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Drug-Free Homeless Housing: Virtue Signaling or Finally Growing Some Teeth?
PublishedFor years, San Francisco's approach to homelessness has followed a familiar script: spend enormous sums of money, ask…
The Bay Area's Entry-Level Trap: When $70K Makes You Poor
PublishedLet's run some numbers that City Hall and Sacramento would rather you not think too hard about.
Your Parking Spot Isn't Yours If It's Not in Writing — Welcome to SF Tenant Law
PublishedHere's a scenario that's playing out across San Francisco right now: You've been parking in your building's garage…
Wind Chimes: The Neighbor Dispute That Proves Some People Just Want to Watch the World Jingle
PublishedThere are certain San Francisco neighbor conflicts that are uniquely maddening — not because they're serious, but…
The Great Stockton Migration: When Fiscal Reality Hits the Bay Area Bubble
PublishedThere's a recurring character in the Bay Area story that doesn't get enough airtime: the person who finally does the…
Thinking About Ditching Tokyo for SF? Here's the Honest Math
PublishedA young American expat and his Japanese wife are weighing a move from Tokyo to San Francisco, and the reasons he's fed…
Bay Area Child Care Isn't a Crisis — It's a Policy Failure Decades in the Making
PublishedHere's a fun math problem for Bay Area parents: Take your paycheck.
Treasure Island's Shiny New Condos Have a Glowing Problem — And We Don't Mean the Views
PublishedTreasure Island is having a moment. Sleek new developments, stunning Bay views, and prices that — by San Francisco…
Making $300K and Can't Scrub a Toilet: SF's Shared Housing Hygiene Crisis
PublishedHere's a fun paradox about life in San Francisco: you can be pulling down a quarter-million dollars a year at a Big…
Your Friendly Annual Reminder: The Government Wants Its Cut
PublishedIf you own property in the Bay Area and haven't paid your second installment of property taxes yet — stop reading this…
Dave Eggers Wants to Give SF Artists Free Housing. Let's Talk About It.
PublishedAuthor Dave Eggers — San Francisco literary icon, McSweeney's founder, and apparently housing developer now — is…
SF's Grocery Desert Keeps Growing: Lucky on Fulton Is the Latest Casualty
PublishedSan Francisco is losing another grocery store, and if you live in the Western Addition or NoPa, you already feel the…
When $2,750 for 600 Square Feet Feels Like a Bargain, We Have a Problem
PublishedHere's a snapshot of San Francisco's housing market in 2025: a 27-year-old making $160,000 a year — well into the top…
San Francisco's Apartment Entrances Are Doing the Most — And We're Here For It
PublishedSay what you will about San Francisco's housing market — the prices are absurd, the permitting process could make a…
The Chart That Explains Why Your Engineer Friends Still Have Roommates
PublishedThere's a chart making the rounds that plots SF home prices against SF tech salaries since 2000, and it tells a story…
Wait, Retailers Actually Want to Come Back to Downtown SF?
PublishedFile this under "things we didn't have on our 2025 bingo card." Barnes & Noble, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's are all…
San Francisco Can't Build Housing. Again. Is Anyone Surprised?
PublishedHere's a stat that should make your blood boil: almost no housing is getting built in San Francisco.
From Pirouettes to Python: SF's Strangest Real Estate Glow-Up
PublishedIn a city where housing is scarce and zoning is a blood sport, one property is making a surprisingly elegant…
Palo Alto's Tree-Lined Streets Are Gorgeous — And a Quiet Indictment of How Other Bay Area Cities Spend Your Money
PublishedIf you've ever driven through certain Palo Alto neighborhoods, you know the feeling: towering canopies arching over the…
The American Dream Has a Mortgage It Can't Afford
PublishedEvery generation since the Boomers has been less likely to own a home than the one before it.
Mission District Affordable Housing Finally Breaks Ground — Now Comes the Hard Part
PublishedAfter years of delays — because of course it took years — a major affordable housing project has finally broken ground…
$2,400 Won't Get You a Safe Neighborhood in SF — And That's a Policy Failure
PublishedHere's a fun exercise in San Francisco economics: Try finding a studio apartment for $2,400 a month that doesn't come…
Your Property Tax Bill Is About to Get 10% More Expensive — Here's the Deadline You Can't Miss
PublishedConsider this your friendly — and fiscally responsible — public service announcement: if you own property in California…
Making $75K in San Francisco? The City Considers You Basically Broke
PublishedHere's a fun exercise in government math: the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development classifies an income…