes Tax’ Could Be Coming to Your November Ballot Amidst a recent uproar that nearly 10% of San Francisco housing stock is just sitting vacant, supervisors Dean Preston kicked off a campaign to get a vacancy tax on this November’s ballot.
